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PolitiFact Seeks to Spoil the Spin of Scott Jennings Jul. 11, 2025
The "fact-checkers" at PolitiFact barely touch the talking heads on cable television anymore. They u... Read More
Here's a Tip May. 23, 2025
There are two things some of us know about taxes. The first is that taxes are unfair because, "Hey! ... Read More
MAGA Slumlords Try Friction Theory on Americans Mar. 27, 2025
Thomas Jefferson referred to the U.S. government as a "common house" that provided the people protec... Read More
Medicaid Helps Your Children in School Too. You Just Don't Realize It Mar. 14, 2025
In the search for waste, fraud and abuse, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Gover... Read More
The Democrats Looked Silly Mar. 06, 2025
There they were, dressed in hot pink, waving signs, banging on a cane. If that is what counts as res... Read More
The Democrats in Disarray Mar. 05, 2025
This week, I had the opportunity to attend President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Co... Read More
Young, Black, Hispanic Americans Would Opt Out of Social Security Even If It Wasn't Broken Nov. 20, 2024
I pull the following directly from the summary of the 2024 annual reports of the Social Security and... Read More
Taking From Peter To Give to Paul Is Not America Sep. 11, 2024
A newspaper story several years ago reported about an elementary school teacher who held elections i... Read More
Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security Mar. 27, 2024
In today's column, I'm going to talk about Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Despite what many... Read More
Book Updates Feb. 28, 2024
Over the past couple of months, hundreds of you have written to me because you've had trouble gettin... Read More
Horse Sense Sep. 13, 2023
A new study reports that adolescents who are inpatients at opioid addiction treatment centers are mo... Read More
Dead on Arrival Aug. 30, 2023
Maternal deaths during pregnancy or in the year after childbirth are on average 10 times higher in t... Read More
The Law of Unintended Consequences Can't Be Repealed Aug. 30, 2023
This week, the Biden administration announced that Medicare would name some 10 prescription drugs it... Read More
A Post-Clemency Prosecution Shines a Light on a Broken System: Donald Trump Commuted Esformes' Sentence, but the DOJ Is Bent on Sending Him Back to Prison Jul. 07, 2023
A month before he left office, then-President Donald Trump freed Philip Esformes, a Florida nursing ... Read More
Our Fake Spending Debates May. 31, 2023
This week, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and President Joe Biden cut a deal to rais... Read More
Step Back or I'll Kill This White Man! May. 26, 2023
I'm a 66-year-old white man, and I'm more or less retired. I do a little writing, and I do a local n... Read More
Another Republican Legislature Expels a Democrat, Citing 'Decorum.' That's Rich. May. 02, 2023
For the second time in less than a month, a Republican-controlled state legislature has blocked a De... Read More
Government Action or Inaction Kills People; What Do You Call That Crime? Mar. 29, 2023
When Stephen Paddock started firing an assault rifle into a crowd at a Las Vegas concert in October ... Read More
Medicaid Update Mar. 08, 2023
The Affordable Care Act, originally passed in 2010 and sometimes called Obamacare, created access to... Read More
A 40% Fatherless Nation? Feb. 16, 2022
In 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II, there wer... Read More
