December 3, 2014

What Should the 114th Congress Do?

When the president announced his unconstitutional executive action to grant legal status to illegal aliens, I wondered what Congress might do, assuming it had any interest in doing anything, to make it difficult, if not impossible, for Obama...

April 18, 2014

Common Sense and Climate Change

Scientists believe that over the last two billion years or so, there have been as many as seventeen times that Earth has experienced an Ice Age.  They suspect an Ice Age when they see shifts in geological formations that are so severe that the o...

September 6, 2012

An Army Without Food

This morning there was an article in my local paper, the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, that unknowingly identified all my neighbors should need to know about how to vote in November.  The Salvation Army is out of food.  They are feeding mor...

July 27, 2012

Happy Anniversary, Tea-Party Hobbits

July 27 marks the one-year anniversary of the Wall Street Journal editorial that gave birth to the term "tea-party Hobbits."  On that day, the Journal opined: The idea seems to be that if the House GOP refuses to raise the debt ceiling, a defau...

July 12, 2012

Barack Kardashian?

On June 5, 2012, my south Florida neighbor, Rush Limbaugh, told me (and millions of other people) that his new nickname for our current president is Barack Kardashian.  Before using the nickname for the first time, Rush, probably while smoking a...

May 29, 2012

A Tweet Which Will Live in Infamy

Exactly twenty-five days after the death of Osama bin Laden, another historic event began its dominance of the political news cycle.  While the president and those who surround him used the one-year anniversary of the raid that resulted in bin L...

May 27, 2012

Help for a Liberal: The Invocation

I know this will be shocking to many, but I have uncovered a liberal writing opinion articles in one of my local newspapers, the Fort Lauderdale, Florida based Sun-Sentinel.  The opinion-writer's name is Gary Stein.  How do I know he is a l...

May 13, 2012

Deconstructing the TIME Breastfeeding Cover

I don't read TIME Magazine.  The only time I ever see TIME is during waiting time in a doctor's office.  Time and again I have noticed some references in the news to something timely in TIME, but I don't recall anything in the recent portio...

April 23, 2012

An Easy Way for President Obama to Pay His Fair Share

Mr. President, for years you have taxed my patience with your talking points of how the wealthy don't pay their fair share in taxes.  The man you picked to be vice president -- one of the most taxing men in politics -- ran around the country cla...