A discussion board contributor said, “I wish we could do an experiment and send all leftists to an island and then compare the mainland US to it in 100 years." I thought about asking him who exactly he had it in mind to send into exile, but I am sure he would have...

More than a year ago I began to think that I must have a gas leak or that my car was burning gas excessively. My gas wasn’t going as far and I needed gas more often. The problem wasn’t my car. The price of gas had gone up. The Covid epidemic and supply chain backlogs...

In today’s highly charged political arena, it would be useful and wise to be somewhat circumspect about the things we post. Just a friendly reminder! Some posters on Facebook and elsewhere seem to be confused about their constitutional rights to say anything, even if...

Many are naturally perplexed at the events in Ukraine over the past few days. What motivates Vladimir Putin to invade Russia’s neighbor, Ukraine, and what motivates some mis-guided Americans to support these murderous actions? At the risk of over-simplifying and for...

This post is about two things that cannot logically co-exist: No-knock warrants and the right to own a personal firearm for self-protection. If those two things are allowable and sanctioned, then the incidence of deadly, and unnecessary, gun battles between police and...

A good friend, fearing my ideological compass might be skewed, gifted me with a copy of the National Review as he often does. The lead article, May 17, 2021, was The Inequality of Equity by Christopher Caldwell. Mr. Caldwell wrote a thoughtful and erudite piece, worth...

George Carlin (deceased) is in my all-time top three of funny people, if not number one. For me the other two are Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor (before he burned his face off). Chris Rock is very funny, and there are others, men and women, who thankfully make me...

The oft repeated call by conservatives for small government is puzzling. What exactly does that mean? Do they want our government to be run by a single bureaucrat perhaps working out of a broom closet in Fairbanks, Alaska? That would be small, and as appealing as that...

Here in America, we could paraphrase J.F.K’s words, as follows: We prefer the Rule of Law in the age of self-determination to unfettered lawlessness. America began in the historic fight for Self-determination known as the Revolutionary War. The desire to have our own...

My name is John Anon, short for John Anonymous, and I am the resurrected spirit of the British Inspiration for the Founding Fathers, John Locke. I have come back from the grave to put one or two things right that my cousin Q seems to have gotten wrong! It was recently...