November 24, 2012

New Beginnings

With regard to the recent election, what is done is done. The Republic will have to take its lumps, again, for another four years. So, short of secession movements and other unorthodox remedies, what are the approximately one-half of voting American ...

June 2, 2012

Who's a Hero?

This treatise promises to alienate me from some friends as well as many strangers.  Still, my understanding of certain words and ideas compels me to write and offer it for publication, regardless any possible personal cost.  While it is not...

May 22, 2012

No Soda for You!

One can find more evidence of the erosion of true federalism in the state of Utah.  In a report proffered by Jonathon M. Seidl for The Blaze this past Thursday, a Salt Lake City-area high school is forced to pay a $15,000 fine for operating a so...

April 29, 2012

The ADA and Regulatory Overreach

They are little things to the ambulatory.  We open doors and walk into restaurants with the greatest of ease.  We walk literally for miles in theme parks such as Disney World or Six Flags.  Navigating city streets as pedestrians on con...

April 19, 2012

Watching the Watchers

Somehow, we knew this day would come.  Congress and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are partnering with legislation and execution of the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles for use by law enforcement agencies across the country....

April 8, 2012

Israel's Survival and American Assistance: It's Been Done Before

Ben Stein has offered an easily readable and cogent piece on a stratagem for dealing with the looming menace of a nuclear-armed Iran.  Mr. Stein, in writing for the American Spectator, has made a compelling case for American involvement in helpi...

April 4, 2012

Imperial Presidency Redux

Words and phrases have meaning.  While painfully obvious, we are right to reconsider the simple importance of this fact.  The late Edwin Newman, noted grammarian and news correspondent, often warned of the devolution of the English language...

March 14, 2012

Holder's Department of Injustice

The ruling against the new Texas voting requirements law by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder comes as no surprise to any who have been following the behavior of the Department of Justice's top official.  A Monday (3/12/2012) report from The Was...

March 10, 2012

'Hate Crimes' and 'Occupy' Protests

The three nanny-state wards featured in this online report from Reuters (3/3/2012) exemplify the "Occupy" movement and the infectious attitude of entitlement that grips so many of our contemporaries.  Actions by these thugs in Oakland present ye...

February 16, 2012

School Lunches and Tyranny

An odd combination of themes in the title, don't you think?  Yet, that is exactly what is at play at West Hoke Elementary School in the town of Raeford, North Carolina these days.  A disturbing article proffered by Matt Willoughby of the Jo...