Previously, we’ve discussed picking fiduciaries among families. Couples often have each other as the principal fiduciary–power of attorney, personal representative–and then choose one or the other of their adult children as alternates. Yet, in some instances it is either impracticable or, yes, unwise, to have a family member as a [...]
By his own admission Colonel “Ace” Azimov was not the world’s greatest fighter pilot (this is so you’ll know this is a fictional character). Flew Jugs during WW II, F-51s in Korea. Married his childhood sweetheart, Melba, when he came back from the war. Raised four kids and retired here [...]
Last month, we looked into how we might help our retired fighter pilot Ace Azimov with his finances when it became apparent he was no longer able to manage them himself. We arranged for a professional conservator to manage his money and finances, while still keeping him substantially independent. Ace [...]
I was honored recently to be invited to a dinner meeting of the El Paso County Medical Society’s Medical Ethics committee. Surrounded by people of vastly greater distinction and achievement in the fields of philosophy, medicine, and law, I could only eat quietly and try to absorb what was being [...]
Revisionists have spent the last fifty years trying hard to excise Thanksgiving from among those few remaining holidays with expressly religious origins. We are told that the Founding Fathers were atheists, agnostics, or, at best Deists. A certain elementary school I know advised its students that the first Thanksgiving was [...]
Most of us are familiar with VA disability compensation. We know it is income-tax free, is based upon service connected or service aggravated disability, and can replace on a dollar-for-dollar basis military retired pay, thus providing the retired veteran with a modest tax break. This is not about concurrent receipt [...]
Most of us are familiar with VA disability compensation. We know it is income-tax free, is based upon service connected or service aggravated disability, and can replace on a dollar-for-dollar basis military retired pay, thus providing the retired veteran with a modest tax break. This is not about concurrent receipt [...]
Chapel was mandatory at USAFA. Every Sunday morning we would actually march by squadron to chapel. Equal protection — Feh! The Protestants had it good upstairs, the Catholics not-so-grand downstairs, Jews had a still smaller area. Don’t recall an Islamic or Buddhist place of worship. Even then there were those [...]
Revisionists have spent the last fifty years trying hard to excise Thanksgiving from among those few remaining holidays with expressly religious origins. We are told that the Founding Fathers were atheists, agnostics, or, at best Deists. A certain elementary school I know advised its students that the first Thanksgiving was [...]
In 480 B.C. at Thermopylae a fabled band of a few hundred Spartans, Thespians, and Thebans under King Leonidas I of Sparta held off the Persian hoards of Xerxes I for three days, buying with their lives sufficient time for the Greeks to withdraw and consolidate their forces for the [...]