September 8, 2020

For Antifa, it's time to call a spade a spade

All right now.  Maybe what I am about to say bothers only me and no one else on this particular planet, but even if I am a sole peculiarity, I will not be deterred. What bothers me involves the chaos in our streets that goes on night aft...

August 15, 2020

Time for the Democratic Party to die?

It is nauseating to read the schedule for the Democratic Convention. It gives names to the pile of scavenged shards left from the explosion of the Democrats' political bomb.  The fire of the bomb's long fuse has finally run its c...

August 12, 2019

More leftward drift?

At the small church my wife and I attend, there is a delightful lady — I'll call her Roberta — who is our faithful piano player.  She also, until now, taught piano after school to young students and to others, among them one...

June 10, 2018

Explaining Jeff Sessions

I have known Jeff Sessions for a long time.  In 1994, he was running for Alabama attorney general, and I was running for the congressional seat presently occupied by Mo Brooks.  Jeff and I, then, were on the same GOP ticket in my ...

May 2, 2018

How to check the Supreme Court

Comes now Peter Skurkiss and posts a fine piece on American Thinker concerning the panic the NYT is having at the thought of impending retirements on the Supreme Court.  The Times laments the horrible possibility that one or more of the jus...

November 28, 2017

Accusing Moore's Accusers

By way of full disclosure, I will tell you that I support Roy Moore, I have known him a long time, and have contributed to his campaign. I recommended to then-Governor Robert Bentley that he appoint him to fill the unexpired term of Senator Jeff Sess...

August 1, 2017

Mr. Brooks's presidential proposal

Well, now – my congressman has launched a small tsunami.  Mo Brooks occupies the seat for North Alabama, including Huntsville, where I live.  This is the seat for which I ran some years ago and lost by 23 votes out of the 50,000 cast ...

November 20, 2016

Me and Jeff Sessions

Of the appointments President-Elect Trump is likely to make, Jeff Sessions will likely be the only one I know personally.  This being so, I am minded to scribble a few words concerning what I know of him. In 1995, in the Alabama Republican Pr...

August 2, 2014

MH 17 versus TWA 800

On the 17th of July,  Malaysia Airlines Flight MH-17 crashed in Ukraine, near the Russian border, killing all 298 aboard.  The cause of the crash was announced within hours by several governments: it had been shot down by a surface-to-air m...