Some Economic Facts Because Facts Matter
The unemployment rate as of September 2024 is 4.1% (Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis). This is lower than the natural unemployment rate...
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Briefly, why I voted for Kamala...
A week or so ago I completed my mail-in ballot and voted for Kamala Harris for President. When I vote for a candidate, I have three...
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Oct 221 min read
Character Matters, Character is Destiny
About 15 years ago my wife gave me an autographed copy of Character is Destiny written by Senator John McCain. It is one of my favorite...
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Aug 126 min read
A Note to Generation X, Millennials, Generation Z, and beyond…
I taught university students in Texas and Indiana for 39 years with most of them representing Generation X (born 1965-80) and Millennials...
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Jul 173 min read
Open Borders
What does the term “open borders” mean? I know that it became popular during the Obama years by some Republicans who wanted to and did...
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Jul 22 min read
No One is Above the Law
I have been taught my entire life by my parents, community leaders, teachers, professors, and lawyers that no one is above the law in our...
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Apr 135 min read
The Great Lie
In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote “The great masses of the people…will more easily fall victim to a great lie than to a small one.” By the end...
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Mar 194 min read
Words, words, and words...
I am reading William Manchester’s masterful three volume biography of Winston Churchill. In addition to being one of the most important...
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Feb 132 min read
A Quick Note: Who Benefits from US Military Foreign Aid?
Foreign aid has become a serious election and national security issue in the last few months. The President has recently asked for...
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Jan 127 min read
On a Dreary Afternoon: Some Thoughts on Free Speech and the Health of our Democracy
It is rare that we get dreary days in Tallahassee but today is one of those. So, I just started writing. About 12 years ago I was...
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Aug 14, 20233 min read
Change You Can See continued
I lived in Indiana for 31 years, almost all of my professional academic career, and I had many wonderful colleagues across the state...
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Aug 1, 20233 min read
Change You Can See
The past year or so as we drive up to the Louisville area to visit our kids and our grandson Shan and I have noticed the huge twin...
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Jun 7, 20234 min read
Concerning Book Bans...
As an avid book reader my entire life, thanks to the influence of my mother, and as an academic, I am greatly alarmed at the dramatic...
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Mar 16, 20237 min read
Do You Really Want to Model your State after DeSantis' Florida?
Republican-led states are passing laws which severely limit the discussion of race, gender, and sexuality in classrooms from K-12 through...
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Sep 23, 20225 min read
Useful Terms Concerning Immigration
U.S. citizens. These are individuals who were either born in the U.S. or who have become "naturalized" after three or five years as...
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Aug 25, 20226 min read
The Biden Administration at 19 Months and the Midterms...
Expectations for the success of the newly elected Biden administration in January of 2021 were extraordinarily high among his supporters...
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Jul 14, 20221 min read
A Quick Note: Understanding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) was created in 1973-74 in reaction to the oil crisis of the 70s. It is essentially a series of...
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Jun 1, 20227 min read
A Reaction to the Tragedy at Uvalde
A Reaction to the Tragedy at Uvalde. Like most of you, I watched the extensive coverage of yet another senseless shooting at a school in...
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May 24, 20222 min read
Florida under DeSantis
I have lived in Florida for a little over 3 years now and Governor DeSantis and the Republicans have failed to carry out their primary...
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May 12, 20223 min read
Voting for President
I had a former student ask me what criteria I used in my decision as to whom I vote for in a presidential election. It’s a good question...
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