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...
Recent Commentaries
Gun violence – first consider the source
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...
There is no rational explanation for their behavior
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...
Social Justice
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...
The real threat to our democracy
I was re-reading an old piece from Thomas Sowell and decided the timing was ideal for this blog. We all remember Hope & Change. But to this day I haven't heart anyone explain what Obama’s bumper-sticker message actually meant, or if those who rhapsodized over it...
Are the democrats losing Hispanic voters?
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...
Do you really know what you want?
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...
Absolutely have to know facts
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...
Let’s get real about energy and climate change
Does anyone realize just how insane the administration’s energy policy is? The industrialized world runs on energy; and reliable energy is essential for most activities of modern society because without energy nothing happens. And perhaps the most cogent phrase I’ve...
In seeking truth, you have to get both sides of the story
Walter Cronkite was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981). During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as the “Father of television journalism” and even more importantly, "the most trusted man in...