In today’s world we see threats everywhere. The evening news report is full of them; rioters looting and destroying, unknown perpetrators invading homes, bank robbers, pedophiles, and the list goes on and on. How do these threats pertain to you? I view threats in threat two categories, active and passive. An active threat is one […]
Report 28 Ruminations
Friends, Fixing breakfast this cold, Saturday morning, hoping for a couple of days of thaw this early January, I got to thinking about the state of our country. Not the state of our foreign relations or the political process or the economics of the country at large, but the state of our citizens’ regard for […]
Report 27 Republicans and Donald Trump
Well, the election is over and everyone, at least Republicans, is relieved and happy, or are they? I will be the first to admit that Donald Trump was not my first choice for a number of reasons but I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that Hillary Clinton should not now or ever be […]
Report 26, Thoughts on the Tenth Amendment
Friends, I am in a quandary. As a strong 10th Amendment supporter I definitely want to see the feds stay out of the business of the states. For instance, the feds have no business getting into the education systems of the states, even though they have injected themselves through the Department of Education. I have […]
Report 25 Chicago, How’s that Gun Control Thing Working Out For You?
This is going to be a short piece to talk about the intelligence of gun control. Now, there’s an oxymoron for you. Yesterday it was reported that Chicago police reported that there were 90 homicides in August, yes, last month. Well, that’s not so bad considering that there were 472 shooting victims for the same […]
Report 24 Is There a Justification for Nullification
Friends, Most of the folks reading this are of the Conservative persuasion. There are a couple of definitions for Conservatism. On is to maintain things the way they are and the other is to return to the way things were. Anyone who knows me knows that I am of the latter camp. Over the past […]
Report 23, Thoughts on the Second Amendment
Today President Obama announced that he was taking unilateral action of tightening up controls on guns. He is of the opinion that he can take whatever action he wants without congressional action. This is just the latest in a long list of illegal and, pointedly unconstitutional actions he has taken, but that is a conversation for […]
Report 22, Gun-Free Zones, Are They Safe?
This morning, 9 November 2015, “Authorities in New York City say three people have been shot, one fatally, in midtown Manhattan near busy Penn Station.” Bearing in mind that New York City is basically a gun-free zone, what does this event have to do with gun-free zones? In this case, there are two points that […]
Report 21, Stopping the Threat
This morning, 2 November 2015, Fox News reported that a Concealed Handgun Permit (CHP) license holder shot and killed a man attempting to rob a store in Chicago. You can read the article here. As of the posting of the news article, there have been no charges filed against the CHP holder. Understanding that I […]
Report 20, Ruminations on the 4th of July
Today is the 239th anniversary of our founding. We Americans are going through some of the toughest times we have seen since the Civil War. From recollection of my study of history the Civil War did more to fundamentally change the way the United States conducted business than any other time in our history up […]