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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Upon hearing that we are ‘home-schooling’ parents, many people ask my wife and I “Why?”. The long and the short of it is very simple. We as parents have found the system largely responsible for the education of American children to be sorely lacking. We and our older children have been ‘beneficiaries’ of the system and having experienced it both as participants...
I’ve been following politics at some level since I was a snot-nosed ten-year-old wearing a Barry Goldwater campaign button. I’ve seen some interesting things take place – I’ve watched the “two party system” diminish into nothing more than a power grab, leaving principles and philosophies in the dirt, only to be dusted off around election time –and promptly dropped back into the dirt...
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 “...
On a sultry August afternoon in 1787, some half a hundred representatives filled a room in a building in Philadelphia where they pooled their talents toward an unprecedented goal. They discussed, debated, argued, and deliberated over the construction of a most singular document: a written enumeration of governing tenets that every man present hoped would be impressed upon the history of civilizati...
As state and federal budgets bleed out, governments and agencies are taking an aggressive look at ways to increase their revenue stream. This will mean much more “proactive” (I really, really hate that word) enforcement of laws and regulations. That will mean we’ll be paying dearly for the irresponsible way local, state, and federal governments have pissed away their treasuries. This is a co...
*(when not bastardized) Surprise, surprise…We are slowly coming to face the fact that many trendy “green” things actually harm the environment instead of helping it. Unfortunately, some of us are not learning this lesson, and new “green” activities are being pushed that are lacking in forethought, not to mention just as harmful to the planet than the thing replaced. One perfect exam...
I’m writing this on November 1st, 2010 – the eve before the 2010 mid-term elections. We’ve seen one of the most contentious and outrageous “election seasons” possibly ever in the history of our country. Have you ever stopped to wonder “why” these elections get so dirty? Have you ever wondered why a person would spend millions of dollars (in many cases, much of that is their own mon...
Dear Senator Brown, You, sir, should count your blessings that you are not up for re-election at this time. I just finished reading your USA Today op-ed, and let me tell you sir, you are a piece of work. I have never been so furious with you as I am right now – and I’ve been pretty hacked off at you on many occasions. You have some nerve, writing an article like that, an article that call...
Growing up the daughter of two veterans and having later married one, I have heard my fair share of VA horror stories. If we don’t fight back in November and fight back hard, we’ll have a chance to see one of the struggles that our men and women in uniform face: trying to receive adequate treatment from a government-run healthcare system. I interviewed veterans and VA workers from across the...
