Month: February 2025

The Future You Want Starts Today A wake-up call for the young—or a reminder that every journey begins with a single step.

Based on BlackRock’s latest findings, a recent Business Weekly report delivers a stark reality check: retirement security is slipping away for many. Over the past 50 years, the landscape has shifted—fewer pensions, greater reliance on 401(k)s and IRAs, and perhaps a decline in the work ethic and core virtues that once defined financial responsibility. This

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Judicial Overreach and the People’s Money: A Dangerous Precedent – An Opinion/Editorial

U.S. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told the press what USAID has been funding. She said, “These are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on: $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia’s workplaces. $70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland. $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia.

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Following the Audit Trail: Who Approved USAID’s Questionable Expenditures? And more questions, too.

We’ve all heard by now how the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uncovered questionable expenditures by USAID—spending that appears inconsistent with the agency’s stated mission of international development. The dollar amounts and nature of the expenditures have been laid out. The accountability trail remains—the names, signatures, and justifications behind each transaction. The paper trail exists

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The Integrity of Jury Trials: Are We Letting Fear Decide Justice?

Survival isn’t always a deliberate, rational decision.Sometimes, it’s instinct.Fight or flight.Freeze or flee.Claw, bite, or play dead. In the wild, these responses keep animals alive. In the courtroom, they’re being weaponized to win cases. What should be a pursuit of justice—where facts, law, and reasoned deliberation determine outcomes—is being hijacked by a strategy that preys

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On Jimmy Buffet and Solomon – Finding Answers through the Mists of Life or The Hevel of It All: Life, Loss, and the Kingdom to Come

Today is a trundle of a lifetime with echoes of Ecclesiastes found in a contemporary song by Jimmy Buffet. It is a long one. 700 words. Jimmy Buffet’s song “He Went To Paris” has stayed with me from the first time I heard it. Some songwriters, like Jimmie and Joni Mitchell in “Both Sides Now”,

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