Opinions

Forget Kim Jong Un and his missiles.
Forget Russian meddling in elections and fomenting unrest around the world.
Forget James Comey’s firing and the chaos that has gripped Washington D.C. over the last five months.
Those aren’t our problems. [Full Story »] 

Here’s a hankie. You can wipe the tears from your eyes with it. And you can wipe out the fake dollar signs that have clouded your vision in recent years.
You were wrong. [Full Story »] 

President Trump has just completed his first 100 days in office. While that’s an arbitrary time for a snapshot, it does give the American people a little taste of how any new president will operate during his tenure.
Let’s take a look at Trump’s first 100 days: [Full Story »] 

Fire me. Please
Fire me and give me $25 million to go away.
That’s what Fox News did last week with its star personality, Bill O’Reilly. [Full Story »] 

Americans generally support a free enterprise, open market economic system. We have a disdain for government control and regulations. That was one reason Donald Trump was elected president. Many of his core supporters like the idea of “government being run like a business.”
That assumes, of course, that businesses are superior ethically to government.
But that isn’t always the case, as several recent examples have dramatically demonstrated.
Big businesses are no more moral or ethical than big government. Institutional values, good or bad, can be found in any situation. And while the notion that competition tempers businesses to “do good” while the lack of competition encourages government to embrace corruption is popular, that isn’t always how it works out. [Full Story »] 

When you are in the middle of change, it’s often difficult to notice. The day-to-day routine mutes the larger picture of what’s happening around us. It’s like having a baby, then waking up one day and realizing they’re adults. When did that happen?
That’s the situation happening all around us today. The nation, and the world, is undergoing a huge transformation. It’s larger and broader than the Industrial Revolution and its impact will be felt for generations to come.
This transformation is the perfect storm and is causing a massive amount of dislocation. It’s a tidal wave of change that is affecting us economically, socially and politically — all at once. [Full Story »] 

Social media is a double-edge sword. It offers a way for people to share family information, photos of grandchildren, etc.
But it’s also a wasteland of rumors, gossip, petty jealousies, stupid memes and political manipulation.
We saw the latter during last year’s elections when the Russians, via WikiLeaks, flooded social media with fake news and leaked emails designed to boost Trump’s campaign. Despite the nuttiness of much of those posts, people believed them to an unsettling degree. (Their actual impact on the election, however, is debatable. And whether the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians in those efforts has yet to be discovered.) [Full Story »] 

A part of me — the bad part — wanted to see Trumpcare pass the House last week.
If that plan had gotten both House and Senate approval and became law, the people who would have been hurt the most would have been Trump supporters, many of whom are of the age needing healthcare.
In politics, I often like how karma works. [Full Story »] 

A bill in the Georgia Legislature got a committee Ok last week to expand the use of medical CBD cannabis oil in the state.
In addition to using cannabis oil for seizures and other conditions, this legislation, if approved by the full House and Senate and signed by Gov. Nathan Deal, would add Alzheimer’s, AIDS, autism, epidermolysis bullosa, peripheral neuropathy and Tourette’s syndrome.
In addition, any hospice patient could have the oil no matter what their diagnosis.
In 2015, the state approved the possession of having up to 20 oz. of high CBD cannabis oil for cancer, Parkinson’s and epilepsy patients. [Full Story »]