November 13, 2013

The Poverty Harbinger

It's easy to forget about jobs. Amid headlines of Iranian sanction lifting, millions of Americans losing their health insurance, political malfeasance and the cover-ups they trigger, the grand backstory shaping these stories is the fundamental transf...

August 29, 2013

Concealing Charlton Heston, Denying MLK

It is now fifty years since the Dream speech of Martin Luther King Jr. from the steps of the Lincoln memorial. One story you probably haven't heard about it is that of Charlton Heston and MLK. It may shock the sensibilities of persons rais...

June 1, 2013

Exploiting Nathan Dunlap

In the granting of a temporary, and not soon to be revisited, reprieve in the Nathan Dunlap case, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has reignited the national debate over the death penalty. On the surface this is but a worn-out and hackneyed opportunit...

November 11, 2012

After Obama: The Coming Reign of Incredibly Small Government

A national election always triggers an onslaught of political books claiming that the next several decades will belong to the party which just swept into power.  These books are laughably wrong, usually being discarded and discredited by the...

January 20, 2012

Progressives and the Media: Still Together after 100 Years

Every relationship has its consummate moment; for some, it is a Garden of Eden moment, when a partnership is forever perverted by consuming the forbidden fruit.  A century ago, a segment of the American media abandoned their role as facilitator ...

December 28, 2011

Becoming Zimbabwe: When Nations Regress

It is the great lie of our time that history is forever marching forward in the direction of evolutionary progress.  History oftentimes is said to repeat itself; but few people realize that on occasion it is more a matter of rewinding history ...