January 2015 Musings

February 8, 2015

The Solution is Always the Same Everybody knows the problems – why is it that nobody wants to bring to the table the single solution to all of it? The root problem, of course, is too much federal power. Okay, so what else is new? Currently, the main concern in that department is the rising […]

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December 2014 Musings

December 7, 2014

GET INVOLVED! IT’S EASY Can there be anything more frightening as you tip-toe on eggshells through life in this so-called free country than being tried and convicted of a crime you not only did not commit but one that never even happened? Yes, some factors can be included to make it even scarier – such […]

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November 2014 Musings

November 1, 2014

Mentioning Election Fraud One More Time, (before you forget it.) ‘Calibration error’ changes GOP votes to Dem in Illinois county Fox News – October 22, 2014 CHICAGO — Early voting in Illinois got off to a rocky start Monday, as votes being cast for Republican candidates were transformed into votes for Democrats. Republican state representative […]

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October 2014 Musings

October 17, 2014

Ain’t It Great to Live in this “Free Country!” It is bad enough that we cannot trust our politicians to tell us the truth – an age-old problem – but when a cooperative news media not only fails to investigate and continues to perpetuate these fabrications, even after the reported facts have long been proven […]

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September 2014 Musings

September 10, 2014

With a little help from my friend: There are no coincidences. Although I had been remiss the previous several Sunday mornings in tuning into my longtime favorite monetary realist Bruce McCarthy on RBN radio, his opening message on August 10th just seemed to be “right on” as a finale (for now) here. But we shall […]

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June 2014 Musings

August 10, 2014

Birthdays, MIA Friends and Merle is Cured of R.W. & B. Fever I began another year this month. Even though all my life I have made fun of people who refuse to tell their current age, I find myself factitiously telling others these days, “Now I am a dyslectic forty seven.” Of course, by utilizing […]

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August 2014 Musings

August 10, 2014

YOU REALLY THINK YOU’RE PAYING YOUR FAIR SHARE, EHH? (Income Tax, Fair Tax, Flat Tax, Sand Tax — all equal = No Tax.) Did you miss the 7-minute FED education in the July Musings? See it in the second site below. A more detailed explanation is the first one here, if you have the time, […]

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July 2014 Musings

August 10, 2014

Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader? That’s the title of an entertaining TV show (there are few left) made more so by the warm presence of down-home comic Jeff Foxworthy. It’s fun to pit our own knowledge against that of ten-year-olds while they (usually) outsmart far more formally educated adults three and four times their […]

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May 2014 Musings

June 2, 2014

“Kafkaesque” Redefined in 21st Century America by Pat Shannan In recent years, I have personally witnessed (so many times I cannot recount) the deceptive chicanery to which federal judges and prosecutors stoop to get a conviction “at all costs.” But in the federal venue the expression does not fit anymore because the railroading of a […]

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April 2014 Musings

June 2, 2014

THE LAST VOYAGE OF ARTHUR AND BOBO A different kind of love story by Pat Shannan Nearly half a century ago I was on a Farrell Lines freighter bound for Australia. The proposed route out of New Orleans was to take us south through the Gulf of Mexico into the Caribbean, west through the Panama […]

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