Sue can always find some silly excuse to go to the building supply store. Like: If we don’t fix the leak in the roof, the living room ceiling will collapse. If we don’t replace the three missing risers on the front porch steps, someone will trip, break a leg and sue us. If we don’t […]

Stocks of hospital and Medicaid-contracted managed-care companies plunged  on the announcement of Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional. Some advisors consider this a “buying opportunity,” expecting that the ruling will be reversed on appeal. This shows who the important stakeholders are. Medicaid managed-care contractors get a monthly payment for each enrollee, whether any […]

George Cahill was a man with a higher mission fixed to the skies. He volunteered to fight in World War II at the earliest possible age: 17-and-a-half. Both parents signed off, and he headed to gunnery school in Las Vegas. George met his crew in Lincoln, Nebraska. They flew to Newfoundland and then Iceland and […]

North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica. Humans live, work, and play on the seven continents. Humans sail the seas. Humans fly the skies. And humans read online newspapers. “The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold,” declared Henry Ward Beecher. All free countries on the planet […]

President Trump and British Prime Minister May have something in common.  They consider themselves adept at what Trump has famously called “the art of the deal.” Relying on their self-confidence, each has made a promise they could not keep.  They lacked the skill to pull off promises that were, in fact, impossible to keep.  They […]

It was strange, Doc thought. All these years. All these people. It still hurts. Old Tom had died around midnight, and Doc didn’t get more than an hour’s sleep since then. Just before he went, Tom reached out and gripped Doc’s hand and thanked him for everything. He was smiling when he went. Somehow that […]

After hanging up from a two hour-phone call with my cable TV provider, much of it spent waiting for a human, I immediately got an email asking me to fill out a customer service survey. The first question: Did my customer service representative solve my problem? No, but that’s not the right question. The first […]

Among other eccentricities, I do not possess a smartphone and have never wanted one. It’s bad enough that I spend my working hours flitting around the internet like an over-caffeinated sparrow without carrying Google in my pocket. If I need to check the weather in Galway, Ireland, or Andrew Benintendi’s 2017 batting average, it can […]

The United States is quickly becoming divided into the globalists and the patriots.  They are at total war against each other.  Since they are ideologically incomparable only one side can win.  In time all will support one side or the other side.  Readers already are, whether they are fully aware of what they support or […]

Though books about history — by writers such as David McCullough, Ron Chernow, Doris Kearns Goodwin and others — sell briskly, the future of the past in American life is facing some stern mathematics: A recent study shows that over the past six years no discipline has lost favor — measured in the number of […]