Who Cares About Our Future?
My column titled "What Handouts to Cut?" created a number of angry responses, and for the first time in my life, I had some, not much, sympathy for political...
About: Dennis Behreandt
Posts by Dennis Behreandt
Medical Care Facts and Fables
There is so much political spin, and so many numbers games being played, when it comes to medical care, that we have to go back to square one and...
Drone Attack Kills 20 in Attack on Insurgents in Pakistan
A strike from an unmanned aerial vehicle killed 20 people in Pakistan on August 23. According to Reuters news service, "missiles fired from a U.S. pilotless drone aircraft killed...
Dismantling America, Part 4
How did we get to the point where many people feel that the America they have known is being replaced by a very different kind of country, with not...
Dismantling America, Part 3
One of the few campaign promises that Barack Obama has kept was this: "We are going to change the United States of America!" As in many other cases, those...
Black Hole Eruption Compared to Volcano in Iceland
A giant black hole is putting on a spectacular show and scientists at NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory have captured the action. The black hole, located in galaxy M87, is...
Dismantling America, Part 2
"We the people" are the central concern of the Constitution, as well as its opening words, since it is a Constitution for a self-governing nation. But "we the people"...
Will Republicans Save Us?
Democrat control of the White House, House of Representatives and the Senate has produced an unprecedented level of political brazenness and contempt for the limitations placed on the federal...
Dismantling America
"We the people" are the familiar opening words of the Constitution of the United States — the framework for a self-governing people, free from the arbitrary edicts of rulers. It...
There’s Theory and There’s Reality
The great American statesmen J. Reuben Clark Jr. noted: “Tradition has it that Solon, the great law-giver declared in reply to the taunt ‘Are these the best laws you...
Never Try
It’s one of the most penetrating statements ever uttered in the modern age, so insightful that in 2007 it was added to the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations. What...
To Fix the Economy, Let’s Try the Constitution
After two years of economic turmoil it seems that the message that governments are spending too much money is finally getting out. In fact, the crisis today is solely...
Bean-Counters and Baloney
The bean-counters have struck again — this time in the sports pages. Two New York Times sport writers have discovered that baseball coaches from minority groups are found more often...
Real or Imagined? A Critical Review of the SPLC’s List of Conspiracies
The indefatigable Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), whose professed aim is "fighting hate and bigotry," and "tracking and exposing the activities of hate groups," has released another study of...
Bringing America Home
Talk about self-evident patriotism! In Tom Pauken’s latest, Bringing America Home, here is a writer who’s heart and mind unabashedly rings out ‘God! Family! Country!’ from cover to...