Friday, August 30th, 2013
She was in her late twenties, with flowing brown hair and clear pale skin. I met her on my morning commute. The 880 from Oakland to San Jose is one of the worst commutes in the Bay Area. Roughly an hour and a half of stop and start traffic with no rhyme or reason to
Tuesday, August 27th, 2013
So the Nobel Peace Prize winning President wants to go to war… again. For what? I know there is a segment of the population who revels in the glory of projecting American military might abroad. Like some...
Saturday, August 24th, 2013
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is considered by many to be the greatest American President of the 20th century. His four terms as chief executive changed the course of government as we know it, and the direction of world...
Friday, August 23rd, 2013
“As a first step, I would see to it that things are called by their right names.” That was what Confucius said would be his first act if he were to govern a just society. He further...
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
Born without arms, Richie Parker is now an engineer at NASCAR’s most winning organization, Hendrick Motorsports. Parker grew up with people telling him what he couldn’t do – ride a bike, drive a car or find a...
Wednesday, August 21st, 2013
Every time you add herbs or spices to your food you are literally “upgrading” your diet. Compared to fruits and vegetables, oregano has 4 times the anti-oxidant power of blueberries, 12 times more than oranges, and 40...
Tuesday, August 20th, 2013
The Dickens of Detroit passed away yesterday. Perhaps the greatest writer of dialogue, even if you had never read one of his books, chances are high that you’d seen a movie created from one of them. They...
Monday, August 19th, 2013
I didn’t plan to get in a fight. I didn’t go looking for trouble either, but somehow trouble seems to find me. Well, that’s not exactly true, maybe I was looking for it just a little bit....
Saturday, August 17th, 2013
Who Will Be the Next Fed Honcho? Bernanke is on the way out, and the hunt for a replacement to lead America’s central bank is on. It’s a pretty short list. Anyone smart enough to see the...
Friday, August 16th, 2013
When George Ayittey saw rock star Bono in the audience at a conference, he made a special effort to rip into the foreign aid establishment. Bono later told Ayittey that he liked his speech but did not...
Wednesday, August 14th, 2013
Over the past 20 years I’ve bought two cars for my personal transportation. In 1994 I bought a 1-year old Toyota pickup for $10,000. I paid cash. That same year, a friend of mine bought a brand...
Sunday, August 11th, 2013
1,810 people renounced their US citizenship in the first half of 2013. That’s SIX times as many people who renounced their citizenship in the same time period the previous year. The trend is unmistakable. More and more...
Friday, August 9th, 2013
The antidote to Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, this film from the BBC ought to be mandatory viewing to those who are force fed the scare story of a global apocalypse driven by CO2. Highly critical of the...
Thursday, August 8th, 2013
I’m going to burn my house down. Then I’m going to push my car off a cliff. And then for a finale, I’m going to throw my television into the ocean. Besides being a tremendous amount of...
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
It was an act of madness, one that no reasonable person would like to see repeated. A lunatic armed with a high-powered automobile ran over 12 people on the Venice Beach Boardwalk the other day. One person...