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Birds of a Feather

January 27, 2021

ultures are appropriate representatives for the overwhelming number of politicians and others calling themselves Republicans. Vultures don’t put themselves in jeopardy by killing their own prey. They wait for others to do their dirty work. Although vultures come in a variety of colors, they congregate with others of like color, much like Republicans. I don’t […]

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Isms Are Dangerous

September 15, 2018

veryone uses labels. Most even label themselves. The problem is that almost no one can define those labels correctly. Some, not all, but some economists can correctly define those common words. I have yet to find a political scientist that can accomplish that task.

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Boot The Freeloaders

November 11, 2014

he Republicans say the poor are not carrying their share of the load. They say they don’t pay taxes. Actually, they pay a greater percentage of their income than does Myth Romney or most of his fellow plutocrats. Most of the poor have jobs. Many have more than one job but are still poor. They […]

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Words Fail Me

August 2, 2012

ords may fail me but seem never to have failed that master polemicist, Gore Vidal. It’s difficult to consider oneself a writer whenever one reads a titan such as he. It does, however, give one a truer perspective. In light of our relative literary strengths, I will rely for the greater part of this small […]

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How Lucky Can We Get?

February 27, 2009

Someone asked me a question this morning in the locker room of the YMCA. As I was responding, someone else chimed in that the cause of all of our economic problems was that FDR had abandoned the gold standard. I tried to come up with as humorous a retort as I could that early. It […]

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Starting the Politics Category

June 23, 2008

Although it has been more than 30 years since I held public office and sincerely recanted ever having been a politician, it is the most addictive substance known to humankind. I have been totally incapable of ignoring it.

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