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By Jim Holland The topic is inflation, the inflation expected from the proposed proposed social spending bill styled Build, Back Better and the reasoning of famous conservative economist Milton Friedman about inflation. Milton Friedman famously said, “Inflation is always and
Read moreUnseasonably warm, less than two inches of rain in the last 60 days, high sere, dormant pasture grass. Mix those ingredients with 20 to 30 to 40 mph winds sweeping up and down the plains and you have the
Read moreBy Jim Holland The mailing lists of the Social Security Administration contains millions of names of citizens alive when America was bombed and torpedoed in wars with Japan. There were far fewer octogenarians in America in 1861, but count of
Read moreOn a recent night of perusing the AM radio dial, I alit on a propheteering preacher railing about today’s “decadence,” and comparing it to the immorality that wrecked the Roman Empire. I have heard that platitude for more
Read moreThere has been much political gnashing of teeth since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that much of eastern Oklahoma is under tribal/federal legal jurisdiction. At issue is tribal sovereignty to handle criminal cases committed on Indian land.
Read moreFrom their embrace of minority voting restrictions, misogyny, racism and isolationism, one might think today’s GOPQ wanted a return to the 1950s. But, that Q element that they have added to their identity negates that idea. QAnon conspiracy
Read moreOn Friday, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland – a member of Laguna Pueblo – ordered that the term “squaw” be removed from federal land designations. It should be pointed out that the term is a slur referring to female
Read moreBy Jim Holland The Red River is red and the Missouri River muddy. Why, you might ask? Well, it is by law: the second law of thermodynamics. That law states that the entropy (deterioration) of any isolated system always
Read more“Is this what you’ve been looking for?” And, with that, an East Texas good ol’ boy threw the last ivory-billed woodpecker that anyone ever saw alive onto Archer Fullingim’s desk in his newspaper office in Kountze, Texas, with
Read moreBy Jim Holland A Child Tax Credit increase is the brightest line item of President Biden’s legislative package that is to be enacted under the Budget Reconciliation rule. The Child Tax Credit is sometimes presented as a negative
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