This decrease has been a long time coming. In 2006. population growth was at breakeven. I documented this in “population is growing at the rate of almost 1 percent per year, Angry Bear. Joel Garreau wrote the article in Smithsonian “300 Million and Counting” and It was in 2006 when the United States was at […]

Coming from a man who is overweight? It appears as if they are doctoring Trump’s appearance also. Maybe, I am the last to notice this> “‘Disgusting’: Republicans Applaud as Trump Brags About Taking Food Aid from Millions,” Common Dreams US President Donald Trump received a standing ovation from Republican lawmakers and administration officials Tuesday night when he […]

April 28, 2026 Letters from an American – by Heather Cox Richardson There is a frenzied feeling to the news coming from the White House these days. Yesterday, the administration tried to blame Democrats and the media for the incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, when Secret Service agents apprehended a […]

– by J.P. McJefferson J.P. McJefferson Thoughts Americans are frustrated—and increasingly, they are unified in that frustration. Congress’s approval ratings have been mostly underwater since 1974, averaging 28% approval and 65% disapproval. That’s 52 years, five decades of massive disapproval! They look at Congress and see dysfunction. They look at the executive branch and see […]

The one-handed economist Sometimes you just want the answer David Zetland “AI’s impacts on learning“ AI is changing nearly everything digital around us, for better (search; analysis) and for worse (cybercrime), but its impacts on education are, I think, much larger than many people understand. Learning is more about process than output. I wrote this […]

A year later, here’s where things stand on Trump’s manufacturing revival . . . What happened when Trump put a stack of tariffs into play? Not much good is happening for Labor, In the first place the amount of Labor in manufacturing has been declining for years due to manual machining going to multi-functional NC […]

Photo by Louis Velazquez on Unsplash J.P. McJefferson Thoughts – J.P. McJefferson In the year marking the United States Semi quincentennial, dozens of members of Congress—from both parties—will quietly make a consequential decision: they will not return. Most coverage treats this as routine political churn—retirements, career moves, the normal rhythm of electoral life. But in a Congress defined […]

“J.P. McJefferson Thoughts“ J.P. McJefferson As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, the condition of its governing institutions presents a paradox. The American experiment is not collapsing. It is not even failing in the conventional sense. It is, instead, stalled—caught in a pattern of predictable conflict and diminishing returns that sustains conflict without producing […]

Easter, and the Rites of Spring Whatever else you think of them, those early Christians were brilliant marketers. They took the ancient pagan festival of Saturnalia and turned it into Christmas, and then they gave us Easter, which is really a lightly disguised celebration of spring, something virtually every civilization has. Remember, they aren’t celebrating […]

How We Get Rid of “Citizens United,” Robert Reich This week’s video is important. It shows a clear path to getting rid of the Supreme Court’s horrific 2010 decision Citizens United vs. Federal Election Committee. That decision opened the floodgates to campaign spending by giant corporations. The high court reasoned that corporations are people who have First Amendment […]