June 9, 2022

Maybe Republicans could consider not compromising our Second Amendment rights

We are once again held hostage to the 24/7 leftist "mainstream" media onslaught regarding the Second Amendment natural right to self-defense versus leftists' definition of "commonsense" gun laws.  Typically, Republic...

January 12, 2022

That city you love so much doesn't exist anymore

The place where you want to live doesn't exist anymore.  There is no pathway back to the past.  The future happens moving forward.  These thoughts became clear recently when discussing Chicago with a friend who had mov...

January 12, 2022

If Democrats weren't so awful, we'd never have gotten Trump

Many in the media, politics, and entertainment are apoplectic over Donald Trump as president.  They fail to realize that his election and potential future election weren't and aren't about Donald Trump the person — his persona...

April 27, 2021

America sinking under leftists' new devotion to tribalism

From time immemorial, there has been one race: the human race.  Divisions of this one race have occurred due to geographic ancestry and current location, behaviors, activities, and interests, and through all manner of other shared groupings...

April 8, 2021

Cui bono: Who benefits from razing our great country to the ground?

Turmoil seems to be the daily goal of certain persons in the political class and much of the media.  We have for a while been jolted from one alleged existential crisis to the next.  Apparently on purpose, we are triggered by part...

January 21, 2021

Burying carbon dioxide is a dumb, dumb idea

We have busied ourselves in a race between technology and man-caused tragedy.  Huge amounts of money and effort are being spent to develop an approach to address man-caused global warming.  One of the many approaches to address th...

September 23, 2020

There are no Obama judges or Trump judges, except when there are

In November 2018, in response to another of the usual leftist rulings from the Ninth Circuit Court out of San Francisco, President Trump referred to the judge making the determination as an "Obama Judge."  Responding to a query re...

September 16, 2020

One of the worst calls the NFL has ever made

The NFL has decided to utilize its spectator sport to proselytize its paying customers to their employees' social opinion.  Unfortunately, many customers disagree with being considered racists and the denigration of their country. ...

June 10, 2020

Liberal generals beclowning the military

It appears fashionable among the liberal former military leaders in our country to speak out against President Trump's offer to use the armed forces to put down the street violence that the liberal leaders of many cities allowed to continue....

June 9, 2020

The Privilege Inherent in Reparations for Black America

On Fox News recently, Bret Baier interviewed BET founder Robert Johnson, who has called for reparations for slavery.  Mr. Johnson has proposed $14 trillion for 40 million black Americans.  The potential for reparations payments wo...

June 4, 2020

Prosecute actions, not thoughtcrimes

In George Orwell's frightening novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, thoughtcrimes Are a person's thoughts that contradict or generally do not agree with the approved ideology.  The ability to assess a person's thoughts and mete out punis...

June 4, 2020

George Floyd's death reveals the domestic enemies among us

The current Oath of Allegiance to the United States taken by those who wish to be naturalized citizens of our great country reads, in part: ... that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all ...

May 23, 2020

How Democrats get (their version of) a 'free and fair' election, coronavirus edition

In their effort to extend the fear factor lockdown in many blue states up to the presidential election this November, and to capitalize on the China Pulmonary Plague to gain power, the Democrats are attempting to activate their real and imagined cons...

May 9, 2020

Sun Tzu and the Wuhan Flu

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." —Sun Tzu, The Art of War  In the mid-1990s, it was extensively reported that the Clinton-Gore Administration transferred our missile and nuclear technologies to...

March 28, 2020

Perspective on corona panic

Nobody is saying the Wuhan flu should not be taken seriously, but some sense of perspective is needed. For the 2017–2018 flu season, an estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease C...

April 18, 2015

Officer Slager's view from under the bus

The segment of footage looks cut and dried: North Charleston's Officer Slager murders the fleeing Walter Scott.  Immediately upon the video hitting the mainstream news, Officer Slager was placed under arrest for murder, fired from the police...

March 19, 2015

A public service announcement for 'unvaccinated travelers'

Presented as a part of a public service announcement on the radio for the local Pittsburgh-area Allegheny County Health Department, a new term has been coined for our times: "unvaccinated traveler."  Posing an apparent new health conce...

March 7, 2015

King v. Burwell: Much ado about nothing

Extensively covered throughout every part of the media is the current Supreme Court consideration of the Obamacare law in the case of King v Burwell.  Four little words, “established by the State,” are being parsed, turned over and o...

January 15, 2015

Missing Paris was par for the course

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest provided the mea culpa for the Paris radical Islamist-terrorism rally that the president’s administration decided not to attend.  Was the president’s missed opportunity an oversight, or was it...

December 20, 2014

The New York Tobacco Party

The Boston Tea Party’s recent auspicious anniversary on December 16, 1773 brings to mind our modern day protest over tyrannical application of intolerable taxation on goods.  Oppressive taxation and control of tobacco apparently lead to ou...

September 10, 2014

Ray Rice Is Being Profiled!

The reaction to Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching his girlfriend in the face has been overwhelming outrage.  How can this be in today’s sophisticated progressive world?  Ray Rice is being profiled. Welcome to the worl...

October 25, 2013

Broken-Window Environmentalism

The broken window fallacy was first presented by the French economist Frédéric Bastiat.  In Mr. Bastiat's story-line, the fallacy of the broken window points out economic principles: that destruction doesn't benefit the economy, and that th...

May 11, 2013

Touring Benghazi

Travel around the world has never been easier, especially if you have your own fleet of jet airplanes.  However, as we have learned from recent testimony regarding the Benghazi, Libya scandal, if your travel plans include touring Benghazi, this ...

May 10, 2013

You Can't Handle The Truth

While most Americans are apparently distracted by the NBA playoffs, or Dancing With The Stars, or whatever other distraction that consumes them, we are confronted with a President, his political machine and Administration that are arguably best descr...

April 26, 2013

The Sheep of Watertown

The events following the Boston bombing were instructive as to how far we have fallen as a free society.  After having failed at their most basic fiduciary responsibility of keeping the country safe (surely more to come on this in the future), t...

April 12, 2012

Poisoning the Kids

Once again, our Unifier-in-Chief has treated us to the tired old mantras -- i.e., that the GOP will [fill in the blank]: poison our kids with pollution, treat workers and consumers badly, enslave women in the kitchen, steal Grandma's Social Security ...

March 7, 2011

The View from Crackerland

Certainly the recent vexation expressed by Eric Holder over being questioned regarding the New Black Panther voter intimidation case -- i.e., his defense of "my people" -- depicts a new low in race relations here in America.  The liber...

February 5, 2011

Obama and FDR Power Grabs: Déjà Vu All Over Again

Today's progressives would like us to believe that they are the forward-looking, advanced thinkers of our day.  Taken in the context of history, to quote the famous baseball player Yogi Berra, "this is like déjà vu all over ag...

September 18, 2010

Back to the Future

Thank God that B. Hussein Obama was elected to shake us from our complacency and apathy! From someone preferring the notion of Americanism over the mob rule of democracy, socialism, or whatever similar form of collectivism our dear leader is selling,...

April 10, 2010

How Much Risk Is Too Much?

An ancient common law principle has been hijacked by radical environmentalists. Life is full of trade-offs between the risks associated with our daily activities and the benefits. For environmental matters, the Precautionary Principle is a widely acc...

March 13, 2010

The Rube Goldberg Progressives

Progressives in America are wedded to the Rube Goldberg approach to the running of our economy. Rube Goldberg became famous through his cartoons depicting overly complex systems to accomplish simple tasks. Rube Goldberg's name has been adopted into t...

March 9, 2010

Obama Is Late to the Party

Somewhere deep down inside, The One We Have Been Waiting For must be disappointed to have arrived at the spending party so late. It's just about over; the ice has melted, the keg of taxpayer-supplied funding is floating, and the public coffers are ta...

January 4, 2010

Obama and the 'Readjustment of Our National Life'

Barack Obama famously promised -- and is now delivering -- "fundamental change" to America by expanding the role of the federal government more than any president since FDR. Like Rahm Emanuel, FDR never let a crisis go to waste, using the D...

December 26, 2009

The EPA's Goldilocks Rule

As the means of communicating its administration of the nation's environmental laws to the public, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), Lisa Jackson, published an Endangerment Finding for the list of greenhouse ga...

October 27, 2009

The Race Against Nothing

We have busied ourselves in a race between technology and nothing.  Huge amounts of money and effort are being spent to develop an approach to address the hoax that is man-induced global warming, arguably the definition of nothing.  While m...

October 10, 2009

Never Cleaner

"The environment has never been cleaner in my lifetime than now".... is the way I begin a part of my guest lecture to the business classes at a local college here in Pennsylvania.  The look on the faces of the products of our public sc...

October 3, 2009

Energy Eco-Activists

Eco-Activists are at work in our state and federal legislatures.  The Eco-Activists are enabled by our elected officials who have lost touch with the citizens they are to represent and apparently care little about the legislation they support.As...