May 23, 2022

The Green New Deal's racism

Since the cry of "racism!" is always the response from progressives to criticism of their idiocy, consider this, please.  The war against fossil fuels and the green agenda climate change hoax being promoted by white American and E...

February 18, 2018

Mass shootings and violent video games

Anders Breivik murdered 77 in Norway in 2011. He received a 21 year sentence. In his testimony, he stated that he practiced the murders on a video game Call of Duty. (Later, in prison, he threatened a hunger strike unless given access to “adult...

April 12, 2012

Buffett Rule

The Buffett Rule on its surface is a handy political cudgel for the Democrats to use on the weekend talk shows and  nice fodder for the Democratic base. In actuality, if imposed, it wouldn't result in any significant increase in tax yield. If my...

April 30, 2006

Ending the Darfur silence

Today's Boston Globe editorial, "Ending the Darfur Silence," focused on the genocide in the Darfur section of Sudan. While forceful in its argument that this is an international humanitarian disaster, it is hypocritical and almost weasily in the way ...

January 17, 2006

The Grandfather of Our Country

January 17th, 2006 marks the 300th birthday of Benjamin Franklin. Since his death 216 years ago many volumes have been written that explore his numerous accomplishments in a wide variety of endeavors. Despite so much time passing, Franklin's list of ...

November 13, 2005

A party organ

In an Op Ed piece entitled 'Romney's rush to reform healthcare,' Joan Vennochi and the Boston Globe prove once again that Democratic Party politics are always front and center in any position the Globe takes on any issue. Party considerations will ...

October 24, 2005

Do they think we're stupid?

Back a couple of years ago I attended a funeral for a family member at the Our Lady  Help of Christians church in Newton. It was at a time that the church sex abuse scandal in Boston was at its height. The Pastor who presided over the funeral ma...

October 18, 2005

A Democrat's lament

Those of us moderate Democrats who fret over the current state of the party might well take a moment and look back in time to lament what might have been, had the party heavyweights possessed the moral fiber to make a few hard decisions whe...

February 5, 2005

I wish I were this stupid

The common theme in Massachusetts during the presidential election was the need to replace the bumbling fool from Crawford, Texas with our own intellectual, worldly, French—speaking war hero from Massachusetts. Surely the country would see the ...