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• Be Careful How You Use the Word – Immigrant

  

  “That’s what America is about, a land of dreams and opportunity,’’ he said. “There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• To the Democrats, This is Why You Lost

  

  Every anti-Trump rant I’ve heard or read coming from Democrats of late has been filled with assumptive statements so lacking in evidence they do little more tha... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• New Year, Same Old New York Times

  Well that didn’t last long.It didn’t take much time at all for the New York Times to steamroll its own mea culpa after the November election. Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Dear Entertainment Industry

  

  This letter has been circulating on social media since the election.  I have no idea who the original author is so I can’t provide attribution, but I believe... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Letter To Meryl Streep (not from Me)

  This may be the most rational, well-written, fair, and accurate rebuttal to Meryl Streep’s public undressing of Donald Trump to date.Don’t expect to see or... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Mrs. Clinton’s Struggles with the Truth

  

  Hillary Clinton will now become a part of political history books as she and her husband finally ride off into the sunset of political life…or so we... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2017 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Silent Majority Decided to Speak Up

  

  I don’t know John Goodwin. All I know is something he penned popped up on my Facebook feed and instantly grabbed my attention. Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Our System Works Even In Its Current Fragile State

  

  All my life I have had a fascination with the founders of this nation and the Constitution of the United States of America they penned. It is my beacon. It is m... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Myth of the Wasted Vote

  

  For the first time in my life I am an undecided voter.With just over two weeks remaining before the election on November 8th I’m not sure who I will check the... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• James Comey Knows the Clintons Well

  

  The rift between America’s Left and Right moved this week.Hillary Clinton has done it again.  She has evaded the grasp of the long arm of the law.What’s that?... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Muhammad Ali and Me

  

  The Greatest is gone. At age 74, Muhammad Ali has died.My dad was a boxer.Everything I know about my father’s boxing career comes from the stories, the trophies... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Dear Media, Way to Get Played…Again

  

  If there is one thing Donald J. Trump is good at it’s making others look stupid…along with himself.In this case it was the media who came away with drool on... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Target’s Potty Policy is Parlous

  

  My wife has always been a big fan of Target stores. She will drive the extra distance to shop there over other stores that are closer to our home.  Whenever we... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Are You a Builder Or a Wrecker?

  

  Years ago, when the internet was beginning to blossom for businesses around the world, I traveled the world teaching people how to take their businesses to the... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• British Documentary on Donald Trump is Just Beastly

  British news anchor, or newsreader as they’re called in Britain, Selina Scott, spent two weeks with Donald Trump in 1995 while producing a 60-minute program... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The 25 Year-Old Donald Trump Documentary You Never Saw Or Heard About

  

  Donald Trump tells us if he’s elected president, he would “be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.”His go to reason to substantiate this... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is It Time for Civil Disobedience?

  

  Civil Disobedience is the act of disobeying a law on grounds of moral or political principle. The classic treatise on this topic is Henry David Thoreau’s “On th... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• When Agenda Driven Journalism Blows Up in Your Face

  

  On Christmas day a Houston mosque was set on fire. The predictable and immediate judgements by media on the Left came fast and furious until the person who... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The New York Times is the Paper of Advocacy

  If anyone was still arguing whether the New York Times was fully vested in the Liberal mantra and political ideology, you need only look at the front page of... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Mother’s Prayer

  

  A Mother’s Day story dedicated to my amazing wife and mother of our four children and to my mom, a woman my feeble words cannot adequately describe. I love... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY