"Re-inventing the wheel" is an expression which is possibly as old as the wheel itself. The reason the metaphor is so embedded in the...

In my last post I raised the possibility that the level of literacy of the adult population may have had an influence on the outcome of...

You are probably wondering about my long silence since the last post on 11/7/24. I admit it has taken me a long time to gather my...

On November 12, 2022, I wrote a post - Democracy in Action - about my experience as a volunteer at a polling station in my city. The...

At the end of the post "One week to go" I proposed two questions as a litmus test for all candidates running for election and said the...

Three recent capital punishment cases in the news persuaded me to write about this issue. I will start with an outline of the three...

As the clock ticks down to Election Day 2024 candidates of both major parties up and down the ballot are whipping their supporters into a...

I wrote the first Middle-of-the-road post on January 20, 2020. It was about tax policy, but I started with my rationale for the blog. A...

Jawboning is defined as attempting to persuade or pressure by the force of one's position of authority. It is noteworthy that the party...

In my last post I said I would dedicate the next one to JD Vance. I have decided a better approach is to compare the Vice-Presidential...

I could not believe my ears when I heard speculation that the attempt on his life might - just might - cause Donald Trump to mellow, if...

I don't know how many people will remember what they were doing when they heard about President Biden's decision to not seek re-election....

Nothing concentrates the mind like the prospect of an imminent hanging. This sentiment has been attributed to both Samuel Johnson and...

Before launching my new post, I would like to indulge in a bit of self-promotion. My last post (Be Bold, 4/11/24) suggested President...

"Be bold - shape the future" is the tagline of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM. The sentiment - Fortune favors the bold -...

A statement is said to be self-evident if it is generally accepted and requires no proof. Most Americans associate "self-evident truth"...

"I want to live in a normal country" may well be the most poignant, plaintive and desperate quote of Alexei Navalny whose death in a...

...make stupid mistakes? Two recent events prompted today's post. Over the new year we learned that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had...

That expression transports Americans of a certain age back to 1969-70 and Vice-President Spiro Agnew's diatribes against Democrats and...

The president who succeeded Lincoln was Andrew Johnson, not Andrew Jackson.