Friday, January 1, 2016

2016: Freedom in the Balance


December 27, 2016 is the date of the last update. Read my articles:


Why ‘Vertigo’ Is One Of The Greatest Movies Ever
Cutting the Spending, Goosing the Economy
The never-ending story of election recounts
Trump’s Reaganesque Approach to Business
Divided or Undivided Government: That is the Question
You’re Never Gonna Get the Smell Out
Immigration and ‘far-right’ rhetoric
Hey, Millennials, Do Deficits Matter?
Getting the Government We Deserve
Millennials and the Obama Legacy
Does America Have an ‘Official’ Morality?
The Resurrection of Congress
Voting Technology in 2016
Did ‘Private’ Choices Give Us These Nominees?
‘Permission’ to Vote for Trump
Members Only: the Right to ‘Private’ Associations
America Needs ‘Open’ Conventions
Are Political Parties ‘Private’?
Plan B for the GOP: Tilting at Windmills?
Delegates to Both Conventions Need to Start Over from Scratch
GOP Delegates Are ‘Free’ to Choose Whomever
The ‘Rigged System’ and the F.B.I. Primary
What’s Wrong with Europe
Time and the Pelosi-Reid-Obama Debt
Redemption after the Apocalypse … what the?
Promethean Delegates Unbound: the ‘Nuclear Option’
The Most Important Republicans in 2016
Delegates to the Rescue in the Year of the Outsider
Nullifying the Republican Primaries
Inequality in the Personal Income Tax
Hillary Wants More of Your Money
Lurching Towards a Contested Convention
The ‘Unchecked Power’ to Tax
The Sublime Subliminal in Cinema
The Ignored Campaign Issue: the Deficit
The ‘Right Stuff’ for the Presidency
Getting ‘Medieval’ on the Top 400 Taxpayers
Dearth of ‘Systematic Thinking’ Dooms Debate
Tax Advice for GOP Presidential Candidates
The Nanny State and Adipose Rex

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The great Canadian tenor Jon Vickers died in 2015 (video tribute). Below he sings “Winterstürme” from Die Walküre. Vickers also excelled in the less heroic, as in this heartfelt rendition of “Ich grolle nicht.”