Author: Bob Dreizler

Nineteen Sixty Nine was a memorable year for me. I celebrated my twenty first birthday on the last day of Woodstock.  No, I wasn’t at the festival.  The mud on …

“The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout.  There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, and prejudices— to be found only in the …

I’m a numbers geek.  Numbers that end with a zero titillate me.  Recently I noticed the date July 9, 1979 on one of the many registrations I’m required to post …

The stock market and the economy are not the same things, but they are often correlated. The President’s Tweets, on the other hand, frequently correlate with neither truth nor facts. …

I just finished listening to President Trump’s rambling and slightly crazed comments that preceded his declaration of a NATIONAL EMERGENCY.  Before getting to the poorly-delivered punch line, he reminded us …

Those who know me well know that I’ve been a fiscal conservative since I was in high school. To me that means trying to live within a budget, even if …

I started calling myself “semi-retired” in 2004.   I was sitting on a beach in Kauai writing my newsletter when I took a fancy to this concept.  Last month I …

NOTE: In July of 2005 I wrote a commentary, The Fifth of July, where I examined my patriotism in the Age of George Bush 2. Scooter Libby, VP Dick Cheney’s …