A tell in poker is an almost imperceptible variation in a player’s behavior or actions.  Perhaps it’s a change in facial expression, an eye-movement, a subtle glance, a hand gesture, or timing that gives information about the strength or weakness of the player’s hand...

Sometimes I revive old commentaries or concepts from my days writing for the Vail Daily to see if my ideas or notions are still applicable.  And today I’m going to focus on a no-brainer that was quite a bit of fun to write.  It’s about an economic system that has...

The older I get the more I find myself thinking about some of the choices I made in life and how they have affected me to this day.  Why did I attend the University of Dayton and not De Paul University, and what would my life look like now if I had?  And how many of...

Before I moved to Vail some twenty odd years ago, my next-door neighbors in Denver had two sons, Tommy, and Kevin.  Tommy was your typical teenager, but Kevin was 30-year-old man who apart from his six-foot two-inch frame resembled an “adult” in very few ways – you...

Most of us have heard or read that the recruiting goals of the U.S. military are not being met.  And for whatever the reasons, this phenomenon has affected every branch of the service.  Unfortunately, though, the real problem is that the situation is worsening,...

Think about this for a moment, letting old people die is a lot cheaper than spending the kind of money required to keep them alive and well.  So, if a government run medical system is intent on saving serious money, it is almost certain to do so by sacrificing the...

In yesterday’s blog I identified the source of much of the gun violence in the United States and suggested that any realistic discussion of the subject include those who are actually responsible for most of the violence and cited the fact that the prime perpetrators...

Mass shootings are extremely rare in America.  But you wouldn’t know that if you listened to politicians and much of the media.  Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in a recent Senate hearing on gun control that there had been 309 mass shootings...

This is going to be a long blog post because I have a lot to get off my chest.   I’ll begin with a quote from political commentator and social theorist Thomas Sowell.  “That people on the political left have a certain set of opinions, just as people do in other parts...