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The Art Of The Fart
In Defense of Joe Biden And Old Men A month ago, I was about to write my column on replacing the income tax with a national sales tax and abolishing the IRS. Then something
Read More »42nd Street: Tapping The Blues Away
I was going to write my Lagniappe column about replacing the income tax with a national sales tax and abolishing the IRS, but something more important has come up. My wife, Cathy, will be
Read More »Illegal Drug Trade In Afghanistan
What The Media Are Not Telling Us … I am writing this column on Sept. 11, twenty years after Al Qaeda terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing 2,977
Read More »The Value Of Kittens And Worms
About a year ago, I wrote a column about two little kittens that Bandit, our 110-pound boxer, found in our backyard. They appeared to be about a month old, and someone had just dumped
Read More »Federalism And The Federal Debt
Most discussion of our soaring federal debt (now more than $28 trillion) is focused on financial issues such as how much debt is too much for a country (it is now 110 percent of
Read More »The New Economics Of The Left
If you want to understand the economic policies of the Biden administration, do not dig up your macroeconomics textbook from your college days because the monetary and fiscal policies of the current administration are
Read More »Trump And The Republican Future
When Donald Trump spoke to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), he was largely addressing his core supporters, and he made three things very clear: first, he has no intention of forming a
Read More »Can We Bridge The Political Divide?
Last January, I wrote my column for Lagniappe about the polarization of politics in the United States. I was born in 1946, making me one of the first “baby-boomers.” As I was growing up,
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