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Harris Sherline

Harris R. Sherline is a retired certified public accountant and executive, whose conservative commentaries appear weekly in two California newspapers. His web blog is "Opinionfest.com."

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» Giving Back

By Harris Sherline | Published Today | From Our Writers | Unrated

The best time to “give back” is when you have the background, expertise, and skills to make a difference.

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» Political Promises

By Harris Sherline | Published 06/28/2009 | From Our Writers | Unrated

After 30 years, Senator Bill Richardson’s book is still available--at Amazon.com. It’s an interesting and entertaining insight into the political process and confirms the fact that things really haven’t changed all that much since he was in office.

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» Character Matters: Irena Sandler

By Harris Sherline | Published 06/25/2009 | From Our Writers | Unrated

This is the story of a woman who routinely risked her life for two years during the Nazi occupation of Poland to help Jewish infants and children, a woman who received little if any recognition for her selfless, sustained acts of heroism and asked for nothing in return.

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» The Coming Pension Disaster

By Harris Sherline | Published 06/20/2009 | From Our Writers | Unrated

State by state, county by county, city by city, we hear and read about the problems of underfunding of the nation's pension plans. But, we don't hear much about the potential threat that pension liabilities pose to the entire economic structure of the nation.

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» Obama vs. Israel

By Harris Sherline | Published 06/18/2009 | From Our Writers | Unrated

One recent incident that undoubtedly has many people scratching their heads and questioning Obama’s judgment is a recent photo-op in his office, feet propped up on his desk showing the soles of his shoes while talking on the phone with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister.

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» We Do Not Need an "Apologist-in-Chief"

By Harris Sherline | Published 06/13/2009 | From Our Writers | Unrated

Who asked Barack Obama to run around the world apologizing for America and, by implication, all Americans? Certainly not the American people. Nor have we seen any polls or news stories reporting that Americans want the president to apologize to anyone on their behalf.

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» Character Matters, and the Example of Harry Truman

By Harris Sherline | Published 06/3/2009 | From Our Writers | Unrated

One of the most notable examples of a political leader who did not take advantage of his position is Harry Truman, who retired after he left office, returned to his home in Missouri, and lived out his days in the same house he and his wife occupied before they went to Washington.

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» The California Lottery

By Harris Sherline | Published 05/31/2009 | From Our Writers | Unrated

All of which puts me in mind of Mark Twain’s oft quoted observation, ''Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.'' Something about this whole lottery business strikes me as being not right.

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» Taking God Out of Everything

By Harris Sherline | Published 05/23/2009 | From Our Writers | Unrated

For the record, I am not a Christian and I do not attend any church, and I cannot recall a single instance in my long life when I was offended or harmed in any way by public expressions of Christian religious belief or simply an acknowledgement of God.

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» Thinking About Minorities

By Harris Sherline | Published 05/21/2009 | From Our Writers | Unrated

Are you a member of some minority group and, if so, how has it affected your life, your beliefs and values, your perceptions of others, your friends and associates, your job or profession, your expectations, and of course, your day-to-day activities?

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Blogs by this Author

Tax Facts From a CPA

Published 05/31/2008

With the due date for filing individual income tax returns having recently passed, this seems like a good time to reflect on the annual ritu...

Everyone Is Prejudiced

Published 08/29/2008

America claims to have the goal of eliminating all forms of prejudice: color, race, creed, gender, sexual preference, financial status, age, religion, and et...

The NAFTA Superhighway

Published 09/27/2008

I’m no longer surprised by the fact that politicians and bureaucrats generally try to hide many of their actions from public view, especially those that may ...

California's 2008 Ballot: More Taxes, As Usual

Published 10/4/2008

The “Official Voter Information Guide” for the November election recently arrived in our mailbox. After giving it the usual once-over, I was stru...

Pass a Law, Fix a Problem

Published 11/22/2008

How many laws do we pass to fix problems, only to find out that they don’t fix anything and often make things worse? Sometimes laws are pa...

PC Is BS (Bad Speech)

Published 01/11/2009

Has the endless barrage of “politically correct” (PC) rules that we are subjected to nowadays finally overcome our nation’s treasured right of fr...

Hyperinflation: Be Very Afraid

Published 01/17/2009

Unless our political leaders wake up and change course, we are headed for hyperinflation. We’re not there yet, but I believe we are on the cusp, ...

Musings, Mine and Others

Published 04/18/2009

The media not only reports but often hypes statistics about unemployment and other matters without troubling to put the information into context. &nb...

Letter to a U.S. Senator

Published 05/2/2009

Below is a letter that I wrote in March, 1999, to the U.S. senator who was heading the Republican Presidential Task Force at that time. Re-reading...

Why Do We Continue to Support the United Nations?

Published 06/6/2009

Why do we continue to support the United Nations (U.N.), as if it actually has any credibility or influence left? Unfortunately, in many respects the U.N. ha...