TRUMP v IRAN: War Powers Rules

ANALYSIS and OPINION Here’s our legal analysis regarding this vitally important age old question.  We must do things differently this time and why.  After that is our disussion of this issue with ChatGPT 5.2   You said: Rx. Could you please tell me whether under applicable law, Trump can, without first getting permission from Congress, Read More …

Gas Prices Trump & Democracy

  OPINION AND ANALYSIS: Gas prices have been noticeably falling here in December of 2025.  Should Trump get the credit?  We asked ChatGPT 5.2 and told it to be unbiased and objective. Chat’s response is at the bottom of this page.  But that’s not all.  No, our owner once again emphasizes something that’s even more Read More …

Trump Red Lines 22nd & 25th Amendments

OPINION AND ANALYSIS: Below is a video we did after Trump’s December 17, 2025 TV speech, which left most observers wondering about a lot of things.  Many felt it was a big disappointing waste of time and that the speech itself was full of misstated facts.  Trump supporters have gotten all over Biden’s former staff Read More …

Election Over Rational Government Demanded

OPINION and ANALYSIS The 2025 election results are in and Democrats resoundingly won elections around the country.   Clearly the general feeling is that Trump’s policies are not working.  What now?  There’s such a mess. The fear here is that the mess is so big that fixing everything may take decades if not longer,  We have Read More …

Spinners, Cash, Jones & 60’s Garage Tunes

[Editor’s Note:  This is the latest edition of Tick’s Notes and Tunes. It is a transcript of a fictional radio broadcast with direct links to the tunes being played.  The transcript is in 3 parts. (1.)The first is the first half of a transcript of the radio broadcast with tune links; (2.) The Editorial: (which Read More …

FREE TRADE v TARIFFS: Ricardo’s Comparative Advantage

Video about David Ricardo’s theory of Comparative Advantage. Discussion lead by David Dixon Lentz Read More …

IS FREE TRADE A GOOD THING?

The genesis of free trade theory in many ways starts with the man many consider to be the Father of Capitalism, Adam Smith.  He addressed the issue several hundred years ago in his famous book “The Wealth of Nations”.  There he showed how two countries specializing in producing and trading goods in which they have Read More …