October 22, 2014

RINOs are not the Enemy

Because it is once again election season, I am hearing from a great many people who sincerely believe RINO is the vilest of all four-letter words. The weird thing is that although I am about as conservative as a person can be, I wind up spending an i...

October 7, 2007

In Praise Of Competition

I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that competition was a bad thing.  Who was the silly goose who woke up one morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in their games so that the members of the losi...

October 5, 2007

Liberals: A Puzzlement

I'll come right out and admit that I understand Islamic terrorists far better than I do American liberals.  After all, once you realize that young Muslims are taught by their religious leaders that our nation is militarily powerful and technolog...

September 15, 2007

Sometimes 'Peace' is a Four-Letter Word

Back in the 1950s, a southern journalist named Harry Golden became famous by turning out a series of best-selling books, the first of which he called Only in America.  The title was a reference to a popular expression that reflected the feeling ...

September 8, 2007

The Hollywood Blacklist Revisited

Lately, I've been reading even more books than usual about a period that's always fascinated me; namely, the late 40s and early 50s, the time of the Hollywood blacklist.  It was the time of what liberals labeled witch hunts. A funny thing, thoug...