Sixteen Septembers (Adapted from a previous post on 9/11/16) •This past Sunday was number sixteen. Sixteen Septembers. Sixteen years. Two Towers. Four jets. One flank of the Pentagon. One field in southwestern Pennsylvania. Three thousand souls. Three presidents. Two wars. Many determined enemies. •Sixteen Septembers later, America has moved on. As it HAD to. We treated the few lucky enough
It is sad to think that, come March 2018, children that have lived most of their lives in the US, but were brought here illegally, will be loosing the protected status provided by Obama’s DACA (Delayed Action on Children Arrivals) presidential decree. It IS true, that the children themselves did nothing wrong and it is quite understandable that they they’re
In our well meaning quest to prove just how enlightened a society we are, America, as a nation, has been tripping all over itself to welcome people from other shores and other countries. In this blind rush to bring foreigners to our country Americans are, apparently, unaware of a hidden danger. And, in many circumstances, America is getting MUCH more
Runaway immigration has it’s advocates. The democrats like it because the believe that it will, in the future, generate huge numbers of, presumably grateful and loyal democrat voters. Big agriculture and big business like it because it will provide lots of workers willing, presumably, to work for very low wages, keeping the cost of farming and production low. Idealists like
We KNEW there’d be a lot of nonsense. Once we saw criticism of President Trump for singing along with the National Anthem, we just KNEW there’d be boatloads of nonsense to come. And our expectations have been fulfilled many times over. Maxine Waters (always amazing to follow) expressed her indignation at Mr. Trump’s pardon of Sherif Arpaio. In a tweet,
One of the most prescient leitmotifs in George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece 1984 was the concept of “Newspeak.” Mr. Orwell showed how the manipulation of language was an essential tool of “Big Brother” (the totalitarian state). Orwell realized that changing the meaning of words was essential to control the masses. For example, “Joycamp” was a forced labor concentration camp. “Miniluv” was
On my way back from Colorado, I believe that I’ve been the victim of racial profiling. I know it’s hard to believe that in this day and age of heightened sensitivity to racial and political fairness that I would be profiled. But it did happen. The Denver International Airport is famous for two things. First, it’s the only airport in
It is said that one of the most intolerable things to endure is to be ahead of one’s own time. There are stories of thinkers, scientists and inventors that have been tortured by the rejection of their ideas which were later proven to be CORRECT. Horace Wells, who discovered the analgesic properties of nitrous oxide, is a good example. A
Well today it was Barcelona. Thirteen dead. Over 100 maimed or injured. Another day, another atrocity. Despite the plethora of the major massacres that pop up on our TV screens from time to time , few Americans have a sense of how prevalent Islamic violence really is. Although Americans are aware of high profile attacks like Barcelona, Nice, Paris, London,
It is absolutely astonishing to see how our blatantly biased media keeps on beating the dead horse of President Trump’s commentary regarding Charlottesville. They WON’T let it go. You would think that it was Trump that ran over Heather Heyer with his golf cart. For purposes of analysis, and to sort out some very confused thinking and commentary, it’s absolutely