August 23, 2023

Reparations are unconstitutional

American leftists, in their mad dash to virtue-signal how cool they are on every trendy Civil Rights cause, have signed on to the Reparations movement.  But they seem to be forgetting something important in their rush to fix the wrongs of h...

May 26, 2017

The Devil in One Generation

As I write this, there is a crowd outside the house of FCC commissioner Pai.  His crime?  He is returning control of the internet to internet service providers (ISPs). The Obama administration enacted "Net Neutrality" in defian...

April 8, 2017

How about free advice?

Senator Bernie Sanders is calling for free college education for all. Why hasn't any politician proposed this before? Oh wait, they have.  Karl Marx wanted free education for all.  He was going to teach the little idiots...

December 30, 2014

Hollywood Couldn't Write This

Reactions to art often tell us more about the audience than the people who made it. The movie The Interview demonstrates this so well. A quick recap for those who might not be following the issue. Seth Rogan and James Franco made a movie about a...

August 7, 2014

The accountability of the Founders is lacking today

In January, 1791, encouraged by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, the US Congress passed a tax on "distilled spirits." The money would be used to pay down debt incurred during the American Revolution. What no one at the time ...

March 15, 2013

Karl Marx and the American Dream

You cannot use Karl Marx's ideas to help the middle class. You can't do it. Anyone who claims otherwise is stupid, ignorant, crazy, a liar, or some combination of the above.  Even the laziest student can open a copy of the Communist Manifest...

August 11, 2012

Meaningless Words and Phrases

In the politics of 2012, it's amazing just how many words and phrases get thrown around without any thought.  Here is just a short list of some of the more popular lingo and the actual definitions. Social Justice One of the first philosophical d...

May 28, 2012

The Lesson of Alexander Hamilton

How many things are in a person's pocket that they don't even know about? We take money for granted -- most people can't tell us which way George Washington is facing on the quarter.  They can tell us that Ben Franklin is on the front of the hun...

October 8, 2011

Marxism versus the Middle Class

Reckless driving is partly defined as going twice the posted speed limit.  At first blush, this might not sound so bad -- 150 mph on the interstate is a hard limit to break.  Most people don't go that fast.  With the law, however, it's...

September 19, 2010

The Disappearing Middle Class

In the clutter of arguments over Ground Zero mosques, conservative-versus-RINO primaries, and whether or not we should push more "stimulus" through Congress, another problem is going on very quietly in Flyover Country. The middle class in A...

August 16, 2010

2010 Politics and the Cult of Me

The "Me Generation" was cute until it got in charge.The "Greatest Generation" came home from fighting and suffering in World War 2 and gave birth to the "Baby Boom." Like most children, these "Boomers" rebelled...

August 7, 2010

About November

Many conservatives are champing at the bit for the November elections. My fear is that the November elections aren't going to change anything going on in Washington.Without a two-thirds majority in both Houses of Congress to override the veto, any at...

October 31, 2009

Arguing With Liberals Idiots

Instead of arguing over the particulars of the health care bill, let's just go to the core of the debate.So now that the fifth bill on health care reform is out, here comes the next round of arguments. Meaning that Conservatives will have to restate ...

October 23, 2009

California's pot legalization fantasy

Make Mary Jane legal and taxing it will save the state of California? Get real!California is bankrupt. Ten weeks after a nasty budget fight concluding in a compromise that everyone hates the state is broke. They've legalized gambling and the state is...