Oath of President of the United States of America I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Oath of Members of…

AMERICA’S CIVIL WAR II 2016 . . . I think that Joe Biden would have been better off had he not visited the Gettysburg battlefields. He just loves, and keeps repeating as though it’s his own, that part of President Lincoln’s inaugural, "We are not enemies, but friends". When President Lincoln…

I recently read an excellent article by Caroline Randall Williams, a published author from Nashville, Tennessee. The article, entitled You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument was originally published in the New York Times, June 26, 2020. Ms. Williams describes her heritage as one of mixed…

A Discussion Between Saint Peter and Joe Biden Following is a short and informal history of Joe Biden’s pronouncements and stances on the issue of abortion. Like others, his stance on the practice has “evolved” over the years. However, unlike others, his stance has recently “evolved” from day to day…

Well here we have Elizabeth Warren proving, for the umpteenth time, just how ridiculous is this entire issue of identity politics and this or that special program or set-aside for some particular ethnic group. If she was simply proud of the fact that she contains some almost undetectable fraction of…

A recent 10 page document produced by a senior engineer at Google regarding the company’s diversity policy and the writer’s criticism of that policy has the company is some chaos. The company’s new “Diversity VP” responded with her own lengthy document . They are: http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320 https://www.recode.net/2017/8/5/16102476/google-diversity-vp-employee-memo

Back in the 1980s, on one of the occasions I was called to serve on jury duty, I reported to the court ready to do my duty. We sat through the judge’s instructions and then began the voir dire. Both attorneys rose and spoke for about fifteen minutes to prime…

Why People Shouldn’t Always Trust Their CPA. Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Ethics in Public Accounting! Some time ago, my brother-in-law Henry and I were discussing ethics in business and how things just seem to go wrong. Henry is a retired attorney, retired from a major law firm in Houston, Texas, and since I’m a CPA and he’s a lawyer, and from Houston, we discussed a…