For fifteen wonderful years, I taught skiing for Vail Resorts and had the opportunity to teach people from all over the world. I loved every minute of it. Being a ski instructor was that rare job where work felt like play, and where having fun wasn’t a distraction...
Recent Commentaries
E Pluribus Unum
We hear the refrain, “We’re a nation of immigrants,” but that’s just more ill-thought-out bumper-sticker mentality because beneath the noise lies a much deeper philosophical divide. The real debate shouldn’t be about immigration per se. Rather, as a nation we need...
Rethinking Immigration in the Real World
~ Today’s post is the first of a two-part series regarding our failing immigration system and what we need to do about – part two will appear tomorrow. ~ An Afghan refugee who once worked with the CIA ambushes two American National Guardsmen, killing 20-year-old Army...
Accusation, Rumor and Speculation in D.C. – Go Figure!
I am writing prior to the Sunday morning talk shows and don’t know if the ambush deaths of two American servicemen and an interpreter Syria will keep Rep. Ilhan Omar’s immigration issue from being the day’s headline, which it likely will. Nonetheless, the Minnesota...
When Photos Lie Without Lying: The False-Light Smear of Donald Trump
Yesterday, Democrats released what they described as another tranche of “bombshell” images from the Epstein files, prominently featuring a decades-old photograph of Donald Trump. The clear intent was to suggest that Trump is somehow implicated in Epstein’s criminal...
They Just Didn’t Realize it!
The Second World War has always fascinated me for any number of reasons, and yesterday in honor of the attack on Pearl Harbor I wrote about ‘the carriers that weren’t there.’ And today I want to continue with the World War II theme and offer an opinion about the...
The Carriers that Weren’t There
Eighty-four years ago today, on December 7, 1941, “a day that will live in infamy,” the United States was attacked by the naval and air forces of Imperial Japan—an event that plunged our nation into World War II. It’s often been said that America was “lucky” none of...
Headlines before Facts
People believe what they want to believe—especially regarding politics because political views become tied to tribe, self-image, and emotion; so, accepting contradictory evidence feels like a threat. To avoid that discomfort, we gravitate toward information that...
In Wine There’s Truth
On November 6th, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, struck down an Ohio school district’s pronoun policy in a win for free speech and student rights. The court ‘sitting en banc’ ruled 10-7 that “the mere use of biological pronouns does not entail ‘aggressive,...
Warped Compassion
Conservative political commentator, Judd Garrett, clearly illustrated the fallacy of “restorative justice” in a commentary underpinned by the recent series of egregious crimes that made national headlines. Chicago: 26-year-old Bethany McGee was riding a CTA train when...