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Almost Everyone Here Is an Immigrant

Anyone who was born in America before Columbus came here can technically be called an American; anyone who came here after Columbus discovered America can technically be called an immigrant. And that makes almost everyone in America an immigrant. So why all this fuss about immigration? We hear all these stories about illegal immigrants using our tax dollars for education, healthcare, etc., but if we didn’t deport immigrants and we had open borders, there wouldn’t be any illegal immigrants. So …

Trusting Your Boss

About twenty-five years ago, one of my friends told me he wanted to quit his job because he didn’t trust his boss. He was in the kind of job where he had complete autonomy and didn’t really have too many occasions where he had to interact with his boss. I kept probing, trying to understand what trust had to do with what he was hired to do. In my estimation, he was at the top of his grade, top salary, …

Too Many Managers Spoil the Broth

The original saying is that too many cooks spoil the broth but the cultural definition is that too many people who are involved in managing an activity can ruin it. The dictionary says that this expression alludes to each of many cooks adding something to the soup, which finally tastes awful. This is a perfect example of government. There are so many layers of bureaucracy that nothing gets done, everyone plays the blame game, and corruption exists in every strata …

The Worst Supreme Court in History

I can’t remember a Supreme Court in all my years that was so terrible. This Supreme Court has made the worst legal decisions in its history and has put the American people back by a hundred years. The original concept for allowing Justices to hold their seats, until death, was set up that way to guaranty that they would make good legal decisions without having to worry about being elected along party lines. And what has happened? This court is …