Sunday Last night, I was stunned beyond words by a story from UCLA. A young student was eavesdropped upon while he was having an argument with his girlfriend in a parked car. In the conversation, the young man used some…
Sunday My wife loves to read mystery stories. She’s not in good health, and she spends most of each day lying in a sunny room in our house on the second floor, reading mystery novels. Recently, I walked into her…
Rush Limbaugh. Gone. Seemingly as permanent a feature on our media landscape as the face of Abraham Lincoln was on Mount Rushmore. The dean of conservative radio talk show hosts. Magnetic North Pole for tens of millions of Americans each…
You may know me as an actor or a game show host, or you might not know me at all. But what I am mostly is an economist. My mother was an economist, and my father was an economist, and…
Monday Yesterday, I awakened to the sad news that George Pratt Shultz, gigantic fixture in American public life, possibly the last surviving member of what used to be called “The Establishment,” before “The Establishment” was composed of billionaires with hearts…
This great nation has one problem that surpasses all of its other problems. Race. Every problem we have, poverty, ignorance, crime, tastelessness, is overwhelmed and fed by problems of race. Alas, this has always been fact for our great country….
Here’s a sad truth we now have to live with. The America we know, the America we grew up with, the America we had until a year or less ago, is gone. The Constitution of the United States of America,…
Friday Cognitive dissonance is the phenomenon where you see two or more phenomena that are supposed to go together but really are wildly different. For example, if you saw a bloody beachhead on Peleliu and right on the sand in…
Your humble servant was fascinated by President Joe Biden’s “declaration of war” against “white supremacy.” I assume by that he meant he was going to declare war on racism. That is, he was going to fight against any form of…
