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...

Recently I’ve been re-reading a few of Thomas Sowell’s social commentaries, and in his 2010 essay The Money of Fools, the words he wrote more than a decade ago still reverberate.  In that piece, Sowell illustrated how certain words and phrases lend themselves to...

Joe Biden received 66% of the Hispanic vote in 2020 – As of this post, he has a 19% approval rating in that demographic while 60% that strongly disapproves of his performance.  So, what does this mean?  Well, for starters, a good argument can be made that Hispanic...

Today I thought I’d do something a bit different and have some fun.  See the list below, it’s a list of things each of us has, i.e., ‘personal needs.’  Personal needs are important in life for our own sanity and in many cases for the sanity of others. For example, if...

You can dunk an Oreo cookie in milk for three (3) seconds without it losing its structural integrity. On average, it takes about 9 hours for a ship to travel through the Panama Canal, as opposed to two weeks if it made the journey around Cape Horn. Each commercial...