By Michael P. Riccards In 1944, Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, commonly known as the GI Bill. Originated by the American Legion, the act provided a series of benefits for returning veterans. Only about… Read More ›
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Is baseball hypocritcal about technology?
By Michael P. Riccards With the nation knee-deep in the pandemic and the loss of the spring, it appears very likely that at best we will have a truncated baseball season if any at all. Some of us believe that… Read More ›
The demise of Kamala Harris
By Michael P. Riccards Another of the many Democrats for president has bit the ugly dust. Senator Kamala Harris of California has said she just cannot raise enough money to continue her quest. What she should say is that people… Read More ›
Are we doing enough to educate ourselves about the impeachment process?
By Michael P. Riccards The American Founding Fathers were extremely concerned about the uses and abuses of power. They gave the nation a system of divisions of powers, and its intention was to checkmate sudden change or grabs for territory… Read More ›
Voter ignorance makes the media cover elections as entertainment
By Michael P. Riccards We have spent a small fortune on examining whether the Russian government in 2016 has tried to influence the presidential election. Of course they did, and the U.S. government has tried to influence abroad since World… Read More ›
The talented journalists at the NYT should give us more than anti-Trump venom
By Michael P. Riccards Sometime ago, the New York Times sent a glossy brochure to its loyal subscribers which was a remarkable and expensive defense of how the newspaper comprises its editions and the various department that it uses. It… Read More ›
It makes little sense to impeach the president
By Michael P. Riccards The impeachment clause in the Constitution is in the document for rare and stark misconduct and treason. When the Jeffersonians started to use that clause to clean out the Federalist judiciary, the legislative branch finally balked…. Read More ›
Just shake my hand, please
By Michael P. Riccards With the new legions of Democrats. we are being overwhelmed with candidates for president of the United States. Last time I wrote about the senior statesmen of the party, Vice President Joseph Biden, and suggested he… Read More ›
Joe Biden: Everybody’s drinking buddy, but no one’s favorite commander-in-chief
By Michael P. Riccards As the Democrats are all revved up to defeat Trump in 2020, they are realizing the old truism – you cannot beat someone with no one. Increasingly the name of Joe Biden, age 75, is coming… Read More ›