Politics
Now, I am not an attorney, but the Constitution was written so that most educated people could read it and understand it. So, here goes… For all of you Originalists out there, let’s take a look at the US Constitution and Impeachment. There are only SIX instances of...
I think that it is time for me to take a stance on the issue of whether, if the Democrats win the White House and the Senate, they should expand the Supreme Court to 11 justices. I do not want to equivocate on this issue, so I have used the Republican arguments to...
December 1940. Hitler had finalized his plans for Vichy, France, the German invasion of Russia and the invasion of Greece. Dionne Warwick, Frank Zappa, Richard Pryor, Nick Buoniconti and Phil Ochs were born. In Oxford, England a police constable named Albert...
LEAVING THE WHO. THE SAME MISTAKES AGAIN So, Mr. Trump has announced that we are pulling out of the WHO. He claims that, in his opinion, the WHO did not do enough to alert the US on the problems associated with COVID-19; they didn’t do it early enough, and they relied...
As the president has said many times about almost every foreign country in the world regarding trade, “they are ripping us off”. What he means is that the trade imbalance with almost every other country is negative; we buy more from them than we sell to them. Mr....
A modest proposal on preventing the poor people of Central America from becoming a burden to the United States of America It is sad to walk through the urban areas of this great country, and see the streets crowded with illegal immigrants surviving off of the public...
This example is based on fact and is designed to provide a discussion framework for looking at the complexities of managing healthcare costs. The Disease: Hemophilia A [1] The Cause: A...
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM, OH MY!!! Well, well, well. Zohran Mamdani was elected Mayor of NYC. I have heard for 9 months from the Republican faithful about Mr. Trump: “He was elected by the voters; give him a chance; let’s see what he does.” Mr. Trump won the...
In recent days we have seen Mr. Trump cancel funding for major projects authorized by Congressional act and signed into law by the President. We have seen the cancellation of funding for wind power plants, for a rail tunnel between NJ and NY, for approved and...
On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM Claude Gerstle wrote: Despite a lot of research, effort and money leading to improved student outcome in secondary schools over the last 20 years, all the gains have occurred in the top half of students with the bottom half and...
NATIONALISM VS GLOBALISM In the previous notes I have attempted to describe how inflation is measured, how companies react to price increases, causing increased inflation, and how the inflation in the US relates to the inflation in the EU and the world in general....
As I have said, I am not an economist, just an observer and my simplification of how inflation works was intended to put us all on the same page as a basis for this note. I have spoken to two eminent economists whose views are not necessarily the same, but who have...