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What is the value of our reporting media to our citizens these days? There was a time when investigative reporting exposed the most egregiou...

The Platform of the American People This Platform says it better than I can hope to. And it takes elections at all levels, local, state, and...

Most of us are not bogged down by the past We don’t have the time or luxury. The future is so much more important to Americans and their fa...

The practical value of an America first policy Even like the greatest performers, the USA can only juggle so many balls at the same time. K...

The handwriting has been on the wall a long time The period of Nation Inc. has come and gone. The period of business Inc. is still alive an...

Do not discount Pakistan’s British heritage Most of us don’t believe everything we hear, and certainly not what we see on TV. Add in the p...

If times get hard, can we live off the land? Since most cannot, do we decide to surrender? Or do we do our best to survive? Can we survive r...

The world is full of little trickles of water Some become floods of water in the world, and also in politics. And even little trickles of bl...

The retirements of our county and state government employees will consume us The amount of guaranteed retirement benefits to our local and s...

What a shame about the influence and frustration of some bloggers Now it has become political and even censorship by the “owners” of some in...

The human instinct to dominate others is normal There have always been alpha males and alpha females. What is new is the choice of using go...

Let Santa be Santa What are parents and leaders for? Having just read another younger psychologist's recommendation about how to handle ...

The difference between a national interest hungry American and an idealist American should be a great divide That there is not a divide is f...

Old prejudices don’t “just fade away”. They evolve to live another day. The rate they pop up in the most unabashed ways these days, mostly ...

If everyone has a college degree, who is going to do the blue collar work? There are other paths to happiness and self-respect. And a colleg...

The rise of the elite ruling classes in the USA new world is something new We did not elect most of them, but somehow they got to today’s po...

Never accept today’s status quo as normal After all, for a thinking younger person, things that exist today probably do so because it is a g...

The litmus test for the world’s future is immigration Just who is moving where and why? All the politicians and pundits and media and acade...

Leadership is an idea whose time has come again Leadership is about devotion to principles or a mission. It is not a formula. Leadership is...

Trying to live the hippie lifestyle and "living off the land" sucks. Talk about a good idea gone bad. Mostly the bad is due to hum...