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Dick Baynton

STUART REVERCOMB: We Will Greatly Miss The Indefatigable Dick Baynton

EDITOR'S UPDATE:Three days after sending the note that follows (March 17 - his last communication with us) Dick passed away while awaiting the possible surgery he mentions below. Per...

DICK BAYNTON: March Public Service Announcements

Following are two public service announcements that were forwarded to members of the ‘Big Lick...

DICK BAYNTON: Healthcare U.S.A.

The total cost of healthcare in the US was about 18% of GDP in 2019;...

DICK BAYNTON: Life and Death In Idlib Province, Syria

Syria, about the size of North Dakota with a population of about 17 million people...

DICK BAYNTON: Political Sophistry

Recently I heard one of the current band of presidential candidates whine that he had...

DICK BAYNTON: Amy Wax – Truth Teller

There may not be a single reader of this column who knows the name Amy Wax who has about as many degrees as a...

DICK BAYNTON: Hatred Is Not A Strategy

It is highly probable that most of us would believe that hatred could be appropriately defined by the plans and actions of Adolf Hitler...

Dick Baynton: The Enemy Among Us

One of our Wyoming readers sent an E-Mail this week that included an op-ed in The New Your Post that was attributed to Charles...

DICK BAYNTON: A New Kind of Crony Capitalism

Today’s column is about companies named ‘Tesla’, ‘Solar City’, ‘SpaceX’, PayPal,  X.com, Zip2, OpenAI (Artificial Intelligence), The Boring Company (pneumatic tube travel), Neuralink (integrating...

DICK BAYNTON: The Hypocrisy of Teachers Unions

Newspapers, TV, Internet and radio have been following the recent teacher’s strikes in Oklahoma, Arizona and West Virginia. Strikes, demonstrations, pickets with signs and...

DICK BAYNTON: Teenage Workers – Participate and Liberate

When high school graduates hung up their diplomas during and after WWII, Korea and Vietnam, many chose or were required to enter one of...