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3 weeks ago | thinkamerican.news | Joe Kefauver

As our nation’s economy has transitioned from agrarian-based, through the Industrial Revolution, and now to a largely technology-based economy, the drivers of those economies have appropriately changed as well. Gone largely are plowshares and draft horses as well as smoke stacks and smelters. What drives our technology-based economy now is energy – mainly electric energy – and policymakers must start considering the cost implications of this new economic era for Americans.

1 month ago | thinkamerican.news | Greg Maresca

Pete Rose was not even cold when Major League Baseball’s (MLB) commissioner Rob Manfred lifted his “permanent ban” from the game. Banned for betting on baseball in 1989, Rose predicted he would be reinstated after his death, a wager he never got to collect.  Rose died at 83 in September. Rose is the all-time MLB leader in hits, games played, at-bats, and singles.

1 month ago | thinkamerican.news | Joe Kefauver

As a longtime student of political history, I am fascinated with how, over long periods of time, political parties can move their positioning on an issue – sometimes to the polar opposite of where the party was, say, 50 years earlier. Whether it is their positions on foreign policy, world leadership, immigration, taxation or their relationships with Corporate America, our major parties prove themselves to be living, breathing, evolving entities.

1 month ago | thinkamerican.news | Greg Maresca

Uncle Sam’s bureaucratic and bloated 438 federal agencies deal with nearly every facet of American life. A pared-down and properly functioning federal government should protect its citizenry by defending and advancing liberty through the rule of law. One way is through a strong and resilient military. Supporting the military is one of the few things Uncle Sam absolutely must do. Team Biden left the world a more dangerous place and America weaker than they found it.

2 months ago | thinkamerican.news | Joe Kefauver

There are probably few policymaking challenges for our elected officials more difficult than balancing the interplay between progress and policy. Innovation is the life blood of any capitalist economy and new ideas, new products and new services keep economies healthy and growing. And if innovation is the lifeblood, consumerism is the engine. There must be people to buy the products the economy creates to keep the circle going.