War is a game to be played with a smiling face. Winston Churchill In 1916 during his four months in the trenches in WWI From the very readable book Churchill by Roy Jenkins. Recommended...Read More
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. Roughly quoting Dante and variously misquoted by JFK, Teddy Roosevelt and others I found it in...Read More
“The pen is often mightier than the sword and the settled habits of a nation mightier than a statute. “ Frederick Douglass From Frederick Douglass Self-Made Man by Timothy Sandefur...Read More
It is Time to Eliminate the Income Tax. The Federal Government needs lots of money and they get most of it through income taxes. Unfortunately income taxes distort behavior, are volatile and are ext...Read More
In the election of 2016 Americans avoided Richard Nixon in a pantsuit by choosing Ronald Reagan in a clown suit. Thank the gods we live in interesting time....Read More
“All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.” Al Smith Here is an idea that might give us better candidates for President. In the last elect...Read More
Would Israel exist if the United States had let in a million mostly Jewish refugees in the 1930’s and 1940’s? Almost certainly not. Israel came to be because of the intense need for a place of...Read More