Truth Matters

Growing up parents and teachers said tell the truth! In court or when taking oaths we swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, and a witty saying advises how truth will set you free. Virtually everything in life starts off based on honesty, trust and truth. Truth usually boils down to what we saw, heard or read somewhere, as best we recall. Or remembering what we personally said or did to some one or about...

Deadly Political Ignorance

A few years after WWII and into Harry S. Truman’s presidency Winston Churchill, having been ousted as Prime Minister by a growing socialist electorate, gave a radio address warning of an Iron Curtain descending across Europe, a Soviet influence quickly developing into stalemate between the USSR and the west, henceforth called The Cold War. This geopolitical reality shaped the course of events for the next 40yrs until...

America Spiralling Down

If you’ve ever seen footage of a plane losing power and rolling into a death spiral you know that unless it restarts the engine there’s no hope for a safe landing. Planes fly due to decades of technology creating a multitude of moving parts. If some fail back-ups kick in, but things like engines are self-reliant. They fail, it’s over. Many now see America as a doomed airplane whose engine has stopped, myself...

Menace To Society

Many don’t remember or aren’t acquainted with the Public Enemy era of the 1930’s when outlaws were like movie stars and Bonnie & Clyde roamed the land. Bonnie was the girlfriend/moll of Clyde Barrow and they rolled roughshod over the mid-west robbing banks and killing randomly as needed. Eventually they were tracked down, ambushed while driving their car across a field, and killed in a hail of gunfire....

No Choice

When Trump burst on the scene I thought it was political theater of some kind. His form of ego nourishment, whatever. The first debate would tell the tale. Surprise! He held his own, albeit clumsily and with little tact. But he wasn’t flat-footed stammering for words. Quite frankly, he pulled it off. It was we who were flat-footed and the media and political pundits. I remember thinking he might actually have a chance,...