The real news you were supposed to see
Does the media have an obligation to tell the truth? In discussing my topic with Joe Varada – who was kind enough to ask me here to speak to you – this question immediately came up, and it set me off on a whole train of thought, helping clarify my own view of ... More »
Every movement has its wackos, its “extremists,” who take the original premise of an idea to its furthest, kookiest application. Usually they are harmless, due to their small numbers and the obvious nuttiness of their ideas. In times of crisis, how... More »
Image courtesy of Valsts kanceleja/ State Chancellery under CC BY-SA 2.0. If anything is desperately needed now in America, it is a vigorous housecleaning of the corrupt morons who were elected under the hollow pretense of being the “lesser of two evils&... More »
The Harper government has allocated $300 million to vaccinate thousands of girls as young as age nine against a sexually transmitted disease, human papillomavirus (HPV), which occasionally causes cervical cancer. The vaccine (Gardasil) only works on girls with... More »
“New weapons require new tactics. Never put new wine into old bottles.” Heinz Guderian, a German officer who challenged der Fuhrer. He grew up in Pittsburgh in a working class, uneducated family. His father owned a bar. Leaving behind the drinking and brawling... More »
Have you heard that the latest Pew Research Poll found that young Jihad terrorists hate the President of the United States? Duh! President George W. Bush is the only world leader fighting the global war on terror. It doesn’t take a national poll to learn that ... More »
Christianity is rooted in Law. Throwbacks to the days of yore, who crusade under the banner of Reformed Christianity are often accused of being rude, crude, and critical. Their direct, often tightly reasoned critiques upset the calm pietism that pervades Ameri... More »
I’m not sure what went through our collective minds at the time. Conservatives were the group that looked afoul of large government. Yet, in the 1960s, during political discussions, when some people would point out that defense spending was the largest item i... More »
Reflecting on Jimmy Carter’s Habitat for Humbug, Bush’s Open Borders, and Bill Clinton’s Open Zippers, it is a mercy that The Soprano’s series ended before Tony’s murky-minded son, A.J., could grow up to be President. The nation is in enough trouble, not the l... More »
When former President William Jefferson Clinton was confronted with the fact that he had lured a low level female government employee named Monica Lewinsky into a sexual relationship, his response was that he did not have sexual relations with Miss Lewinsky. W... More »
“The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliveran... More »
There are rumblings in the GOP that, if they get much louder, threaten to split the Republican Party over the war issue – and I don’t think anything could be much louder (in a good way) than Victor Gold’s colorful dissent from the pro-war neocon or... More »