Archive for the 'Groundhog Day' Category
Like watching a car full of drunken teenagers slide sideways on the ice
Wednesday, March 10th, 2021Shut down the secret court, flush the FBI
Wednesday, September 16th, 2020Who stood to gain by panicking the nation & shutting down our entire economy, over an epidemic that will likely kill fewer Americans than the ‘regular old flu’?
Friday, March 20th, 2020Keys to Success in School (SIGNED)
Friday, December 7th, 2018(Offered for sale at: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=18915994765&searchurl=sortby%3D17%26vci%3D51238921 )
Setting up the straw man
Thursday, June 16th, 2016About a week after the Libertarian Party convention in Orlando rebuffed the candidacies of John McAfee and a few other freedom radicals over the Memorial Day weekend — instead deciding to try again with “moderate” former New Mexico Republican Gov. Gary Johnson and the even less libertarian gun-grabbing Republican Bill Weld of Massachusetts — party […]
The ‘government shutdown’
Monday, October 21st, 2013My mom called me the other day to ask whether I thought the “government shutdown” would impact some state program or other. I can see how the thought arose, given that there are hardly any independent “state programs” any more (most having fallen victim to the siren call of “supplemental federal funding,” which leaves them […]
Making life worse for those in pain
Sunday, March 10th, 2013During the Christmas season, 1994, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration put Las Vegas medical doctor Dietrich Stoermer, who had treated our troops in Vietnam, on trial here for writing “too many” painkiller prescriptions. Since other doctors worried about being “red-flagged” by the drug police if they took on the cases of chronic pain patients, Dr. […]
Steal from the rich, and give it all to … me
Sunday, December 2nd, 2012As much as I love Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings”, the Peter Jackson movie is better in several ways, one of which is the haunting voice-over introduction, in which Cate Blanchett’s Galadriel intones, overdubbing herself so she’s heard in both English and Elvish, “The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel […]
How are we doin’?
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012How are we doing, safeguarding those “unalienable Rights” with which we are “endowed by our Creator” — in support of which 56 patriots solemnly pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred Honor, 236 years ago? We remain free by many measures. Americans can still pretty much live where we want, work where we want, […]