The Romans
One of my book groups recently read The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather. It was a bit of a slog getting...
Tag: Politics
To Be Young Again
Jim Stillman and Simon Burrow in Schenectady, NY circa 1966 "If you weren't liberal when you were young, you have...
September 13, 2012 Maxim
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt." Herbert Hoover Hoover was President of the US...
Free Ice Cream
The Cow and the Ice Cream A story told by a 3rd grade teacher The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was...
The Harvest
All farmers know that it is easy in the spring to predict a bumper crop. And in the summer as the fields grow to...
Simon Says Postcards 09/05/2012
The scariest fact I learned in Berlin was that it only took the Nazi's 12 years (1933 - 1945)...
The Dead Horse Theory
The Dead Horse Theory of Bureaucracy The tribal wisdom of the US Plains Indians, passed on from generation to...
Simon Says Postcards 8/28/2102
Circa 1200 in Rothenburg they passed a compulsory tax to build city walls. This was followed by taxes to have...
August 23, 2012 Maxim
"Economic Nationalism is Racism" Harry Binswanger in Forbes Magazine 8/20/2012 "People their products and their...
Boris Johnson
"My policy on cake is having it and eating it." Boris Johnson Lord Mayor of London and Political Hero of the...
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