Why is it that you’ll never see a barfight between two guys drinking Chardonnay? What people want most from government is to live their lives with a degree of comfort, a feeling of security, and the belief they can trust the government to function in a reasonable...
Recent Commentaries
Truly Frightening
Many Americans like me fear we are losing the country we grew up in and had hoped or perhaps even assumed that we would pass on to our children, who would in turn pass it on to their children and grandchildren. And there is no better illustration of just how we’re...
You knew it was coming
Delegates from nearly 200 Paris Climate Accord signatories kicked off the U.N. climate summit in Egypt on Sunday with an agreement to discuss compensating poor nations for mounting damage linked to “global warming.” According to the U.N. press release the agreement...
A few thoughts on tomorrow
Has anyone noticed that during the recent campaigning whenever democrat candidates talked about their accomplishments, they always referred to the legislation they’ve passed by their high sounding but misleading names, i.e., the Inflation Reduction Act that doesn't...
The All-Time Greatest Puzzle
To get our mind off of the election I thought we might have some fun today by offering a challenge to my blog readers - below is arguably the all-time greatest word puzzle ever, now there are no catches to this, it's an exercise in pure logic and I'll offer one hint...
The democrats are desperate
Last night I was watching a clip from one of Barack Obama's campaign stops as he tries to pull the democrats' chestnuts out of the fire, wherein he told the adoring crowd that if elected, republicans would take away their Social Security. But what the chosen one...
Lies, lies and more lies
When I look at today’s political scene, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. The lies, deceit and misinformation coming from the left is beyond the pale from the Russian collusion hoax to the notion that Vladimir Putin is the cause of our inflation. However, there...
A Fool’s Errand
a/ˈfo͞olz ˌerənd/ - a task or activity that has no hope of success You cannot argue with someone whose thinking is predicated on a bumper-sticker slogan, i.e., “95% of UN scientists agree that…” the reliable fallback position of climate activists who routinely...
This does not bode well
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...
An (obvious) primer
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...