Just two days after the U.S. House of Representatives decided that a religious icon in San Diego needed federal protection, California’s two ‘liberal Democratic’ senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, appear to have joined ranks with the bible thumpers as a bill heads to the Senate in defense of the Mt. Soledad Cross. Excuse me, […]

It’s the dominant religion in the U.S. claiming around 80% of the population as followers- clearly a majority. And they’ve got the government to do their bidding. Not a day goes by, it seems, that the world’s most powerful, secular-democratic legislative body in the world isn’t pandering to the Christian crowd. (Okay, to be fair, […]

Authoritarianism seems to be popular these days, or at least among those twenty-something percent of Americans who think the President is a swell guy. Recently, I had the good fortune to experience a bit of trickle down Deciderism at work right here in my own neighborhood. And then I got to see it smacked down […]

Sargeant, Did You Pay The Power Bill? Seems like fighting the War Against the Evildoers and keeping the lights on at our Army posts at the same time is just too much to ask for. Oh well, just another sacrifice that our soldiers and their families will have to make while the rest of us […]

Last week, the Senate narrowly defeated an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would have criminalized desecration of the American flag. Dictionary.com defines desecration as “blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character.” This definition, which one must assume the amendment text was using absent any other definition, is one most usually […]

(Note: This article ended up being rather lengthy, more so than I anticipated. Expect a good five minutes to get through this one. – KG) Progressives like me make a point of hammering the Bush administration for every misstep it takes. And to be fair, they make it pretty easy for us, what with banner […]

Imagine you’re enjoying a nice evening at home after a long day at work when the unthinkable happens…you start feeling a pain in your chest that quickly spreads into your arms. You become lightheaded, nauseous, and pale. You feel as if your heart is racing a hundred miles an hour. You are having a heart […]

At least, that’s the message many in the storm ravaged communities along the Gulf Coast are getting from their insurance companies as they attempt to rebuild their homes and their lives after last years devastating Hurricane Katrina reduced their hopes and dreams to so much clutter. This AP article, which is appearing in many newspapers […]

There are few things I despise more than corrupt politicians who intentionally screw over their constituents for their own personal power or profit. One of those things is predatory lenders, like those drive through payday loan places. Although I am fortunate enough never to have had to go to one of those places, many Americans […]

Dictionary.com provides the following definition: my·o·pi·a (n.) Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning. Is it just me or have the American people fallen into a kind of stupor that allows them to accept the myopic worldview force fed to them on a daily basis by an incompetent and corrupt government and […]