John T. Reed’s news blog

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...

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a blockbuster article about the value of prestigious undergraduate school and the value of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) degrees regardless of the school. To read it, Google the title: “Do Prestigious Colleges Pay Off? It depends on the Major.” I went to two prestigious schools: West Point and Harvard Business. My education at West Point was mostly STEM. The Journal article authors lump a business major with liberal arts majors. I would say the Harvard MBA is more STEMish, but okay. BS is profitable if it’s Ivy League BS The surprising conclusion of...