America The Not-So-Beautiful Anymore
After a week or so away from the keyboard, I decided there was too much to hold back any longer. So, today, after a visit to the doctor, because my entire family have the flu, I watched as Chuck Hagel was unceremoniously embarrassed (rightfully so) in his confirmation hearing, then sat down to write [...]
What Difference Does It Make?
The last couple of days have been highlighted in the news by the testimony of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the House and Senate. I’ve seen the now viral video of her “exploding” back at Senator Johnson’s questioning concerning the Benghazi ‘incident.’ The Senator wanted to know why what the truth was about [...]
How Constitutional Civics Will Benefit Our Broken School System
Cold shoulders from Liberals on the school board and berating from our local press are but a few of the reactions to the excellent idea a friend of mine has for using “The 5000 Year Leap” as a textbook in our local high school Civics classes. The friend, who is a member of the [...]
The Race to Eliminate Race
This is the column that’s going to make me famous or make me radioactive. I’m white. My wife is Asian. My sister is white. My brother in law is black. Who the hell cares? All of our kids are mixed race. We never talk about race except to joke about the idiots that [...]
The Union Onion
Matthew Harrison’s complaint about unionized teachers could not be better stated. I hope he sees this as an interesting addendum to his own poignant thoughts. A union is like an onion. You peel the bitter layers of forced unionization, legal representation for people that obviously should be fired, strong-armed embezzlement of taxpayers through [...]
Trans-global Somnambulism – How Foreign Ideas Arrive Here Sleepily Unaware of the American Idea
Nothing is as awesome as getting totally drunk in a public park and singing karaoke at the top of your lungs during the daytime. This kind of behavior is accepted…in Japan. It’s a foreign idea called ‘hanami,’ which means ‘flower watching,’ and it occurs in April as soon as the cherry blossoms begin [...]
Some Logic For Anti-Gun Zealots
Recently the NRA released a pretty comprehensive list of organizations and “celebrities” who support gun control. It is a long list, and includes the usual suspects-doctors groups, lefty organizations who are on-board with total government control, and a long list of actors, producers, directors, etc., all of whom at one time or another have [...]
The “Regulatory Cliff”
My grandparents lived high on a hill overlooking the bottom land that contained grandpa’s garden space. That land was bordered by a small and benign creek that was slowly eroding the land, and on occasion during summer storms, was not benign and caused crop ruining flooding. To protect the garden from erosion and flooding [...]
America’s Foreign Policy Failure
In light of what has recently occurred in the Middle East and Africa and what is presently occurring in Syria, I find it disheartening to see that once again we are destined for history to repeat itself in a vicious cycle of malfeasance and ignorance on the part of the U.S. Government. The application [...]
Who is Stealing My Potatoes?
Now that we have embarked on a new year and the Democrats are already rattling their sabers and threatening to tax American citizens even more than they did just recently, I thought it might be time for a real-world review of how taxes work down in the trenches among those of us who work for [...]
