Month: April 2024

418 – A Case of Advice or State Intimidation?

If there is a boogie man in the anti-gun community, it’s got to be the National Rifle Association. Accused of complicity in almost every gun crime from gang violence to mass murder, the NRA has become the lightning rod for the vitriol of those whose fear of firearms has grown to an irrational state. What happens though, when government actors advice others about the dangers of doing business with such a company? Is it merely warning of the dangers of sleeping with dogs, or an attempt to use their power to intimidate others into abandoning those they otherwise would do business with? The case of NRA v Vullo is just such a case?

Battles of Lexington and Concord

My wife loves calendars; they are all over the house. There’s one in our bathroom that I look at most mornings, and I’m frequently amazed by the number of holidays listed. Yes, some of those holidays are for other nations, like Boxing Day or Anzac Day. Others are days of recognition, like the resolutions that…

To a racist, everything is about race!

Yes, the United States has a history of racism. Not the one you’ve been led to believe, where everyone everywhere was racist. Ignoring the real history of racism is part of what’s keeping it alive. During my lifetime, I saw segregation decline and become illegal. Sadly, today, racism has not only survived but seems to…

The GOP FISA Sellout! Unreasonable searches for the promise of the intelligence community to keep us safe

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines spying as “…to watch secretly usually for hostile purposes…” which seems to accurately describe what the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, has been used. Sure, the intelligence community uses it to spy on foreign actors, but they also use it to spy on Americans. Speaker Mike Johnson was a critic of the…

Government corruption is not always who or what you think

We all know there’s corruption in government, even if we disagree about who is corrupt and what is considered corrupt behavior. That’s why I think it’s important to look at these allegations of corruption with as unbiased an eye as possible. For example, Joe Biden recently bragged that he was finding ways around the Supreme…

417 – Remembering the Battles of Lexington and Concord

Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Most of us who grew up here in America learned about the battles of Lexington and Concorde from this Longfellow poem. Who does not remember, “One if by land, and two if by sea;” or Paul Revere’s cries of “The British are coming! The British are coming!”?

The part is most of the stories we have heard are not true. Whether poetic license or outright propaganda has been lost to history. However, the story behind those battles is not only well worth the telling, but of great importance to anyone today who still claims the title American.

Labels are a lazy form of discrimination

How many times have you heard it? Someone decides not to participate because they don’t want to be on some list? In my experience, it’s not the list but the label associated with it that makes people nervous. Labels are lazy. They are an easy way to dismiss someone or something without actually having to investigate…

The latest jobs numbers are not as good as DC would like you to believe

There has been a lot of hype in the media around the March jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As with all political reports, it appears the truth is neither as good as the government wants you to believe nor as bad as their political opponents would suggest. A bit of research…