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Think of this post as an attempt to look about a month into the future. I’m writing this on Monday, April 7th, as the stock market continues to plunge following the announcement of Trump’s sweeping tariffs late last week. As will be obvious to a regular reader of this space, I don’t like tariffs, except to accomplish specific results when a country or industry is egregiously targeting the U.S. with their own unfair tariffs, domestic subsidies, or trade restrictions. Or there is a strategically...

I don’ know about you, but I’m both cautiously optimistic and nearly exhausted by recent events here in our country. And about the last thing we need is another opinion piece on this or that, so I’ll keep this brief. All I ever want is the truth. I believe that for quite a while now, particularly the last twelve years, we’ve been told a lot of lies or at best half-truths by powerful groups and individuals in and around our government, and these excesses led to some really bad policies.  On a...

Can we agree that both parties are offering candidates with some less-than-perfect personality traits, and that both parties have lied on numerous occasions? If that’s the case, then how does one decide how to vote in November? I suggest by looking beyond the personalities and the accusations, and focusing instead on the policies that each party supports, which usually are written down, straight forward, and hard to lie about. Another reason to do so is that it is these policies, if and when...