Do you believe in UFOs – unidentified flying objects? How about UFPs – unidentified funded programs? Mark me as curious about UFOs, but dead set against UFPs, especially when the UFP is about UFOs. That’s the gift the American people received this Christmas week courtesy of some good reporting by the New York Times. We’ve come to find out that our federal government … [Read more...]
This 4th of July let’s celebrate human dignity
My brother, who has worked in retail longer than a person should, has a saying about the weird and sometimes cruel things he’s seen people do and say in his store. He passes little judgment. He only shrugs and says: “People are people”. Indeed they are. But unlike my brother, I can’t shrug everything off, especially when it takes our culture in a bad direction. Consider … [Read more...]
CNN starts odd trend in journalism
Are you watching the snit-fight between the president of the United States and the cable news powerhouse CNN? It’s a beaut. Donald Trump called CNN the proprietor of fake news and CNN said the president is a big, fat liar. It has reached a point in which CNN now adds the words “without proof” to about everything the president asserts. Case in point: Trump tweets the … [Read more...]
Senate Should Confirm Oklahoma Attorney General to Head EPA
After eight years of Obama appointees trying to grab dominion over every square foot of rural land in Nevada and the West, laying claim to every mud puddle, dictating how clean the air must be and generally trampling states’ rights under a stampede of bureaucrats, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency promises to be an abrupt about-face … [Read more...]
Our Media’s Terrible Performance
As the 2016 presidential sails into the sunset, one fact ought to concern Americans who rely on an independent press for information – a good many reporters were not independent at all. They worked hand-in-glove with the Clinton campaign against both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Consider the emails released by Wikileaks -- emails that would have remained secret, but now … [Read more...]
Here’s the Rule: If You Break it You Own It
When the stock market goes up or down, credit and blame accrues to the president. Mostly unfair in a global economy, of course, but that’s how Americans judge it. Call it the “Pottery Barn Rule -- If You Break It, You Own It”. No clearer example of this than the post-Trump election stock market rally. Before the election, Democrats said the robust stock market levels … [Read more...]
Dude, Marin Just Got a Little More Marin
Will ‘legal’ pot take the edge off of a Trump presidency? “Unique” isn’t right. Perhaps the word “apart” gets a little closer to the core of it all. The so-called “Marin Bubble” is hard to put into words, but it sometimes feels like living in an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, the title of which might be “The Lost World of Marin.” As a Nevadan splitting time between Nevada … [Read more...]
Kaepernick Spinoffs Jump the Shark
Please, spare me the sanctimony of pointing out that Colin Kaepernick has a right to protest the National Anthem. Everyone knows that. The two points worth making at this juncture are: 1: Just because Kaepernick has a right to protest, doesn’t make the Kaepernick protest right. 2: Spinoffs of the Kaepernick protest have officially jumped the shark. In Kaepernick’s … [Read more...]