The mental health issues regarding gun ownership and use are well presented by several authors, and I will quote or paraphrase freely from them to convey their valuable contributions to an even wider audience. In my opinion, the information provided … Continue reading →

After every horrendous massacre in the United States and abroad, there is anguish and anger over guns. The violence creates yet another media opportunity to demand the wholesale prohibition of gun sales and ownership and—at the extreme—an outcry for confiscation … Continue reading →

This blogpost is based in part on material found in Pacific Standard Magazine, Nov/Dec, 2015. We have an educational problem in the United States—actually, multiple problems. One of them is the issue of for profit colleges and universities as an … Continue reading →

This blogpost is based on information found in Pacific Standard Magazine for Nov/Dec. 2015. There are 60,000 wild mustangs in the ten western United States; more than a thousand of them are penned up in BLM corrals near Las Vegas. … Continue reading →

The Seattle Stateside Dispatch stated that hundreds of billions of dollars were wasted in fraud including physicians referring patients to their own facilities. The U.S. Government Accounting Office [GAO] reported that, in 2003, there were identified 114 unauthorized entities selling … Continue reading →

Several credible estimates indicate that around 30% of health care is unnecessary…[and] 37% of medical cost is waste, abuse, and fraud. Various estimates indicate that between $67 billion and $234 billion are lost each year to waste, abuse, or fraud. … Continue reading →

We did not get significant healthcare reform with the PPACA, or as it is pejoratively known by the Republicans—Obamacare. The ideas were generally good ones, but the law was fundamentally hamstrung from the beginning by the twin failures of not … Continue reading →

My wife and I love to travel, and one of the elements of charm in different countries is the fractured English found in official signs which are usually meant to be helpful to the foreign visitor. Here are some examples … Continue reading →

Average debt levels for public college students have shown a disturbing upward trend during the past ten+ years. According to the College Board, in 2001—when 52% of students borrowed–the debt level per borrower was $10,600; and the debt per bachelor’s … Continue reading →