John T. Reed’s news blog

Presidential candidates say and promise a ton of things. No president in the 20th century really affected the nation much except Hoover and FDR. No doubt some who were not alive during Hoover/FDR will say Reagan won the Cold War. Not really. It would have ended around the same time even if he had never been president. It actually ended after he left office. Plus winning the Cold War was a lot easier than winning the hot one—World War II—which FDR did. The two major events of the 20th century The two major events of the 20th century were the Great Depression...

Have you noticed this phraseology in the media question about what to do about the 11 million illegals who are currently here. “So what’re you gonna do, candidate? Round ’em all up?”And there are a number of other phrases alluding to kicking in doors in the middle of the night, “separating families,” and so on.It should be obvious that the questioners who talk like this believe it is impossible to deport 11 million illegals, or want to believe it. These phrases are intended to depict inhuman, Nazi-like tactics and concentration camps and the like.In a courtroom, I would object that...

An article in the December 15, 1890 issue of the Harvard Law Review, written by attorney Samuel D. Warren and future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, entitled The Right To Privacy, is often cited as the first implicit declaration of a U.S. right to privacy. There is no right of privacy in the Constitution Exactly. It’s not in the Constitution in spite of abortion activists repeating that ritualistically. But somehow, the “right of privacy” has become equal to rights like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and ideas like democracy and the rule of law. No privacy for...

I reviewed Trump’s book Art of the Deal back when it was on the best-seller list in December 1987. The review is so old that I did not have an electronic copy of it. I hd to manually transcribe it. Here it is. My review of The Art of the Deal As you know, Donald Trump is full of himself. And your buying his book will make him even more full of himself. It can’t be helped. The book has too many useful insights for real estate investors to pass it up. Read it. Theses days, when I pick up...

I have never cared for The Donald and I think reality TV shows like Survivor are idiotic, so I scoffed at his recent TV series, The Apprentice, when I first heard about it. I never intended to watch it, but I caught glimpses of it when channel surfing and saw discussions of it in various places. I ended up watching a good bit of the next-to-last show and all of the final show. I must admit that I now like The Donald much more than I expected, and I found the show to be instructive regarding management. Real estate investors need to...