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High Court Considers Another Challenge Affecting Guns

Before the U.S. Supreme Court is another challenge affecting guns. Yet by all indications, the decision—like the 2024 decision on bumpstocks—won’t be about the Second Amendment. ♦♦♦ Let’s pick up where we left off on the day of that 2024 decision. What a statute, passed by Congress and signed by a president, says is one thing. Whether a regulation that an agency enacts is consistent with the statute is a different question. ♦♦♦ The latter is the issue before the court in Bondi v. VanDerStok. A decision is expected by the end of June. In some court ...

How To Find Insurance When A Spouse Passes Away

Question: My spouse just passed away, and I am so overwhelmed with all that needs to be done. Now I found out his retiree health insurance will no longer cover me. Now what do I do? Answer: I am so sorry for your loss. This is an especially difficult and stressful period of time for you. Now with the loss of your insurance, you have one more task to take care of. So, let’s talk about solutions. Usually when you lose coverage in this situation, you will lose coverage at the end of the month. It is February, so you have until March 1t to pick a replacement for that retiree coverage ...

Buyer Beware!

Today I share a personal experience with you. We were trying to refinish my kitchen floor. It was done about ten years ago, but needed a new coat of finish. My son came up one Wednesday and gave it a light sanding. He planned to apply a coat of finish on Saturday. We knew what we were doing so we had an expected outcome in mind. It looked beautiful when it was done. My son left for home, but left his equipment since he planned a second coat. A couple hours into the drying process I looked at my floor. It said it needed four hours of drying time. What I saw was not what I expected. The ...

What Happened To The Grand Old Party?

It wasn’t that long ago that the Grand Old Party (GOP) was advocating for free trade and the elimination of tariffs and trade restrictions. The party also advocated for a bi-partisan foreign policy encouraging strong relationships with our allies through alliances like NATO in order to contain Russian aggression. Now all that seems to be gone. “We are the great United States, we are bigger and smarter than any other nation, and we will tell the world what to do. International leaders and members of military alliances which we helped create need to understand that we are now the ...

Nuclear Industry Over-Promises And Fails To Deliver

Microsoft recently signed an agreement with Constellation Energy to restart the 50-year-old Unit 1 nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island. Microsoft would be the only customer, buying all the electricity to power their data centers. Three Mile Island Unit 2 was the one that melted down in 1979, Unit 1 was shut down in 2019 because the electricity produced was too expensive and the plant not profitable. Constellation estimates it will cost $1.6 billion to restart the plant. They are asking you, the US Taxpayer, for a $1.6 billion loan guarantee since there is a lot of risk in doing ...

Sweden’s Lessons For America

About six years ago, economist Johan Norberg produced a documentary about Sweden’s recent economic transformations entitled “Sweden: Lessons for America.” The program is very informative as well as entertaining, and will challenge what you thought you knew. You can still catch it on YouTube (highly recommended). Sweden was one of the poorest countries in the world prior to 1850 when many fled to avoid the grinding poverty. (The first Swedes came to Jamestown in 1849; immigration locally continued through the World War 1era.) Later, Sweden adopted free markets to become one of ...