Circa 1965, a man pulled into our driveway, told my father he had “macadam left over from a job down the street,” and he would “repair your driveway for half the usual cost – and do it right away.” He had a nice guy, happy-to-help-out demeanor, and my father fell for a scam that has […]

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  In America, we’re (almost) all socialists. We just don’t know it. Communism is a cute, feel-good idea: Everyone is economically equal, but as we learned from Russia and China, communism doesn’t work. One person soon takes a shine to power and all the yes-men minions that go with it. Next thing you know, the […]

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