Obama executive order a sensible first step
Earlier this week, when President Barack Obama announced his executive order requiring more background checks on gun purchases, the responses…
Politics can ruin even a soldier’s return home
One of the primary functions of our constitutional republic is that we elect people to make decisions on our behalf.…
On fake blizzards, disappearing airplanes and ruining the Internet
When I was young, I walked to school. Uphill. We only had 20 channels and none of them were MTV.…
Perception is everything in politics, life
I’ve said before that if President Barack Obama cured cancer there are some people who would find fault with it.…
Some things just don’t add up
Math isn’t my thing. I’m more of a words guy. But I’m pretty good at simple arithmetic. I can add…
Budget deal nothing to get excited about
As much as I want to herald the dawn of a new spirit of cooperation in the budget/debt limit deal…
Looney GOP keeps playing same Tunes
Shouldn’t there have been a point at which Wyle E. Coyote — super genius — realized that maybe he wasn’t actually that…
I should have avoided Facebook
The only thing worse than the sunny-day patriotism on my Facebook and Twitter feeds is the open use of a…
Obama’s politics opened up can of worms
President Barack Obama pulled a bit of political genius out of his magic hat when he sought Congressional approval to…
Blowing the dust off the forum …
Back in the day … when I was but a wee lad … this website had a pretty active forum…