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Today my wife and I were privileged to attend the Tea Party recharge rally at Northgate. People’s signs were chuckle-provoking and inspirational and we got this sense, along with several folks we spoke with, that we Tea Partiers, we proud members of the “angry mob,” just may be getting our sea legs for this [...]

   
 
 
 
The current previews for Ridley Scott’s new upcoming movie: Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe (which look excellent by the way), has me thinking about the venerable medieval legend and his lingering influence in our modern society. Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor at first glance seems to many to be a [...]

   
 
 
 
Excuse me? Did I really hear President Obama give a speech yesterday actually lamenting the national debt and admonishing that we can’t pass this kind of debt on to our children? Is he kidding us?
 
Isn’t that kind of like one guy beating another guy with a shovel and lamenting the beating has to [...]

   
 
 
 
I forget which radio blabbermouth I was listening to the other day, blabbermouth being a term I use with irreverent affection, poking fun more at myself than the blabberer, who congealed an issue for me, which has been floating around in my head as sort of an amorphous cloud.
 
Doesn’t matter who it was, being [...]

   
 
 
 
So, the President gives a State of the Union speech that by many accounts was mediocre at best and rambling, whiny, and bordering on nasty at worst. Regardless of this flat performance, opinion polls following the speech showed up to a four-point “up tick” in the President’s approval numbers. Excuse me?
 
What exactly changed after [...]

   
 
 
 
What is it about people, Americans (I almost gag when I even think it), who think nothing of assuming they have a right to dictate how his neighbor uses his own property when it has no real impact on him?
 
I was listening to John Carlson’s radio show yesterday on KVI 570 Seattle (welcome back [...]