Monday, March 3rd, 2014
What the hell is going on in Ukraine? It’s a fair question. But not one likely to be answered on the “news.” Condemnations by politicians, calls for military threats, appeals to human interest, are mostly smoke. Much of what is happening in Ukraine is not “new” at all. 166 years before California was annexed by
Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
In his State of the Union address, President Obama said he was going to “give America a raise.” Gee, what a nice guy. He explained that he was going to issue an executive order that federal contractors...
Thursday, January 2nd, 2014
Why won’t those dummies on the other side smarten up and compromise by doing what we know is best? That is the state of politics in the US of A, and has been for some time now....
Wednesday, January 1st, 2014
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has some interesting ideas about crime and punishment. He thinks that prisoners ought to be punished He doesn’t think taxpayers should pay any more than absolutely necessary Based on these “radical” viewpoints, Sheriff Joe...
Tuesday, December 31st, 2013
Whenever we stand on the threshold of a new year, we are tempted to forget the hazards of prophecy and try to see what may lie on the other side of this arbitrary division of time. Sometimes...
Monday, December 30th, 2013
Looks like the New York Times Paul Krugman has some new competition in the economic baboon championship. Last week, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post wrote, “The Federal Reserve Bank’s focus on keeping inflation below 2 percent...
Saturday, December 28th, 2013
“What you’re seeing is how a civilization commits suicide,” says Camille Paglia. According to the self-described “Amazon feminist:” Americans undervalue manual labor, schools neuter male students, opinion makers deny the biological differences between men and women, the...
Thursday, December 26th, 2013
Edward Snowden says he feels like a winner despite the espionage charges against him. Denying that he is a traitor, Snowden said that he’s “already won” because society has begun to address the issue of government surveillance....
Friday, December 20th, 2013
Up until a few days ago, I had no idea there was a Duck Dynasty on TV, or anywhere else. Then some guy with a scraggly beard started showing up in the news in the fiasco of...
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
Huma Abedin has done nothing wrong. As far as I can tell, she hasn’t done anything at all. Who the heck is Huma Abedin? Well, a few people know her as one of Hilary Clinton’s staff, while...
Monday, December 2nd, 2013
It’s good to know that some American’s can still get quick medical treatment—even if they don’t want it. When David Eckert was pulled over by police for failing to come to a complete halt at a stop...
Friday, November 29th, 2013
There was a bit of a hullabaloo over the deal made last week to lift sanctions on Iran, in exchange for reductions in their nuclear program. Many praise the diplomacy as progress towards a more peaceful and...
Thursday, November 28th, 2013
Back in the early 90s, I felt a need to understand politics far better than I had, and I spent a lot of time and effort on it. Along the way – and partly by accident –...
Tuesday, November 19th, 2013
Whenever a new and wonderful social program is enacted, its architects see themselves as do-good fairy godmothers, granting wishes to an adoring crowd. But it can take many months, years, or even decades before the actual results...
Friday, November 15th, 2013
All around the world, “smart” women are foregoing children in favor of career, ambition, or personal endeavors. That was the conclusion London School of Economics researcher Satoshi Kanazawa made in his book The Intelligence Paradox, Why the...