Opinion
U.S. Government Ran $100 Billion Deficit in October
The Treasury reported total government receipts of $253 billion for the month of October, while total outlays were $353 billion. The U.S. taxpayer...
Digital Tax Fight Not Yet Over
There is something masochistic about the United States being the OECD's largest contributor, providing over 20 percent of the organization's annual budget only...
Read morePeace Cross Memorial Under Attack
The existence of a World War I monument known as the “Peace Cross” is being challenged by the American Humanist Association. ...
Read moreWe Have an Identity Problem
What's an open-and-shut case in biology can become confused in the political/social arena, particularly when one's sex is referred to as one's gender....
Read moreDow Loses 800 Points in Two Days — a Forecast of Weakening Economy?
Monday’s selloff in stocks brought the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than five percent since early October. Is this decline a harbinger...
Read moreEnding the Anchor Baby Travesty
President Trump’s intention to end the granting of immediate citizenship to infants born in the United States has drawn both a heap of...
Read moreMacron to Trump: ‘You’re No Patriot!’
In a rebuke bordering on national insult Sunday, Emmanuel Macron retorted to Donald Trump's calling himself a nationalist. ...
Read morePresident Trump’s Iran Policy – Is It ‘Normal’?
It’s not often that US Government officials are honest when they talk about our foreign policy. The unprovoked 2003 attack on Iraq was...
Read moreThe War for the Soul of America
The war in Washington will not end until the presidency of Donald Trump ends. Everyone seems to sense that now. This is a...
Read moreAnother Republican Capitulation on Health Care
Republicans have established a clear pattern on health care. First, they rail against whatever big-government scheme Democrats propose. Then, after a half-hearted and...
Read moreSkin in the Game
A very disturbing and mostly ignored issue is how absence of skin in the game negatively impacts the political arena. It turns out...
Read moreHas Bloomberg Begun the Battle for 2020?
Did former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg just take a page out of the playbook of Sen. Ed Muskie from half a century...
Read moreCensorship and Gun Control Will Not Make Us Safe
Sadly, but not unexpectedly, the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh is being used to justify new infringements on...
Read moreMass Migration: Mortal Threat to Red State America
In two years, 2016 and 2017, the United States will have absorbed more migrants, legal and illegal, than all the people of the...
Read moreJobs Report So Strong Even Democrats Can’t Find Anything Wrong With It
If Independents tune out the noise and focus on their votes on their pocketbooks on Tuesday, Congress should remain in Republican hands. ...
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