Economic Policy
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Thursday, October 21st, 2021You don’t have to listen long to hear what workers are saying about their lives. Their hours are long. Their pay is stagnant. They want more time with their children. They live one healthcare emergency away from bankruptcy. Millionaires and billionaires, however, have never had it better. They have the lowest tax rate since the […]
I’m Not Scared of Words
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021Every time we turn around Fox News and the rest of the professional conservatives cry like babies about scary socialism. It doesn’t take much education to know they haven’t a clue what socialism is. They simply want to scare and paralyze American. In the early 1900s apartment and factory fires killed thousands. As a society […]
Seeds of Sedition
Thursday, July 29th, 2021The January 6 attack on American Democracy grew from seeds planted 40 years earlier. In the 1980s conservative activists created incendiary rhetoric to attack our government. Since the New Deal, conservatives had lost to a wave of progressive legislation. The Federal Government improved the lives of seniors with Social Security and Medicare. It improved the […]
Unreliable Energy
Thursday, June 17th, 2021Here we go again. ERCOT, Electric Reliability Council of Texas, has warned us that the Texas power grid is about to fail. That doesn’t sound very reliable to me. It must sound reliable to Greg Abbot and Dan Patrick. They failed to provide solutions in the last legislative session. A few ERCOT Board members did […]
Opposite Day Shouldn’t Be Everyday
Thursday, May 13th, 2021Every once in a while, when they were young, my boys would play “Opposite Day” It was game about saying one thing, but meaning another. For example, if you want to someone to “stay,” you would say “go.” If you wanted the TV “on,” you would ask someone to turn it “off.” The game is […]
End the Politics of Spite
Thursday, April 15th, 2021Have you ever heard the Medieval saying, “Don’t cut your nose off to spite your faceâ€? Spite is an uncommon word today. It means to hurt or offend. Often spite is an act of revenge. One person feels offended and responds spitefully. Revenge makes us feel vindicated or justified. Unfortunately, spiteful behavior is too often […]
Remodeling Our Home
Thursday, April 8th, 2021Not many things are more exciting, or frightening, than buying a new home. With it comes both freedom and responsibility. The owner has the freedom to change it at will but also must pay for the maintenance and repair. We’ve owned this particular house in Sherman for about twenty years. When we moved into it, […]
American Recovery Plan
Thursday, March 11th, 2021Joe Biden promised to “Build Back Better.†The liberals in Congress just passed the American Recovery Plan. They set the agenda because Democrats won elections for the House, Senate and the Presidency,. Liberals believe government programs can, and should, alleviate suffering. Conservatives reject this approach. They believe individuals should be left to struggle on their […]
Progressive America
Thursday, March 4th, 2021I am proud to live in Modern America. America is a progressive country. Our democracy allows us to create laws to improve our lives. Over the past 230 years much has changed for the better. The progress has been slow but steady. In the 1820s white laborers won the right to vote. In the 1870s […]
Safe and Secure Markets
Thursday, February 25th, 2021Markets are truly a human wonder. They allow us to buy products which we lack the skill, resources or time to make for ourselves. We rarely think about markets until they leave us in the cold. Markets are simply part of our everyday life. We shop for food and clothing. Sometimes we make big decisions […]
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