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...
Tag: Politics
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...
The Power of the Irrational
"The world for the most part is not run by reason. The power of the irrational is formidable." Paul Johnson...
Early Government
In Rothenburg, Bavaria we were surrounded by evidence of the beginnings of the city state. I wrote the other day...
Medieval Walls and Socialized Medicine
About 1200 in Rothenburg, Bavaria (pronounced rotenberg) in order to build a city wall they levied a tax on all of the...
The Yosemite vs The Jungfrau
Yosemite is Beautiful The Jungfrau is Beautiful Yosemite is a National Park owned by the all of the citizens of...
