Nov 20, 2025
We have a little bird trying to call our attention to a major problem. That bird is the insurance industry with its army of actuaries. We ignore that warning at our own risk, and at the risk of our children and grandchildren.
Nov 14, 2025
Let's keep the economy on an even keel. Americans of all economic levels should insist that Congress make the small increase in payroll taxes needed to protect monthly benefits, protecting the Social Security that is nearly everyone's main asset.
Nov 5, 2025
Politicians, theologians, and scientists should be able to get along as long as none of them gets too big for their professional britches.
Oct 24, 2025
Why seize by force, with its casualties, destruction of property, and other costs, when you can achieve your objective non-violently and at much lower cost?
Oct 3, 2025
The Trump EPA now proposes to stop requiring corporations to measure and report the amount of greenhouse gases they're releasing. Apparently the administration fears all these measurements will undermine its feeble arguments that it's safe to continue burning coal, oil, and, gas to produce power.
Sep 23, 2025
People purchasing insurance in the subsidized Obamacare marketplaces can have a terrible time trying to figure out a policy which has their current doctors "in network" and which will cover the medicines they're taking.
Sep 15, 2025
Effective leaders must take advice into consideration but not allow one expert to dictate decisions. Policy choices require tradeoffs between conflicting government objectives.
Sep 2, 2025
Billions of dollars spent on atomic bombs and bombers as well as intercontinental ballistic missiles could provide adequate security for less money that conventional forces.