March 3, 2007

Where's the outrage?

On or about August 1st of 2005 Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) was filmed accepting $100,000 in cash from a man wearing an FBI wire. Two days later, the FBI raided Rep. Jefferson's home and found most of the money tightly wrapped in aluminum foil in h...

December 3, 2006

Is the Globe scrutinizing everyone?

The continued hit job being done by the Boston Globe on Mitt Romney over illegal immigrants leads to the question of whether or not the Globe will be applying the same standards across the board to other politicians and business as well as the paper ...

September 15, 2005

Truth for our own sake

January 17, of 2006 will be Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday. Judging from what has been going on in our world it is too bad the old fellow isn't still with us. As the weeks go by we will see more and more stories about Franklin's numerous accompli...

July 21, 2005

Social Security and the sports book

In 1933, Dr. Francis Townsend, a then 66 year old retired assistant city health director in Long Beach, California, introduced a national pension plan called 'the Townsend Plan.' The idea for his plan struck him as result of his witnessing elderly wo...

January 5, 2005

It's good to be US

In the immediate aftermath of the Asian tsunami, the early words of the New York Times and Washington Post were not a plea to Americans to open up their pocket books and be generous to the afflicted. No, the tragedy was viewed as an immediate opportu...