May 12, 2023

Is a four-day school week a good idea?

A four-day school week is being proposed.  This is probably one of the worst ideas ever (other than allowing the mutilation of children). American children are not reading at grade level, are not proficient at math at grade level, and ar...

November 6, 2017

From my cold dead hands: Gun control calls in the wake of the Texas church massacre

America has experienced another horrific shooting within weeks of the last mass shooting, and I feel for all of those who experienced the loss of a loved one.  As shocked as I was by the loss of life, I wasn't at all surprised to hear the li...

July 28, 2017

Why Replace Obamacare with Anything?

Obamacare, like almost everything the government is in charge of, is undoubtedly a disaster and needs to be repealed.  Why should it be replaced with anything?  We already have an extensive Medicaid program, which was supposedly designed to...

June 9, 2017

The Comey Comedy Show

On June 8, 2017, the much ballyhooed testimony of former FBI director James Comey before the Senate Intelligence Committee occurred, and it was everything you could wish for.  In his opening statement, Mr. Comey stated twice that the FBI is an i...

May 5, 2017

Cultural appropriation: 'Genocide' or appreciation?

In the politically correct word we unfortunately live in now, "cultural appropriation" is almost as great a sin as beating your wife.  But is it really cultural appropriation to do such things as braiding your hair or wearing hoop earr...

February 8, 2017

Philadelphia Goes Over the Tax Cliff

Starting January 1st, Philadelphia implemented the first ever tax on all sweetened beverages, including those sweetened with artificial sweeteners. The $0.015 tax is being levied on distributors of these beverages, even if the distributor i...

January 11, 2017

John Kerry throws himself under the bus

Just before ending his four-year tenure as secretary of state, John Kerry again showed the world just how incompetent he is. According to the Associated Press: Secretary of State John Kerry is publicly apologizing for the State Department...

December 1, 2015

A quick alternative to climate change alarmism

President Obama, meeting with his fellow world leaders in Paris, has urged them to reach a deal to limit global warming before the planet is doomed.  Obama once again stated that "glaciers in Alaska are melting at a pace unprecedented in mo...

November 9, 2015

The National Reparations Conference -- an Event to be Missed

Because of the article I wrote on reparations that was posted on American Thinker, I received an invitation from Minister Ishmael Al-Islam of the Muhammad Mosque in Philadelphia to attend the 'historic National Reparations Conference' that wa...

October 27, 2015

When office holders neglect their duties to run for higher office

Recently I received this humor email:         "Dear Boss: I have enjoyed working here these past several years. You have paid me very well, given me         ...

September 2, 2015

The Schizophrenic Left and Women

I'm confused again.  It seems to happen frequently to me when I try to figure out liberal politics.  Women want total equality with men but they also want special treatment for women's issues.  Which is it?  It seems to me...

July 22, 2015

Will Someone Please Explain Diversity to Me?

I'm old, and recently it seems that a lot of what is going on in the world, and most especially America, confuses me.  No, I don't have Alzheimer's or senile dementia.  It just confuses me that so many adults, especially politic...

July 4, 2015

Reparations: The Next Liberal Thing?

The level of overreaction in this country seems to have reached a fever pitch since the killing of nine black people in Charleston, SC by a highly disturbed young man.  First the calls for banning the Confederate flag began, followed by calls fo...

June 22, 2015

Rape on Campus: Guilty until Proven Innocent

Megyn Kelly recently interviewed the attorney for "John Doe," a pseudonym for a young man who was charged with sexual assault when he was a sophomore at Amherst College by "Sandra Jones," another pseudonym.  Evidently, colleg...

June 14, 2015

When I Was a Kid, We Were All 'Free Range'

I'm so relieved.  Maryland has clarified its policy on "free range" children.  Lawmakers there have decided that the state shouldn't investigate the parents of these children unless the children are harmed or face substant...

May 25, 2015

Let's <em>not</em> have a conversation

Everyone -- politicians, community organizers, educators, the MSM and many others -- wants to have a conversation about race, police brutality against blacks, white privilege, and anything and everything else you can name.  You can almost predic...

May 13, 2015

White Privilege: Another Liberal Distraction

Recently I authored a piece in American Thinker titled "The 'white experience' and me.”  The response was overwhelming and almost all positive.  Two emails spoke about "White Privilege," which wasn't discuss...

May 7, 2015

Why must words mean whatever liberals want them to mean?

First the liberals changed the history of race relations and civil rights in this country.  Now they're changing the meaning of words. When did we start changing the meaning of words that have been in use for perhaps hundreds of years to ...

May 6, 2015

The 'white experience' and me

I'm white, female, and like every other person alive, my race and sex is an accident of birth not a choice, and like every other person alive, my color is only skin-deep.  I'm finally fed up with hearing about the "black experience...