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- July 07, 2024

A Nation Divided #291 By Hank Silverberg Commentary Much has been made over the past year or so about the gro...

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Hank Silverberg: Fredericksburg, VA, United States; I have spent 40 years as a journalist and I have written three books. Now I try to give back some of the knowledge to the students I teach at Northern Virginia Community College

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This blog consists of my input on issues both big and small. The opinions are mine alone and not affiliated with any group or organization.

Hank Silverberg: Fredericksburg, VA, United States; I have spent 40 years as a journalist and I have written three books. Now I try to give back some of the knowledge to the students I teach at Northern Virginia Community College

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A Taxing Week By Hank Silverberg A few years back while doing a story on the financial stability of a local hospital, I was reading through the facility's annual report. It kept referring to “negative patient outcome,” and it took me a few minutes to realize they were talking about the death rate among patients. Over the years, while covering numerous county boards and city councils, I often heard politicians talk about the need for more “revenue enhancements,” and it was clear that "revenue enhancements" was a code word for taxes. So, I begin this week’s blog with an old saying slightly modified. There is nothing certain in life except negative patient outcome and revenue enhancements. It’s been a taxing week. I had to write a fairly large check to the U.S. Treasury to meet the April 15 th income tax deadline, and like millions of Americans, I am not happy about it. Don’t get me wrong. I fully believe that each citizen should pay their fair share of...

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A Year After Insurrection #204 by Hank Silverberg At the end of this week we will mark an ugly milestone in American history. It will be one year since hundreds of people stormed the U.S. Capitol with the intent of overturning the fair election of Joe Biden and disrupting one of the main tenets of our Republic: the peaceful transition of power. More than 700 individuals have been charged with crimes for their participation in the attacks, and so far more than 50 have been convicted. January 6 Capitol Riot Arrests (usatoday.com) At least seven members of Congress have been named for helping to plan the event along with some of former President Trump's staff, though none have been criminally charged. More disgusting: very few Republican members of Congress have even expressed outrage over the violence and the attempt to overturn the election even thought it actual...

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We Need a Real Leader By Hank Silverberg 2018 is in the books. As I wrote last week, it was NOT a good year, though certainly not the worst either. Is there hope for 2019? I’d like to answer that with some humor, but I’m not Dave Barry and I lost my sense of humor about two hours into the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. Many things went wrong this past year. Though the economy has been running at high speed with low unemployment, there’s a good chance it will run out of gas in 2019, or worse, crash into a tree because those driving it have been careless. Just this past month, the President created volatility in the Stock Market simply by attacking, in a TWEET, the Federal Reserve Board’s interest rate decisions. And for much of the year he wreaked havoc on the global economy by imposing tariffs on certain foreign goods, prompting retaliatory tariffs by both friend and foe. Those tariffs may spell real trouble for the world...

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