I’ve refrained from blogging since the assassination attempt because who am I to compete with the fair-minded & astute analyses from the likes of Joe Scarborough, Chris Wallace and George Stephanopoulos?  Nonetheless, I can’t hold my tongue forever, so here are a...

After the terror attack on 9/11 I wrote a letter-to-the-editor of the Vail Daily.  The editor, Don Rogers, published my letter in full and called to ask if I would meet him for lunch, which I did.  At lunch Don asked me if I would consider writing a weekly commentary...

Quite obviously the blog post I had written for today is in my electronic waste basket and there's nothing I can say that hasn't either been said or speculated about.  And no matter how one does the calculus, what occurred on Saturday doesn't paint a pretty picture...

A lie is an intentional untruth made with deliberate intent to deceive and/or to convey a false impression.  Meanwhile, an exaggeration is an action wherein the individual makes a statement that represents something as better or worse than it really is.  As practical...

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...