August 5, 2020

Starving the Minotaur

We conservatives are quite the enigma.  On the one hand, we shake our fists at the Beelzebubs of Antifa and denounce their lawless barbarism.  On the other, we demand that government schools stay open so that we can send our children to the...

July 16, 2020

Riot reparations

I live in a suburb of Los Angeles in the golden state of California.  Like other states, the place I call home has been hit hard by the Wuhan Flu.  Unemployment is high, businesses are closing, and our state's budget is in fre...

November 19, 2010

Education: The Elephant in the Room

For the first two hundred years of America's history, there was little in the way of public education. Thus, from the middle of the 17th century to the middle of the 19th century, education was most often a family affair (though churches, literary so...

September 29, 2010

Lessons from a Levee

The Wisconsin River and its century-old Caledonia-Lewiston Levee System have made the news of late. That's because a series of thunderstorms has caused severe flooding along the Wisconsin River -- to the point that the levee may very well collapse. E...

August 21, 2010

California: New Is Not Necessarily Improved

Meg Whitman would like to build a new California. Not me. If I had to choose, I'd opt not to build a new California, but rather to restore the "old California." That is, I'd revive the California Republic of Old, when men married women, whe...

May 16, 2010

Reject the filibuster of Kagan

A couple of days ago I received an email from a conservative PAC urging me to contact U.S. Senators about voting against Obama's Supreme Court nominee, "even if it means a FILIBUSTER!"Conservatives are urging a filibuster of a Supreme Court...

May 1, 2010

Jefferson and Adams as Icons for Today

When Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826-exactly 50 years after the signing the Declaration of Independence-he died a poor man.  His lavish lifestyle culminated in net debts of more than $100,000 at his death.  Consequently, Jefferson's s...

April 24, 2010

The GOP Needs Candidates with Backbone

While recently attending a candidate forum, I heard a prominent Republican candidate answer a question about gay marriage with the declaration, "I don't think the government should have anything to do with marriage."Huh?Fellow Republicans, ...