Today is Election Day and instead of speculating about the outcome, I thought to share some thoughts about outcomes of even greater import – life and how we live it. A Winner makes commitments—A loser makes promises. When a winner makes a mistake he says, “I was...
Recent Commentaries
The Collective Wisdom or Divine Providence
In the summer of 1776, the American Revolutionary War was still in its early stages. British forces, led by General William Howe, had successfully landed on Long Island, New York, and confronted the Continental Army. The battle that ensued, known as the Battle of...
Just Sayin’
The ideological Left, including presidential candidate Kamala Harris has it backwards regarding capitalism and believe its prime motivation is selfishness and greed. And while you cannot extract the human condition from any economic system, capitalism begins not with...
Taxes, Fascists & Foreign Policy
I saw a vehicle the other day sporting two bumper stickers. The first read, Harris-Walz; the second, Everyone Must Pay Their Fair Share. The owner of the vehicle was obviously a democrat evinced by their inability to examine an issue in depth or to get beyond the...
Leadership isn’t a communal activity
Recently I visited the Pima Air & Space Museum here in Tucson, and among the many exhibits was a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, the same type aircraft I flew in Vietnam. But it was the helicopter’s squadron designation that fascinated me – HMM-163, which just...
When someone tells you what they are, believe them!
During a surprise press briefing the president said the following about Kamala Harris’ participation in his administration, "Well, she's, I'm in constant contact with her. She's aware we all, we're singing from the same song sheet. We, she helped pass all the laws...
Don’t Cut Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face
The common denominator among socialism and all of its iterations is that power is held by a small group of people, usually belonging to a single political party. And every iteration of socialism has rejected capitalism in favor of wealth equality and public control...
The Democrat Party versus Our Children
True to form the democrats unveiled an education platform which is the same old thing with emphasis on universal pre-K and free community college and against “private school vouchers.” When you read the platform below, they want us to believe they’ve accomplished...
It Could Have Been Over by Now
Let’s call a spade a spade – Donald Trump countenance makes it difficult for someone, anyone to vote for him. And I don’t know about you, but I was somewhere between disappointed and disgusted by his debate performance if that’s what you want to call it, versus...
Where Does the Hatred Come From?
The Founders gave us and the world a unique gift, i.e., a form of government that has brought more opportunity, more freedom and has improved the quality of life for more people than any nation in history. And the further we deviate from the Founders’ vision, the...