May 18, 2024

What is a tariff, anyway?

I have been patiently waiting for someone in the media to explain the meaning of “tariff” to the general public, rather than going on endlessly about the implications of imposing, for example, a 50% tariff on vehicles, a 20% tariff on ste...

April 6, 2022

Ukraine and the American Revolution: Some parallels

Vladimir Putin and his generals never thought the Ukrainians would fight this hard and long.  Putin thought this invasion and takeover would be over in a week. In many ways, it reminds me of our American Revolution and Kin...

March 11, 2022

Vladimir Putin's wild ride

Imagine Vladimir Putin in a bobsled.  He is hurtling down an icy hill with nominal brakes and an uncertain end to his ride. It gets worse every moment, yet he cannot really control his speed, and he cannot get out of the icy tunnel his b...

February 6, 2022

We're neck-deep in an online learning crisis

We are facing a growing crisis within our schools — especially K–12.  With school closures and stopgap measures with online learning (which does not replace face-to-face learning), the United States is falling behind most democr...

January 7, 2022

Sorry, but online teaching is of limited value in many subjects

I have never been an advocate of online education. After retiring from the federal government over a span of 30 years, I taught at the college/university level for about 10 years as an Adjunct Professor in Criminal Justice. Not anymore. ...

January 6, 2022

A university-level educator makes the case against 'online learning'

I have never been an advocate of online education. After retiring from the federal government over a span of thirty years, I taught at the college/university level for about ten years as an adjunct professor in criminal justice. Not anymor...

September 16, 2020

A sporting proposition...

I have a proposition: let's dumb down everyone in sports to the lowest common denominator. Radical Democrats already want everyone to have equality in medical care, pay, housing, jobs, schools, access to transportation, int...

September 4, 2020

This gathering had 365K people. How many of them did COVID kill?

I've been riding motorcycles for more than forty years.  I've owned two Harleys, a Honda, a Kawasaki, a Royal Enfield, and a Yamaha.   In 1993, my wife Mary and I visited her brother at Ellsworth Air Force Base in Rapid...