March 19, 2015

The IRS and me

Why do most Americans never react to government scandals, corruption on a massive scale, or epic foreign policy blunders?  The answer is simple: all this doesn't affect them directly.  Or so they think. Connecting the shenanigans in ...

April 16, 2012

War on Women? Count Me for the Defense!

In all my years growing up in the good old Soviet Union, I never met a non-working woman.  Let me put it another way: because all citizens were required to work and the government had officially abolished the differences between sexes in the wor...

October 15, 2011

I Don't Want to Save the World!

I grew up in a country whose whole reason for existence was saving the world.  We all had to sacrifice our time, our already meager resources, and our ability to buy a pair of shoes or some toilet paper (forget our freedom!) for the benefit of t...

July 24, 2011

The Difficulties of Learning to Speak American

Contrary to conventional wisdom, ordinary life is not full of surprises -- they are few and far between.  But recently I got a welcome surprise courtesy of American Thinker publishing my adventures with the Tea Party as an emigrant from the USSR...

June 15, 2011

Confession of a Reluctant Tea-Partier

In the Soviet Union any mass expression of public sentiment was by definition a fraud.  To participate in a demonstration of any kind meant a complete waste of a perfectly good day.  All organizations got their quotas to provide a certain a...