Politics, in all its forms, is bankrupt. The notion that we can safely and successfully hand over the management of our daily lives and the setting of priorities to a political class or elite is thoroughly discredited. Politicians cannot be trusted, regardless of the system in which they...
The New Hampshire Debate – Recap Of A Fear Mongering Feast
The scene of this terrible accident — Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. [The third GOP presidential debate — Tuesday, 5 2007].
My friend Paul Reyes likened them to a “convention of...
After a recent trip to Dahlonega, Georgia, I’m became obsessed with wanting to know more about the U.S. Mint that had been there and its history. To say that “The Neighborhood Mint: Dahlonega in the Age of Jackson” by Sylvia Head, Elizabeth W. Etheridge, gave me all the...
The Most Dangerous Place in the World Right Here In America
To answer this great scourge of death with the bible is to begin with the premise that everyone believes that the bible has something to say about it and that it is authoritative. For those who have put the bible on the shelf...
The Moon: One Small Step For Man – One Giant Bill For America
Going to the moon again is causing far more controversy today than it could have back in the sixties. Some Americans doubt we can afford it and others are not sure they have seen the giant leap for mankind that the first...
Comedian Chevy Chase, when he anchored the first Saturday Night Live faux-news desk, had a running joke that satirized, post-mortem, the endless medical updates provided by the public relations machine of a dying dictator …
“Here’s a bulletin from Spain: Doctors are...
The next major change in the army took place at the end of the 2nd century B.C. when Gaius Marius was elected Consul, placing him in command of the Roman army. Ceaseless attacks from the Germanic tribes forced large armies to be raised to defend Rome. However, just with Cannibal in the...
It is the war of the sated against the famished, the obese against the emaciated, the affluent against the impoverished, the democracies against tyranny, perhaps Christianity against Islam and definitely the West against the Orient. It is the ultimate metaphor, replete with “mass...
Please help protect YOUR rights! WE the American people are being hit HARD by our Federal System. A woman by the Name of Angel Raich just lost her case in the Ninth District Court for the right to use Medical Marijuana as all else has failed her. Now in the United States the Judges care more...
I hate it when Saddam Hussein gets proved to be right …
Buried in all his pre-invasion bluster was a promise that Iraqis would give the Americans ‘another Viet Nam’ if they tried to occupy the country. To many, this sounded like just another empty threat, but I took note...
The troops fighting overseas in Iraq are caught up in the middle of a terrible war, which is getting worse and worse every day. More and more American troops are getting hurt and killed daily. The worst part about this war is that our enemy is too much of a coward to fight face to face; they...
Mira Markovic is an “Honorary Academic” of the Russian Academy of Science. It cost a lot of money to obtain this title and the Serb multi-billionnaire Karic was only too glad to cough it up. Whatever else you say about Balkan cronies, they rarely bite the hand that feeds them (unless...