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Given current event, I thought it appropriate to post Steve Earle’s “Ellis Unit One,” as powerful a song on the subject that I have ever heard. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it’s a song from the point of… Continue Reading →

The State of Wyoming is something of an odd case. In terms of geographic size, it’s a middling state, but in terms of population it is the smallest. This frequently makes it a case-and-point in a number of discussions. Why… Continue Reading →

I’ve been meaning to get stuff done this last week (including a NaPP post or two). But I am a college football fan with obsessive tendencies. And college sports realignment seems to touch on everything: Sports, conceptual organization, business, relationships,… Continue Reading →

Hi there everyone. I’m on vacation this week. I may do some writing but with limited internet access I’m not going to be posting a lot from my phone. So look for more material next week. Cheers!

As I get to putting my thoughts together on my belated 9/11 post (I’m trying to figure out a way of phrasing what I want to say that will minimize the rotten tomatoes hurled in my direction), I wanted to… Continue Reading →

Let me get this straight. Republican Presidential front-runner Rick Perry is catching heat for mandating that girls get vaccinated against the human papilloma virus — not because he awarded the contract to a crony political ally, but rather because it… Continue Reading →

It’s the little things that count, right? In ascending order, you will find the ten smallest [answers] in: Sioux City,Iowa; New York City (Queens), New York; Cincinnati, Ohio; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Washington, D.C.; Great Falls, Montana; El Paso, Texas; Detroit, Michigan;… Continue Reading →

The English word “republic” is taken from the Latin phrase “res publica,” a concept which embraced the government, the culture, the community, and the aggregate sum of public acts of citizens. After the meeting in which the Framing of the… Continue Reading →

I wonder if his next general election ads will have the parts about going after HMOs, increasing insureds, and increasing teacher pay. Well, I guess that last one is out of the president’s sphere. Regardless, it’s an interesting collection of… Continue Reading →

With more bad news about the US Postal Service surfacing, I am noticing a lot of what I believe to be misconceptions. Here are the misconceptions and why I believe they are so: Generally from the Left: The Constitution mandates… Continue Reading →