Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 55

Sesame Krispies

Rice krispie candy lends itself very well to adding other flavors.

Corpseman resurrected: correcting Betsy DeVos

The left has once again decided that the way those people speak is ignorant, and that those people are too stupid to hold public office.

Is Trump calling the bluff of establishment Republicans?

By appointing Republicans who have promised to reduce government into the very areas they’ve promised to depower, is Trump calling the establishment’s bluff?

Consumption vs. Income vs. Sales

I would love to be convinced that consumption taxes are a better idea than income taxes. But I just don’t see how politicians wouldn’t find it easier to muck up a consumption tax worse than they’ve mucked up income taxes. Is convincing Americans to switch from an income tax to a sales tax an effective use of resources?

Pryor Oklahoma: The Book Exchange on Highway 69

Hidden just one block off of Highway 69 in Pryor, Oklahoma, you really have no reason to skip a visit to this small but packed bookstore.

Is job loss to automation inevitable?

We aren’t losing jobs to automation. We’re losing jobs to an impenetrable regulatory morass and artificial costs added by establishment politicians. Punishing companies for having businesses in the United States only makes companies not start up in the United States.

Bay Leaf Books in Newaygo is closing

Due to health issues, Bay Leaf Books in Newaygo will close in early 2017.

Why is the country so divided?

Because you keep trying to tell everyone else what to do.

The Art of Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking

If you’re on a diet, you want to avoid this book. But, as the saying goes, “Neither a fat wife nor a full barn ever did any man harm!”

Election lessons: be careful what you wish for

Republicans should learn from the Democrats’ mistake of the primary season: be careful what you wish for, you might just get… half of it. They wanted Donald Trump as Hillary Clinton’s opponent.