There has been quite a bit of reporting and editorializing on the subject of the video of U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban terrorists a few days ago. I was told that upon hearing of the incident the President was relieved to hear that it was not our Navy Corpsemen that were pee’d on. The act itself has not intrigued me as much as the reaction to it has, and I don’t mean fro...
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Paramount Pictures released its newest Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movie a few weeks ago to great fanfare and an all out advertising blitz. Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt, and true to the title of the film, Hunt takes on the seemingly impossible task of trying to avert all out nuclear war against overwhelming odds. This primary season and the run up to it appear to present patrio...
In Atlas Shrugged, Galt’s Gulch was an objectivist utopia where laissez-faire capitalism and individuality took the place of government bureaucracy. America seems to have given up any hope in becoming such a place, but there is a way to raise your children in Galt’s Gulch: homeschooling. I would be remiss not to begin by saying that this is not a critique of the decision not to homeschool....
I know it’s about as edgy as a beach ball to criticize Boehner at this point, but asking him to act in the best interest of sincere fiscal conservatism was like having Jane Fonda give advice on how to age gracefully. Do you know why Democrat majorities are so tremendously successful in achieving the goals of their agenda? It’s because even the most moderate members of their part...
There was a time in the not too distant past when I was a real fan of investing in gold. Over the past several years, gold has proven to be a commodity that has risen in value and provided a tremendous rate of return. But then, I started reviewing history, and recognized that over time, there have been many items that had the same stature at one time or another. Salt bars were used as currency of ...
It’s time to face the facts. We no longer have any privacy. Certainly not like what we used to enjoy, if a truly private moment was sought. Every phone now comes with a camera, and with an internet connection – so the photos and videos shot with said camera can be quickly downloaded to any number of web sites for anyone on the planet to peruse should they have the morbid curiosity to do so. Ca...
The TSA is no longer the frontrunner in the Killers of the Constitution Contest for year 2011. The judiciary– on both the state and federal level– has officially entered the competition and I gotta tell you, we might as well give them the crown now. When I wrote last November about the Department of Homeland Security declaring it a terrorist act to speak out against TSA policy, I t...
I’ve got a confession to make: I was an initial supporter of the Patriot Act. For those who are warming up their Neo-Con branding iron as they’re reading this, I’ll add the qualifier that I was too young for a driver’s license at the time, so you can’t really hold it against me that I wasn’t well-versed on slippery-slope erosions of Constitutional rights. Anyhow, America was finall...
Every day it becomes more apparent that the more laws and regulations government bestows upon us, the less productive we become as a society. Now before anyone gets their panties in a wad – I am NOT an anarchist – I certainly understand why it’s important to protect children and the elderly from anyone who might take advantage of them in any way. But those laws fall under the category of “...
(Warning: Language) Remember Charles Manson? Charlie, of course, was the patriarch of what came to be known as the Manson Family, a nomadic gaggle of drug-abusing flower children whose adventures culminated in a psychotic blood-rampage throughout the Los Angeles area in 1969. (Charlie’s family didn’t just snuff their victims’ lives, either; they…did things.) Charlie had built up a f...
