November 12, 2010

Step into the Sunshine

Infamous Bell, California and its arrogant, millionaire public servants illustrated for citizens everywhere the benefit and the necessity for transparency in government spending."Transparency" has, over the years, become rhetoric; another c...

November 22, 2009

Deliberative Analysis: RIP

A troubling trend has emerged in regard to hot-button issues like anthropogenic global warming and health care. It may not come as a surprise, but there no longer appears to be an interest by many on the left to engage in deliberative analysis and de...

September 17, 2009

The All Purpose Tool

A few years ago I saw a television news broadcast in which a man repairing a dump truck, with the bed in the raised "dumping" position, would have been crushed by the descending bed but for his Leatherman Tool.  Somehow, his parapherna...

July 31, 2009

Time for a Military Suffrage Movement

Remember the last election and all the rhetoric from the Democrats about making sure every vote counted, and reaching out to "traditionally" disenfranchised voters and communities? Remember how they were constantly accusing Republicans of d...