Jul 3, 2014
Our View: Phony and fabricated scandals
President Obama said last January there isn’t a smidgen of corruption within his administration. He reiterated the fact this week and said the current scandals are “fabricated” and “phony.” How can …
Jun 23, 2014
Slavery Reparations
Calls for slavery reparations have returned with the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations" in The Atlantic magazine (May 21, 2014). In making his argument, Coates goes through t…
Jun 23, 2014
IRS Says It Lost Lois Lerner’s Emails. Right.
I can just see the members of this administration sitting around a table discussing how to handle the inquiry into the IRS targeting of its opponents. David Axelrod says, “Just how dumb do I think Am…
Jun 20, 2014
Who owns you?
Darcy Olsen, president of the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute, and Richard Garr, president of Neuralstem, a biotech company, wrote "Right to Try experimental drugs" in USA Today (5/28/2014). They p…
Jun 20, 2014
Our View: Congressional leaders not too big to fail
In reading reports about the latest scandals plaguing the country, it is appalling government officials say they hope something changes. Shouldn’t elected officials be confident in their ability to c…
Jun 17, 2014
Father's Day – spend time with your children
I wish I had been a better father. I wonder if anybody else has felt this way?
It seems like yesterday that my two beautiful sons Jared and Zachary were only small children. What happened to …
Jun 12, 2014
We must change how we are raising our children
I sold Grit newspapers when I nine years old. It was always a great day when I had sold my last Grit for the week. The profit was five cents per paper. Some weeks I made as much as two dollars! I li…
Jun 9, 2014
The VA Mess is ObamaCare in Ten Years – or Sooner
“Wow, there’s fraud, inefficiency and dishonesty at the VA hospitals?” said no one – except Democrats in D.C.
Not only did Obama feign surprise, other Democrats said they were "shocked" by th…
Jun 5, 2014
Petty Annoyances
Most who read my columns think that I'm only annoyed by politicians, growing government and Americans who have little respect or love for liberty and our Constitution. There are other things that ann…
May 26, 2014
America's Budding Tyrants
From the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have always started out supporting free speech, and why is easy to understand. Speech is vital for the realization of their goals of command, control and con…