When I let my defenses down, I always have to admit to myself the deeply uncontrollable love I feel for America. I am not a patriot: I do not love the country as a nation; I love it as a group of people: of democratic, emotionally-motivated citizens. What a ragtag bunch of almost country bumpkins… continue reading »

When I let my defenses down, I always have to admit to myself the deeply uncontrollable love I feel for America. I am not a patriot! I do not love the country as a nation! I love it as a group of people: of democratically motivated citizens. What a ragtag bunch of country bumpkins we… continue reading »

One: The media’s knee-jerk reporting that Obamacare will cost the American economy 2.5 million jobs, appears – as should have been expected by everyone – to be so much balderdash. Fact checking by the Washington Post indicates that, instead, it may reduce the numbers of hours many people will need to work to sustain their… continue reading »

Sometimes I am rather slow picking up on things. A few days ago an investment broker responding to one of my Blogs used the term “Statist” in reference to Western European nations adhering closer to Socialism than the United States. I was uncertain what he meant at the time by Statist. I remain so. I… continue reading »

The Republican Party’s remarkably persistent self-destructive tendencies are equalled only by the Democratic Party’s remarkably persistent self righteous tendencies. I know the latter because I have been accused of it in my writings about our national economic responsibility to our own people before all the people of the world. And surely before any national love… continue reading »