What do you see when you look in the mirror? Do you see someone who has inner strength who is willing to fight for his beliefs or do you see someone who caves in at the first sign of confrontation? We are on the threshold of finding out what we are made of because conflict is coming our way, whether we want it to or not. And there won’t be any place we can run to, to escape what is …
What I remember… Old age is such a liberating thing because we have so many memories and so much time to reflect on them. Right now, my memories of America are good ones so those are the ones I’m going to write about. In the not so distant future, my memories of what has become of America will not be good so I’m squeezing out all the goodness of my memories of the America I grew up in. One of …
I’ve been thinking and wondering… On the assumption that Obama has been working with ISIS to destroy America, as most people now think he is, what will happen to him after he leaves office in sixteen months and is no longer of any use to ISIS? If ISIS truly destroys America as they plan to do, they won’t need Obama anymore. His work will be done. And then, what? Anyone with a scintilla of common sense knows that there are …
Anyone who was born in America before Columbus came here can technically be called an American; anyone who came here after Columbus discovered America can technically be called an immigrant. And that makes almost everyone in America an immigrant. So why all this fuss about immigration? We hear all these stories about illegal immigrants using our tax dollars for education, healthcare, etc., but if we didn’t deport immigrants and we had open borders, there wouldn’t be any illegal immigrants. So …
I don’t usually laugh at anyone’s misfortune; in fact, I’m usually compassionate to a fault. But today’s news had me laughing and started my day with a huge smile on my face and I will probably be chuckling all day, just thinking about it. It seems no one is immune to Boston’s Mayor Martin Walsh’s edict that anyone who leaves snow on their sidewalks in front of their homes and businesses will be fined $50 and Secretary of State, John …
We keep hearing politicians tell us that we shouldn’t expect the government to do everything for us. They tell us we should be turning to the private sector to help us. Well, one private citizen has been arrested for doing just what politicians keep telling us what we should be doing. He’s been arrested for feeding the homeless. Advocate Arnold Abbott, a 90-year-old man is fighting charges for feeding Fort Lauderdale’s homeless. Apparently, there are two cases against Abbott for …
“For the first time ever, according to legal experts focused on the subject, a prosecutor who deliberately sent an innocent man to prison by withholding evidence is himself going to be jailed. The case surrounds Michael Morton, a Texas man convicted in 1987 of murdering his wife, and former prosecutor Ken Anderson, the state official responsible for Morton spending 25 years in prison. Anderson withheld crucial evidence in the case as district attorney that could have cleared Morton of the …
Every Election Day, someone who is very dear to me, tries to make me forget to vote. This year, he called me up on Monday and asked me if I had been watching the news and I answered, “For the most part. Why?” He then told me that Election Day had been moved from Tuesday, November 4th, to Wednesday, November 5th. Smiling, I happily told him that I had gone to vote the first day that the early voting sites …
When the early voting locations opened on Monday, I hurried over there. It was a beautiful, sunshiny day and I was going to do my civic duty, something that I’ve always considered a privilege, not a right. I’ve never missed voting in a primary or a general election but, this year, I could have easily given it a miss. Our present governor is a known crook whose company defrauded Medicare and had to reimburse the federal government over $600 million …
I used to listen to Churchill’s speeches over the radio during World War II and most of them made sense, but then, some of them did not. This one rubbed me the wrong way then, and it still does, all these years later. He said, “Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.” That clearly puts people at war …