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Impact Investing
May 29, 2016

Capital May Evolve

Capital may evolve. Common forms of capital are money and property. For example, a newly formed corporation obtains capital from its founding shareholders in the form of cash plus equipment, land and intellectual property. The combination of these forms of capital are useful for the pursuits of the corporation. Government…
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View From Far Away In Space And Time
April 7, 2016

Neil Degrasse Tyson bon mot

Neil Degrasse Tyson formulated this: Take the history of Earth and place all aspects viewable while walking along a 100-yard ramp. Walk the entire length. At the end, step back one yard to be at the time of the dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago. Then, step off and place…
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Climate Change
March 28, 2016

Will Man-Made Climate Change Kill Man?

Nature may select to kill humans. Climate change is inevitable. Humans are the cause recently. Acceleration of warming is a particularly interesting consequence of human activity. Neither nation nor cohort can stop it. No living organism is immune from death. The universe is as indifferent to human existence as to…
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Intelligence v Lawyers
February 24, 2016

Risks Of Intelligence

  The Hidden Risks Of Being Intelligent “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~Maya Angelou   By SARAH MYERS, JD, LMFT, AC Clinical Director, Colorado Lawyer Assistance Program Intelligence is a gift, if used wisely.…
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Tax Rates
February 15, 2016

Tax Brackets For 2016

2016 Tax Brackets   This year's Federal income tax comprises 7 rate brackets: 10%, 15%, 25%, 28%, 33%, 35%, and 39.6%.  On April 15 the amount of tax owed depends upon filing status, income level, and other factors. Note: the money earned within a specific tax bracket is subject to that specific…
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Tax Rates
January 31, 2016

Hypothetical New Tax Rates

  Political party sentiment seems to invoke the past a lot, especially Reagan and the 1980s and Eisenhauer and the 1950s as the best of times. Well, let’s hearken back to the tax code of those eras to see if ideas implemented then actually worked thereafter.  Maybe we find a…
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Science and Government
December 25, 2015

Science Is Not A Belief System

Science is not a belief system. Science is a method. Science uses techniques to measure and classify things and events, assemble data, control variables, infer effects, hypothesize outcomes and more to test belief systems, and to test itself. For example, if in a science experiment a hypothesized result fails to…
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ISIS ISIL or Daesh
December 22, 2015

ISIS Profiled

  Authors Peter Boghossian and James A. Lindsay apply scientific methods to analyze the violent cult of the so-called Islamic State aka ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh:   THE APPEAL OF ISIS: Islamism, Trust, and Costly Signaling byPeter Boghossian & James A. Lindsay     As refugees flood to the West…
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Political Correctness
November 19, 2015

Coddling the American Mind

The article, The Coddling of the American Mind (The Atlantic Sept. 2015), copied below, addresses political correctness on college campuses and possible consequences. Thought and language seem to trend toward less and less challenge. A favorite old debate - Does thought create language/Does language create thought? Is political correctness the…
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Healthcare by Government
October 28, 2015

Healthcare By Government Since 1954

Get government out of health care! Oh, really? How? Eliminate Medicare? No one wants that! And wait – Medicare IS the government’s healthcare since 1965. Oh, OK. Let’s eliminate the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)! But wait again. The Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) takes health insurance away from the powerful health…
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