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Ben Carson is getting crap for saying he would have attacked the gunman in OR had he been there, and invited everyone else to join him.He is quite correct. It’s just common sense. I wrote an article advocating just that albeit with some technical details like attacking when he is changing magazines. Here’s another technical detail. Classrooms typically have two things that could be used as weapons: desks and chairs. They may also have a fire extinguisher which can be squirted at the gunman’s eyes and then when it’s empty, used to bash his head in. I think the Flight 93...

I got some complaints that my new state-of-the-art website was harder to navigate. (Johntreed.com) So I changed the “John’s blogs” page. It used to have just a list of 8 blogs: my six book subjects plus headline news and military matters. Those take you to a page with the most recent five blog posts for each category. What I changed was to make that TWO columns. The right column is the same, but the left column gives you a linked list of ALL the articles on that subject. For the headline news and military articles, that takes you essentially to...

The math geniuses who make guaranteed lottery profits.Wall Street Journal will not praise homes as investments even after 80% equity rise in 5 yearsApr 09, 2025.Wall Street Journal pushes extremely bad Rent-to-own scheme to counter high mortgage rates..Capital is often not free, but you are. Prepare to use that.Mar 01, 2025.Do NOT buy TIPS for inflation protectionFeb 15, 2025. Wall Street Journal still unwisely telling everyone now is not the time to buy a home .John T. Reed’s rules of investmentJan 03, 2025.Bengals won in OT but could have won in regulation with better clock managementDec 28, 2024. Do NOT...

I endorsed Ben Carson recently, which I never do. But I just heard Richard Dawkins speak yesterday. He debated Carson on God once. He said that Carson believes the universe is 5,000 or 6,000 years old and that Satan affected Darwin when he wrote Origin of the Species. I tried to confirm that Carson said those things on the Net. The web sites saying that generally seemed to be liberal. Although some had his own words in YouTubes. He scoffed at the Big Bang Theory. I don’t believe he used the word Satan. Rather, he said “adversary,” which may be...

Copyright John T. Reed The public never seems to have figured out that terrorism is a publicity stunt. The goal of publicity stuntmen is publicity. Did al Qaeda get publicity as a result of 9/11? It may have been the most publicity anyone ever got for anything in the history of the world. Al Qaeda’s paymasters, ultimately, were the media and the folks who watched the videos of the planes going into the WTC. Did the media broadcast those images? Sure. So we can blame the media? No. Any media outlet that did not show those images would have seen...