While we do not take sides in elections here, it is certainly fascinating to watch the Democrat Primary play out. Have you seen Slate.com delegate calculator?  It features the remaining states as well as delegates won thus far. One can play with the numbers depending on how many votes you think each candidate gets. There…

Robert Samuelson points out that the one thing that has to happen is happening, housing prices are falling. Until that happens the excess supply will not be removed from the market. Schemes to prop up folks that cannot afford the price they paid by jerry rigging mortgage rates or whatever are doomed to fail.  No…

I remarkd in the last post about how much change has taken place in Alabama, where one might have least expected it. But in other posts we note that past back benchers like Ireland are taking the lead in CHANGE!  Alabama and Ireland are both doing it with lower taxes, better education, and an open…

Triple digit oil prices not only spur alternative energy schemes but they spur methods to extract more from existing fields. In this article a former Resevoir Manager for ARAMCO speculates that these prices are fostering much more efficient recovery technologies. And so oil could be with us for several more decades.

As a professional accountant, you will be consulted on all sorts of decisions involving money.  The biggest is perhaps new plant location. Every city and state wants them and competition is fierce. Who is the latest winner in this category? Would you believe Alabama?  This is a follow up to our recent post comparing Ohio…

That famous phrase begins Dickens’Tale of Two Cities.  Today it could be the Tale of Two States. Please read this hyperlinked article.  As a high school senior we debated the topic of a National Right to Work Law. It was then I learned all about Open/Union/Closed shop states. Simply, a right to work law means…

Denis Reggie is regarded as one of if not the top wedding photographer in the US. He has done some twenty Kennedy weddings, Including Arnold and Maria.  Think about that….One of the grad class in her essay on starting a business, suggested wedding invitations.  I responded that could lead to a whole host of services…

Learn more about Spaceship One here. Read the reviews of this book here.   I checked Amazon. While some of his titles trade for pennies, Buckley’s God and Man still fetches twelve bucks, an incredible statement about a 1951 book re published and updated in 1977.  There’s that demand and supply thing. See more of…

Two that Mattered Individuals make a difference. We lost two such folk this past week. Different though similar, their devotion to craft made them stand out from the crowd. William F. Buckley passed at age 82, still working in his study. That is a deserved passing for any of us that have spilled some ink…

PIckups are gaining in popularity across the pond.   On my trip over in 1981 I was struck by the fact that in continental Europe there were not any pickup trucks, even small ones from Nissan.  Now they are catching on but in small numbers.  They avoid the Vaule Added Tax VAT by posing as business…