Politics
What About “Our” Freedom?
In the early days of the Clinton administration, Vice President Al Gore was assigned the task of "Reinventing Government." That inspired that finest...
Statistics: Useful Tool for Promoting Falsehoods
The Obama administration’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently announced that the nation’s unemployment rate for the month of October reached 10.2 percent,...
Read moreFort Hood Victims – Soldiers or Sitting Ducks?
Soldiers trained in the "art of warfare" are not allowed to carry personal self-defense weapons on base as one of the unhappy results...
Read moreObama Reacts to House Prohibition of Abortion Funding
In a legislative clash that pitted Democrats against their fellows, the House voted Saturday to pass the Stupak Amendment. Sponsored by Rep. Bart...
Read moreAmerica’s Fighting Myth
There was a night in Vietnam that stands out in my memory. I think it was Christmas Eve, and I was on guard...
Read moreVeterans Day
Veterans Day was once Armistice Day. This holiday once celebrated not our brave fighting men and women but rather the end of one...
Read moreQuestions Abound in the Investigation of the Ft. Hood Massacre
“What did you know and when did you know it?” was the infamously blunt question asked of President Richard Nixon regarding his involvement...
Read moreKrugman Vents His Vitriol on Conservatives
Hypocrisy knows no political boundaries and the refrain “do as I say, not as I do” is a not-uncommon refrain in many circles...
Read morePolar Bears Rule in Obama-nation
Well, the two-party system is working as it is supposed to, with Socialist Party A returning to power to perpetuate the discredited policies...
Read moreBoxer Violates Senate Rules for “Cap-and-Trade” Bill
Dismissing concerns that the environmental assumptions underlying the bill may be fundamentally flawed, key Senate Democrats have ignored their own rules in an...
Read moreDangerous Connections: NBA and the KGB
The recent public assassination in Moscow of Russian oligarch and sports team owner Shabtai Kalmanovich should give NBA promoters pause regarding their headlong...
Read moreObama Says Native Americans Not Forgotten
President Barack Obama on November 5 met with Native American tribal leaders at what was dubbed the White House Tribal Nations Conference. The...
Read moreHealthcare, Sausages, and the Constitution
Two things that people should never see being made, Otto Von Bismarck once quipped, were sausages and laws. The Founding Fathers intended to...
Read moreMassachusetts Gun Storage Law Heading to State’s Highest Court
If Charleton Heston had lived in Massachusetts, then his rousing warning regarding his right to gun ownership would have read: “You can have...
Read morePatriot Act Vote Scheduled for Nov. 5
The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider a bill on November 5 that the Electronic Frontier Foundation believes is this year’s “best...
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