YOU CAN BE BANNED IN TOKYO (if you misbehave in Vegas) Recently, Paris Hilton was politely, but firmly, told by Japanese authorities to kindly re-board her private jet ….and fly back to where she came from. Apparently, these days, what
THE STIMULUS OPERATION WAS A SUCCESS! (but the economy remains in ICU, and we haven’t a clue how or when it will recover) The recent pronouncements coming from various assorted experts, pundits, and politicos, back there in Washington, that the
LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE (only exists under secular law) America’s stability as a nation for the past two hundred odd years is due, in large measure, to its constitutional provisions for liberty of conscience within a framework of secular law. In
A BONFIRE OF VANITY (Savaranola redux) In Florida, a Pentacostal preacher man’s plans to commemorate the horrendous events of 9/11, by having a bonfire of as many copies of the Koran as possible, is more than just a futile exercise
A BOGEYMAN SYNDROME (and, please, check under our beds too!) The proposed Muslim cultural center and mosque project in New York City, several blocks away from – Ground Zero – , is causing a firestorm of hysterical protest in reaction
VOTING OFF-PARTY (if you don’t care for jackasses or pachyderms anymore) Among many folks who are registered, and actually vote, there seems to be the mistaken notion that they can only vote for candidates of either the Democratic or the
IF YOU’RE STARVING IN SAN FRANCISCO (you might as well be sleepless – in Seattle) Few of our elected officials, or their apartnik coterie of bureaucrats, seem able to come up with a unitarian definition of….poverty. Poverty, however, is a
FACING THE AFTERMATH (means moving forward briskly – lest the past gain on us) If nothing else, this midterm election has shown that when the American electorate gets riled up – career politicos can, and do, find themselves unemployed, replaced
HOPES FOR A MEANINGFUL SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION (dissolving into the sound and fury of a tea party signifying….nothing) Earlier this year we saw and heard loud and heated outbursts from the mass of this country’s taxpaying voters. They were fed
A GROWING CANCER IN AMERICA (from the viral infection of an ever expanding Federal authority) Our American republic faces a potentially terminal cancer, one which grows ever more dangerous to our ideals of personal freedom, un-constricted innovative enterprise, economic mobility