JFK Assassination & New Evidence November 22, 2023 marked the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s death. A current Gallop poll shows 65% of Americans do not believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Some years it has been as high as 81% (Gallop Poll Nov. 2023; https://news.gallup.com/poll/514310/decades-later-americans-doubt-lone-gunman-killed-jfk.aspx). There seems […]
Author: J. Perdue
U.S. Deficit: Why so high and where do we go from here?
I recently read an article that referenced a Jeff Sachs’ article about our federal debt. According to Sachs, in 2000, the US Federal debt was $3.5 trillion, roughly 35% of GDP, Gross Domestic Product. For those not familiar with economics (me), GDP is the monetary value of services and goods. […]
RFK Jr. ~ Who is this guy?
I didn’t know much about Robert Kennedy Jr. so I decided to watch a few interviews of him, after finding some on YouTube. People such as Megyn Kelly, who has worked at Fox News and NBC, and Michael Smerconish, who has a show on CNN, and other people less well […]
Summer String Summit at the Avery Theatre. It was a great performance and thought it deserved my praise
Avery Theatre July 9, 2023 My wife and I enjoyed an evening at the Avery Sunday. We watched and listened to the Summer String Summit, that included a mix of instruments and talent. Some bluegrass, a little jazz, some original songs. The musicianship was amazing, from Tristan Clarridge on cello […]
Censorship
Threat To Our democracy It was over a year ago that the FBI director publicly said our biggest threat is “domestic terrorism.” I don’t know if he was referring to white supremacists, or what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6, or violence that broke out during Black Lives Matter […]
Guatemalans at the Border
A few months ago, while watching the news, a segment dealing with the border came on, which seems to be a regular occurrence lately. It was mentioned that large number of asylum seekers are coming from Guatemala and I wondered why, what is going on in Guatemala that would cause […]
Wildfires, Water and Wisdom
I moved to California in the fall of 1975, and within a year, we were in a two-year drought. I looked online to see how many droughts we have experienced in CA since 1975, and the answer is 6. The length, in years varied from that 2-year drought, 1976-’77, to […]