Beware of Extreme Political Correctness

We have 24 hour news and non-stop social media watching everything with the slightest public exposure. The digital revolution has … More

Walker’s Devil is in the Budget’s Detail

A budget says a lot about what your priorities are. And Governor Walker is certainly showing his hand. The proposed … More

Cut The Military and End Poverty

The Children’s Defense Fund, a group focused on examining and ending child poverty, released a report recently that ranks the … More

The Fallacy of Individualism

Conservatives tend to think of non-essential government spending as a moral and technocratic failure. The Federal government’s stimulus measures are … More

How the Moderate Will Vote for Governor

I am not going out on a limb when I say that most people voting for Walker are doing so … More

We Deserve Better Media

I genuinely feel for the missing passengers of the missing Malaysian flight. But every day when I turned to CNN … More

Let the People Vote!

It’s my personal philosophy not to make politics personal. I may thoroughly despise everything you stand for, but I won’t … More

Unsettled by Ukraine

Crimea is being called the most serious international crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and it may very … More

Chris Christie’s Bridge to Nowhere

You have no doubt heard about the “Bridge Gate” scandal rocking New Jersey politics right now, where senior Christie administration … More

Let the Keystone Pipeline go forward

I am an avid fan of the environment. I like trees and grass. I like clean air and water. I … More

Obama’s Opportunity

The War in Afghanistan, our longest military engagement, is set to end after this year. The Pentagon is proposing the … More

How The Gays Stole Christmas

As long as I can remember, there has been a war on Christmas. Usually it’s godless heathens with the nerve … More

Go Green or Go Home

There’s been a slight surge in the debate on global warming with the super typhoon that swept through the Philippines … More

Stockholm Syndrome

Stockholm syndrome: “A psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy or sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes … More

The worst game of chicken

By now you’ve heard of the heroic efforts of Ted Cruz and congressional Republicans threatening to not fund the government … More

This American Dream

The gilded age in American history was a period of enormous economic expansion as well as unprecedented income inequality and … More

The Syrian Catch-22

I understand the knee jerk reaction to the debate on Syria. On paper it is a situation very similar to … More

Big Brother is Always Watching

No one should be surprised by the knowledge Edward Snowden leaked. After 9/11, we churned out an 8 trillion-dollar governmental leviathan which created dozens of … More