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Preparing For Retirement Often Includes The Use Of An IRA

Question: Do you know anything about the required minimum Distribution changing for my IRA? Answer: I want to say this column is not meant to give financial advice, but I have learned a lot about RMD’s and IRA’s in the last few weeks. I will try to pass along what I have learned. When preparing for retirement, we are trying to save and set aside money for this period of their lives. This process often includes setting up an Individual Retirement Account (IRA). A traditional IRA contribution is pre-tax money set aside in the IRA for later use. This means that the money placed in ...

What Will Stop Google’s Kiddie Predators

How much more evidence do we need to compile before the federal government protects our children and fully deplatforms Google from American public schools? The Silicon Valley behemoth has already admitted it illegally collected children’s personal information on YouTube without parental consent, mines students’ browsing habits and emails, and tracks kids’ locations, audio and search history through Google educational apps and logons that are required for millions of students to participate in public schools. Well, there’s more. Much more. Let us review the most recent ...

Palestinians Should Give Peace Plan A Chance

President Donald Trump’s brilliant plan for Mideast peace has triggered a sandstorm of negativity and deflection from the regular naysayers who attack anything the president says and does. Critics of his recently unveiled peace aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should instead scrutinize the document and recognize its merits. This peace plan was carefully crafted over multiple years under the leadership of Jared Kushner, relying heavily on expert economic analysis, intelligence data and security assessments. Kushner deserves credit for preparing this thorough ...

The Common Good Is Best Served By Ignoring It

Developed societies are those in which the common good has been multiplied many times, over a long period of time. It may seem paradoxical that such things happen in spite of virtually all of those societies pretty much ignoring the common good during the period of greatest advancement. Along the same lines, those societies that hold the common good as the ultimate good, in virtually all cases, either don’t develop or decline in prosperity and in the resulting common good. Paradoxes don’t exist in reality, and this is no exception. The common good is nothing but the accumulated ...

Interesting Week For Democracy And Football

It hasn’t been the greatest week for our country, has it? Those who look toward fairness and decency as a sign of our country’s health may feel concerned or disappointed. I don’t know about you, but I thought the Super Bowl halftime show was degrading to women. It seems to me that progressives are always screaming about objectifying women, and then the Hollywood-created halftime show featured stripper poles and tawdry dancing and half-clad women. How was that performance not objectifying women? Aren’t we in the middle of the Harvey Weinstein trial? Most people I know ...

What Does ‘Love’ Really Mean?

Friday, we will, once again, be celebrating the Hallmark Holiday of Love, Valentine’s Day. The Beatles once did a song titled, “All You Need is Love,” and it began with the repetitive lyric of “Love, Love, Love.” It’s a complex word, “love.” What does it really mean? How is it supposed to be used? Is it overused? Is it underused? It seems to be a very confusing word given to such a complex emotion. Love is sometimes used as a noun. No, it is not tangible in that we can grab it physically, or put it in a box, or throw it to someone, but love can be given. It can be ...