Monthly Archives: February 2015
It’s Howdy Doody Time For America
My childhood neighborhood was vibrant with marauders, Apaches, bank robbers, and posses of boys quick-drawing plastic revolvers to fend off those dastardly villains. Those were days when kids took their cues from America’s global stature and John Wayne blockbusters: never did the world’s evil-doers … Continue reading
Reluctance
History proves that effective leaders display heartfelt reaction to atrocities and danger before, with cogent and well-planned strategy, they respond. With cerebral machinations and overused thesaurus does Obama react to ISIS inhumanity; he responds with visceral determination not to confront that growing evil. Through … Continue reading
Fender Benders
IRS commissioner John Koskinen speaks in riddles and apparatchik gibberish. It’s as if the head of America’s most intrusive and belligerent agency landed his post from somewhere foreign to liberty and prosperity. Warren Sapp, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, seems … Continue reading
Return to the Road To Ruin
It would usher in doomsday, hoped Obama. But for two years America has survived the federal sequester, that irrational mandate for arbitrary spending cuts that was devised to inflict intolerable inconvenience on the citizenry. Layoffs and loss of critical services, the … Continue reading
Demolition Days Are Here Again
Romney’s shed his goggles and left his helmet swinging from a hook in the garage–never again, alleges the former governor, is he willing to get behind the wheel in a presidential race. But the GOP primary isn’t so much race as demolition … Continue reading