: About Me

My perspective is one of a 73 year old who remembers the depression and world war II. I completed my degree in civil engineering following a two year stint in the army. From the time I was a youngster, I have been curious about everything that affects me - which is everything. When I was 10, I would read from a randomly opened encyclopedia and devoured two books my parents bought on Inventors and Astronomy.

It is a lifelong addiction. The authors I have read in the past year include (but are not limited to) Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bruce Feiler, John Grisham, Jon Meacham, Earnest Hemingway, Tom Friedman and Nathaniel Philbrick. I just finished Basilica by R.A. Scotti about the building of St. Peter's in Rome. My favorite author is James Michener.

My daily input comes from the internet version of the New York Times and I watch most of the people on MSNBC and Fox mixed in with a little TV escapism - anything but sitcoms. My day starts with "Imus in the Morning". Magazine reading is limited to Discover magazine since most news magazines are reflexive, unreflecting rehashes of the past week's events.

My pet peeves are commercials that make people look stupid, sitcoms, the ACLU, Liberals, media bias and the Chicago Cubs. I love Robert Novak, Comcast's commercials featuring the Slowskys, Ann Coulter, The Beltway Boys and the St. Louis Cardinals.
My wife and I are active in our local Lutheran Church.

Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Did campaign contributions and lobbying by the financial sector contribute to the meltdown on Wall Street?

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Global warming caused the housing crisis. More accurately, the myth that GW is man-made has been the canard used by opponents of carbon-based energy development. When discussing how we ran out of money to pay the mortgage, a two part premise must be laid down before we begin to grope for solutions and try to predict when it will end. Number one, it is specious to debate over the various data that purports to foreshadow climate change because there is nothing we can do about it. Man made GW has none, zero, nada scientific basis. Gore's own scientists told him that Kyoto would lower global t...

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