Gerald D. Skoning
In every election cycle, tax reform is front and center, highlighting every candidate’s platform. Tax fairness, tax simplicity, tax reduction. It’s a passionate populist appeal designed to win votes and lock down key electoral votes. After every election all those grandiose, progressive…
Astronomers and physicists are over the moon with excitement over what is being hailed as one of the biggest eureka moments in the history of science. An all-star team of astrophysicists announced last week that they have finally detected gravitational…
Republican and Democrat candidates for president have been trekking to Iowa and New Hampshire for over a year in hopes of making a good showing in the first two presidential primaries. Yet why in the world are we so concerned…
On the Democrat presidential campaign trail, both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have been harping again on the so-called “war on women” and demanding pay equity. At a recent rally in a packed gym in Des Moines, Clinton framed the…
When I took high school chemistry in the late ’50s, the classroom/lab featured a large colorful chart of the periodic table of elements which hung over the blackboard at the front of the room. It featured an arrangement of the…
Christmas will be different this year. Oh, there still will be plenty of joy and merriment. The holiday lights will shine just as brightly and children will bubble with anticipation just as they have for generations. On the surface the…
You could call me an “accidental” Naval Officer who served on active duty during the Vietnam Era. I wasn’t in ROTC in college. I didn’t aspire to an appointment to the Naval Academy. I didn’t come from a long line…
When I was a youngster, we were told to eat three square meals a day. Red meat, rich in protein, was considered a staple of a well-balanced diet. So, most of us developed a taste, even a passion, for beef….
The New York Times recently reported that Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamanei has cautioned that the nuclear agreement needs “careful scrutiny.” That warning was posted on his website, “The Office of the Supreme Leader, Sayyid Ali Khamenei,” www.leader.ir Website?? Really. I…
It’s June 2015. We are seventeen months away from the 2016 presidential election. Even the presidential primaries are looming way off somewhere on the distant political horizon. Nonetheless, we already have 10 declared Republican primary candidates (with Lord knows how…
