Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover investigated John Lennon of the Beatles for being a subversive element to the United States. Hoover and President Lyndon Johnson worried Lennon would hurt LBJ’s reelection chances in 1968. […]
We took our grandson to Krispy Kreme the other morning for the requisite grandparent bonding. He wanted a yellow one; a plain one and a chocolate one so we figured we could get a half-dozen […]
A lot is being made of top PGA golfers jumping to the LIV Tour for monumental amounts of money. It brings to mind conflicting thoughts: 1) Shouldn’t any American be free to make as money […]
University presidents may not realize it yet but the debate about the realignment of college football conferences will force them have to deal with a question none of them wants to answer ― is a […]
Thomas Paine wrote in The American Crisis: “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to […]
There is hardly anyone in America who is a true dyed-in-the-wool socialist. They may talk as if they believe America would be better off if it became socialist but very few actually act out their […]
Ronald Reagan used to say “governments’ programs, once launched, never disappear.” The agencies running those programs are “the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth” he would add which always generated […]
Most people really don’t understand the fundamental mechanics of how recessions occur. Recessions occur just like economic booms occur ― they run on human emotion and reason, in both the negative and positive sense. When […]
Freedom of expression and competition among a very few extraordinary people are at the heart of major advancements in human history. When both are allowed to flourish, everyone benefits. When either one, or both, are […]
Many young Americans are rose-colored glassy-eyed in love with European socialism. They should go to Europe. They will come back loving America more than John Wayne and Ronald Reagan. My wife and I recently returned […]
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