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Cousin RICO and Uncle Francis
You remember what RICO did to Big Tobacco, right? No, not your cousin, Rico. I didn’t say Rico, I said RICO, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. That RICO. In 1999, the U.S. Justice Department filed a civil RICO lawsuit against the major tobacco...
. . . GUNS!
EDITOR’S NOTE: As Mark Twain, put it, I apologize for the length of this blog. If I'd had more time, I could have made it shorter. But I don’t have more time. And neither do any of us when it comes to what our political representatives are allowing to happen in our...
Cut To The Chase
Editor's Note: You might wonder what possessed me to write this blog, an interview of a new music artist, Erica Chase? There are two answers: One, opportunity. A groupie at heart, I would love to interview Kobe Bryant,Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, Jennifer Lawrence, Tom...
Who’s Smarter?
According to The Wall Street Journal, young people are smarter than the Obama administration had expected. For the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, to work, millions of healthy adults under age 35 without health insurance have to buy coverage on the...
Thanksgiving
Not me. Not possible. Couldn't be. I couldn't be. Could I? Am I? Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!
You Do The Math
New research by Michigan State political scientist Corwin Smidt confirms that the percentage of voters who are truly “independent,” swinging from party to party, has plunged from 15 percent in the 1960s to just 5 percent today. Crossing over party lines to vote for...
Victims . . . Or Bullies? Continued
Editor’s Note: Originally offered as a comment to my recent original blog by this title, I thought the comment was worthy of a guest blog and the author, Koichi Mera, graciously agreed. Koichi was a Fulbright Scholar at, and holds a PhD in City & Regional Planning...
Inversion Layer Brings Ma Bell to Health Care
Inversion layer brings Ma Bell to Health Care. Sound like a weather report? Of sorts, it just might be. An inversion layer is generally understood to be “a layer of warm air overlying an area of cold air causing temperatures to increase with height.” In this case,...
Do A couple Hundred Wrongs Make 10,000 Rights?
It has been extensively reported that one of the reasons the terrorists were not preemptively cut off before the the carnage they wreaked last Friday in Paris is that they were able to encrypt their communications so they could not be intercepted and followed. Another...
Victims . . . Or Bullies?
Halloween costumes showing off sombreros are . . . “culturally inappropriate.” Or wearing pirate eye patches . . . “insensitive” to those who are sight challenged. (Note, that’s sight challenged and not sight impaired or blind). Imagine that, guys. Wait a minute....
