February 7, 2017

Gratitude for 84 Lumber

Most conservative viewers of the Super Bowl expected Lady Gaga's performance to be infuriating at best, but much to my surprise, one of her handlers clearly had enough sense to inform her that a crowd consisting mostly of well-to-do Texans might ...

February 2, 2017

What We’ve Always Wanted: Courage

If you think the media is amplifying dissent now, just wait until deportations start. Whether that entails the removal of just a couple million truly bad apples or many more here illegally, you haven’t seen anything yet. Prepare yourselves for ...

January 24, 2017

Enough already: Back-of-the-napkin inaugural crowd analysis

My feelings of disgust toward the mainstream media (MSM) have only intensified since my recommendation to purge them from your lives.  They remain the festering wart on America's underbelly, replete with hatred and animosity toward tradition...

December 31, 2016

Reflections on the 2017 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot

As a lifelong baseball fan who grew to love the game in some of its most turbulent times, including the steroid era and 1994 strike, I have taken an increased interest in the annual Hall of Fame vote.  The men on the ballot in recent years, incl...

November 17, 2016

Drown Out the Lying MSM

Imagine you have a neighboring family who initiates a relationship by bringing you freshly baked cookies. You go on to have 4th of July barbecues at their home, and your families become close. Over time, you begin to trust one another for favors, suc...

October 28, 2016

The Visual Guide to Disputing Media Polling

To believe recent mainstream media polling releases, one would have to suspend reality enough to believe that John Podesta's email leaks, the ongoing Project Veritas video series, a world on fire, and new revelations about Obamacare are driving t...

October 5, 2016

Does Common Sense Plus Polling Mean a Big Trump Win?

The "unskewed polls" fiasco of 2012 will live in infamy for many years until usurped by an even bigger failed prediction.  Unfortunately for conservatives, the mainstream media didn't miss a beat in weaponizing polls in favor of Hi...

July 2, 2016

Turn Vermont Red: The Racist Hypocrisy of the Left

The difficult electoral map is an inconvenient reality faced by the GOP presidential nominee of any election year since 1992. Increased government dependency, declining religiosity, and demographic changes have altered the political disposition of se...

June 27, 2016

Don't Libertarians Believe in Liberty?

Once upon a time, I rode on a bus through frozen Alaska reading Ron Paul’s book, Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues that Affect Our Freedom. As a member of a U.S. Army cavalry squadron, I had spent parts of a field exercise that week try...

June 13, 2016

A tale of two valedictorians

In case you missed the news over the weekend, two Texas valedictorians took a courageous stand by announcing their status as undocumented immigrants and decrying American immigration law in conjunction with their respective graduation ceremonies. ...