Monthly Archives: October 2024

A Communist Paradise: Cuba

By | October 21, 2024

[October 21, 2024]  Cuba is a Communist paradise as the end is always the same: no electricity, no food, no running water, and no medicine. The national power grid, always problematic, began failing this past Thursdaybegan failing this past Thursday and collapsing entirely the next day. Among the poorest nations in the world is Cuba. And now the… Read More »

Is Islam the Problem?

By | October 19, 2024

[October 19, 2024] Is Islam the problem?  If we were to ask Mosab Hassan Yousef, aka the “Green Prince,” he would argue that Islam is an existential problem for the world. “The collective mind of society is representing something, an ideology, a culture, a state of consciousness that is stuck in the 6th and 7th centuries in a… Read More »

Don’t Make Assumptions

By | October 18, 2024

[October 18, 2024]  People make assumptions in everything we do, otherwise nothing would get done but here the reference is to the important assumptions. The basic principle of good habits  is “never assume anything” of consequence. I originally published this article years ago but resurrected it because of its relevance in today’s presidential race.  The terrible performance of… Read More »

Letters to My Granddaughter, No. 97

By | October 14, 2024

[October 14, 2024]  Our unexpected discovery of an abandoned, old town north of Abilene, Texas, near Lake Fort Phantom-Hill was something special for my friend David and me. We’d heard from others in our neighborhood about lost towns scattered throughout the area and within driving distance of our home. And there she was, sitting pretty and waiting for… Read More »