Category · 16 postsPolitics
All posts in the automatic “Politics” category, newest first.
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March 5, 2025
Billionaires!
We owe a lot to our billionaires! I know there is a lot of disrespect and accusations that they aren’t paying their fair share to…
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January 20, 2025
Why Donald J. Trump
I wonder what percent of USA citizens would agree that these are sixteen primary reasons Donald J. Trump won a second term as POTUS. Maybe…
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February 12, 2023
Presidential Candidates and Voters
Originally published 1/24/2016 · republished 2023
This post is based largely on A Thinking Person’s Candidate published by me in an earlier blog on 1/24/2016, seven years ago. The…
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April 3, 2020
Now We Know Why!
Now we know why decades of deficit spending and debt accumulation, even through times of fake prosperity, storing our national wealth in ridiculously inflated stock…
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September 3, 2017
Labeling and Limiting Ourselves and Others
David Brooks is spending a lot of time thinking lately and coming up with some good points such as in the attached column. We are…
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March 26, 2017
Why So Quiet?
I see there are very few new posts on this blog since the November election of Donald Trump. And this in spite of the fact…
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January 2, 2017
A Blue Collar State of Mind
I didn’t vote for Donald Trump for POTUS (or for Hillary Clinton), but I understand exactly why so many did and why he won the…
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October 29, 2016
I Could Have Been a Lobbyist
There is an interesting article in The State newspaper today about lobbying activity in and around the SC State House. I know the sizes of the…
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October 14, 2016
At Least One Fatal Flaw (In the ACA)
Originally published November 16, 2013 · republished 2016
The post below was originally published November 16, 2013. Given the number of insurance companies currently ceasing to participate in the ACA, it is interesting…
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October 13, 2016
Republican Party, RIP
Since the founding of the nation, the fundamental political issue has always been size and influence of the Federal Government and the extent to which…
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October 11, 2016
The Birth and Failure of “Obamacare”
The post below was written during the negotiations leading up to the March, 2010, passage of the Affordable Care Act. Passage of the proposed legislation,…
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September 9, 2016
Abraham Lincoln, Gary Johnson, and Libertarianism
I’m thinking of the libertarian political philosophy in connection with Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson’s failure to respond quickly and appropriately to a question about…
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September 4, 2016
Very Helpful US History Book
I am enjoying America’s Forgotten History, Part II, by Mark David Ledbetter. It is self published and available on Amazon Kindle for $1.50. Of course…
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August 13, 2016
JFK and Changing Times
I was a senior at Vanderbilt on November 22, 1963, the day of President Kennedy’s assassination. JFK had visited Nashville and spoken at Vanderbilt’s Dudley…
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August 1, 2016
Universal Basic Income: Next Big Thing
The item below is from the August 1, 2016, Time Magazine. Search “universal Income” and you will find recent much longer articles from The New…
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July 1, 2016
Red State Blue State, Demographics, Economics, and Politics (12/7/2012)
Originally published 12/7/2012 · republished 2016
In famously Red South Carolina, voting only 44% for President Obama in 2012, I live in Richland County, home of the University of South Carolina…
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