A fork in the road tells travelers that their current path has ended. The travelers are then compelled to decide among the four choices a fork presents. The first options are obvious; choose one of the new paths. The third option is to be satisfied with their current position and remain at the fork. The […]
One of the great fight songs of all time is “On Wisconsin!” which is usually reserved for the Fighting Badgers of the University of Wisconsin football team: “Forward is our driving spirit; Loyal voices ring,” the song proclaims. Retreating and running away from their elective duties seems more like their ‘driving spirit’ nowadays, what with […]
Wisconsin looks like Greece. The recipients of government largess, upon threat of losing it, take to the streets in protest. Their employers, the various schools systems, do not tell them to take off, their union bosses do, and so they lay out of work to protest. As the failure of major public pension funds looms […]
In the almost 30 years I’ve lived in Charlotte, I’ve noticed something quite disturbing – many locals will assume something is correct just because certain people with certain professional, political and/or educational credentials say it is correct. How does this relate to Charlotte and the Democratic National Convention? Many “smart” people are saying that the DNC […]
People in Dearborn, MI can breathe a little easier; a mad bomber is off the streets. Roger Stockholm is safely locked in the jug, charged with issuing terrorist threats and possessing explosives. Stockholm, a 63-year-old Californian, was arrested outside the Islamic Center of America. In his car was a veritable arsenal. Well, it was an […]
By any conventional legislative calculus, it was a stomping. On Monday night, the House Republican leadership successfully passed provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act with a comfortable margin of support. The bill’s three PATRIOT Act surveillance powers, which were set to expire at the end of this month, were extended until December 8th by a […]
Was it possibly that scoundrel Bernie Madoff who made off with hundreds of billions of dollars of client funds and lost them all after he took his big fat cut out of it first, of course? Was it possibly that scoundrel Bernie Madoff who made off with hundreds of billions of dollars of client funds […]
Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts continues to get her name in the news for the wrong reasons. It seems her relationship with County Manager Harry Jones is unholy and behind closed doors the two of them stir the pot backwards. These various episodes have only been a prelude to her next abuse of the taxpayers of […]
Thirty-five years ago the last U.S. soldiers left Vietnam. Yet the war continues because Vietnam’s veterans returned home to contempt rather than appreciation. Even this month a celebration in their honor – held near Ft. Bragg in Fayetteville, NC, no less – can’t escape the longstanding divisions. Fayetteville’s mayor organized this “homecoming” celebration. But he […]
About a week ago I was contacted by Arther Honegger with Swiss TV, inquiring if I would be interested in being filmed for a program that is their version of 60 Minutes. He wanted to interview me as a tea partier, because Franz Zurbrugg (Director General of the Swiss Finance Administration) was coming to Charlotte […]
