There’s no need for me comment on what we all watched and heard last Thursday.  Instead, I’m going to write about what I wish would have been the subject of Thursday’s debate, and thus expose the biggest canard the Left is trying to foist upon the American public,...

I love exposing the Left in their prevarications, and in today’s post I’m going to use the Statue of Liberty to illustrate two of them.  Both may seem a bit silly or picayune, but I’m using use them to demonstrate how the Left will use almost any situation to force...

Occam’s Razor, a principle attributed to the 14th century friar, William of Occam, states that in explaining a thing no more assumptions should be made than are necessary.  It’s a principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest...

A few days ago a friend sent me a NY Times article, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/opinion/trump-liberals-authoritarians.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s00.CyBM.cZJIdFXTL9MB&smid=url-share by David Brooks who wrote about Alexandre Lefebvre’s “stirring and...

The word democracy comes from the Greek words’ "demos ( people) and "kratos" (power) and can be thought of as "the power of the people.”  Democracy is a system of government that depends on the will of the people.  However, the word democracy appears nowhere in the...

Today’s post is a cheater blog because it’s April and that’s when guests flock to Tucson and I really haven’t had time to sit down and write – so for your reading entertainment… Do you want the next photo someone takes of you be a good one?  If you do, be certain the...

Last week I wrote about California’s new minimum wage law that’s causing fast-food restaurants to lay off employees, limit hiring, and raise prices.  At the same time, this new law dovetails with the elimination or restriction of the once popular payday loans that...

A double whammy is defined as a situation that is bad in two different ways : a situation in which two bad conditions exist at the same time or two bad things happen one after the other; for example, “with the cold weather and the high cost of heating fuel, homeowners...

It’s the political season and discussions always turn to politics.  So, I thought I would make a few suggestions about how we might engage when encountering  those of a different political ilk.  Long ago I learned the best way to debate  policy with a liberal is by...