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Some Elections Matter More Than Others

With Inauguration Day a few days away, let’s pick up where we left off 13 weeks ago, just before Election Day. The mother in this columnist’s German exchange family, having started school in 1933 and graduated in 1945—think about those years in German history—learned from a young age, and often rightly spoke of, just how quickly ordered liberty, if not successfully defended, can collapse, even in an advanced Western country, and fall to socialist atheist totalitarianism. Such statists can leave their countries in varying degrees and types of ruin. The previous 100 years or so ...

The Reason For Dueling Open Enrollment Ads

Question: Why are there still commercials about Medicare products on TV? I thought Open Enrollment was over? Answer: Many of us are aware of Medicare’s Annual Open enrollment Period running from October 15 to December 7 annually. You may not know about the January 1 to March 31, Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period (MA-OEP). This three month opportunity is for individuals with a Medicare Advantage Plan, allowing them to switch to any other type of insurance product they choose, with or without drug coverage. Medicare Advantage Plans (MA) are plans that replace your Original ...

Thinking Of The People In My Life

Today I am thinking of my mother-in-law. I am not sure why, but I am. Both my mother and mother-in-law died just before Christmas. For several years we lived on the farm in a trailer. She let me have a section of her freezer to keep my grocery things. I also used her cellar for my canned goods. I learned many things from my mother-in-law. She was my go-to person when it came to canning. I also learned some recipes from her. She was a great cook. In the days when Dick and I were dating, I traveled almost every weekend to Russell. I was teaching in Kenmore, NY. Dick of course, lived on ...

Who Is Mr. Langworthy Really Trying to Help?

It was with disappointment but no surprise to see Mr. Langworthy pushing for ‘Unleashing the Southern Tier’s Energy Potential.’ The questions are why, who will benefit, and who will be harmed? The first question is easy. “Many of the actions by which men have become rich are far more harmful to the community than the obscure crimes of poor men, yet they go unpunished because they do not interfere with the existing order.” - Bertrand Russell During the election, Trump asked energy industry executives to donate $1 billion to aid his campaign to retake the White House. Elon ...

Will Hulk Hogan Be In The Administration?

Now that a Fox News celebrity has been nominated to be Secretary of Defense and a former top executive at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) tapped to run the Education Department, it would seem likely that there could be a job opening for Hulk Hogan in the federal government. As the old saying goes: “To the victor belong the spoils.” That policy has generally been followed by both Democratic and Republican administrations over the years. I guess the difference this time is that personal loyalty seems paramount over experience and more political appointees are coming from the ...

The New York State Super-Folly Act

The NYS Governor recently signed a $75 Billion “Superfund” law to compensate so-called “victims” for “damages” done by “extreme climate events”. This is laughable on all accounts, but the effect on our society won’t be. While the rest of the world is discovering the fraud behind climate castrophism, our Governor is digging in. 10 years ago “climate experts” told us the Great Barrier Reef was dying from global warming; now it is bigger and healthier than ever. We were also told that climate change was killing all the honeybees, which would destroy ...