December 31, 20141Comments

What Next? And Next?: A shorthand history of America at war Part V The Korean War, 1950-53

The United States government blundered into a war that it said it was not going to fight. Then, after joining the war, it ignored various warnings as the war expanded. In

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Personal Finance

December 27, 20140Comments

Why Are So Many People Sick of Pols?

News Item: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announces the state will impose a ban on fracking, a relatively new but controversial technique of extracting oil from rock. Fracking is being

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Gregory on History

December 17, 20140Comments

What Next? And Next?(i) : A shorthand history of modern America at war Part IV World War II

In the late 1930s, under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the United States would start taking the steps to the back door of war, even though most Americans wanted the nation

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December 14, 20140Comments

The “Disgrace” that Traps Many Young People

From childhood in many homes it is drilled into millions of impressionable young minds: “You will go to a good university. It is the pathway to almost everything that is

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Gregory on History

December 5, 20140Comments

What Next? And Next?: A shorthand history of America at war Part III America and the Great War (1917-1918)

President Wilson, at the outset of the war in Europe in August 1914, called for strict neutrality. “We must be impartial in thought as well as in action,” (i) he

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Gregory on Books

December 3, 20141Comments

Why Some Women End Up with the Wealth That Eludes Others: This holiday season will be a spending disaster for many women as well as men.

Title: Ladies With Loot: Subtitle: How They Spend, How They Save, And How to Be One Yourself! By Erica L. McCain, LUTCF (47 pages, available at Amazon.com) “Fifty percent off so

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