2 Cents For These?

The following are worth what you paid for them but the asking price is still 2 cents per each as they say on the loading docks.
When you have spent an hour on the tarmac with no word from the cockpit about take off or pulling up the the gate, you wonder if those pilots were [...]

King Dollar and Diplomacy

This is not a polemic on politics but rather a discussion about economics, numbers and the international relations and effects of the US currency and its perceived worth around the world.    In the Wall Street Journal and other economic news outlets there has been substantial discussion of recent days about the decline of the dollar [...]

USS Paul Hamilton–A Small Story of Great Loss

Only 6 weeks before the D-Day invasion we lost one of Liberty ships off the coast of N. Africa near Algiers.   This was at a time when we were set to start the final act of WWII.   The Germans were already reeling from their losses on the Eastern Front and Stalingrad and it had been [...]

Lessons For Afghanistan From Reconstruction And The Raj

The current administration is making a complete review of our strategy and position and prospects in Afghanistan to great public notice.  It usually is best to consider such matters much more privately than is being done with this.  The great decisions of WWII between Churchill and Roosevelt were made behind closed doors with their most [...]

Ethos and Culture Matter

What is it to be an American?   That is always a good question and one floating about a lot these days with heated political rhetoric from all comers.  Nothing wrong with the heated rhetoric as such, ‘it is a mark of our freedoms and rights and we have always been pugnacious when it comes to [...]

Trade Wars, Tariffs and History

There is much flap in the news now about the recently imposed 35% tariff the current administration has imposed on Chinese tires imported to the US.  As expected the Chinese are unhappy and already grumbling about retaliation for our moves.  They will take counter action. I wouldn’t predict what it will be but they will respond [...]

2 Cents Worth–Politics, Health Care, Stuff

Ole Blackie Sherrod and I will stick our noses out there and see if they get sliced off with opinions and thoughts on about everything that is or was a headline.
I have heard various numbers from the current administration about how they will fund a portion of the health care reform by eliminating waste, abuse [...]

MacArthur Was Right About N. Korea, Then and Now

In June of 1950 the North Koreans launched their suprised attack on the South and overran Seoul in a matter of days and pushed back the fledgling South Korean Army and the few US troops on hand to the extreme southern areas of the Korean Penisula.  We finally got a few more troops on the [...]

Lockerbie and Enhanced Interrogation

The release of the terrorist who was involved in the Lockerbie bombing to Libya has certainly brought front and center the depth of the Muslim hatred for the West and their undying adulation of anyone who is responsible for killing Infidels.  Hard on the heels of that news is the Holder announcement that there will [...]

Return on Foreign Aid

In our earliest days during the Revolutionary War we were the recepients of “foreign aid” from France and from the Netherlands.  France supplied us with troops, ships, improved gunpowder and money.  The Dutch granted us loans that we desperately needed at the time to fund the American Army under Washington.  Ben Franklin was primarily repsonsible [...]