America’s Front Yard

Reflections on the National Mall A Flashback I ran across a piece someone wrote a few days ago that mentioned in passing the National Mall, in the heart of Washington, DC. For some reason, it brought back a flood of memories I thought worth sharing. It is one of those …

Most Prominent Physical Feature of a Politician?

No, Not That! No, Not Those Either! Shame on you. Tis the Season I know – sometimes it seems it is eternally the case, but in face we are about to enter another national election cycle. In a little more than a year, we will be voting for all sorts …

Some Really Good News About the Supreme Court

The Court Certainly Was in the Headlines Recently – Now We Live with the Results Happy Fourth of July, America Before today’s posting, a moment to wish everyone a good day celebrating our country’s birthday. For all the huge problems and threats we face (See the discussion below, for example), …

The Terrible Price of Weak Leadership

Two Examples Prove Their Weakness Almost Daily. Now a Third? Why Weak Leaders Carry Such a Cost Every case is unique of course, but finding someone in a leadership position for which they are clearly incapable of fulfilling is a painful thing to observe. In almost every such case, there …

Meet the Swiss Army Knife State Legislators

They Think They Can Do Everything. It Would Be Hard To Be More Wrong Swiss Army Knife? You get the reference. This refers to legislators who think that, now they have power (more on that later), they can act with the force of law on all of their pet projects …

Welcome to the Rogue’s Gallery

Six “Winners” Who Merit Our Disdain Highlighting a Few People That Are Disappointments to Civilization As we all know, the world has at least its share of less than laudable souls walking the Earth. We might even feel that we are way over our quota of such people in recent …