FOX’s GOP debates were watched by 24 million viewers, making it the highest-rated primary debate in television history. For perspective, the first GOP primary debate four years ago, also on Fox, attracted 3.2 million viewers and the most-watched primary debate that year, broadcast by ABC, reached 7.6 million. You might disagree over which candidate fared…

“I had no idea that John F. Kennedy replaced Ben Franklin on the fifty-cent piece,” Mary stated out of the blue. “Yeah,” I responded, “In 1964.” “Why?” she shot back. “I guess because he was assassinated,” I answered. “Well, that’s a stupid reason,” she huffed, adding “besides he was a bad man!” She vented about…

“Amen,” I finished, as I adjusted the pillow under my head. Now it was time to wait for sleep to arrive. And as usual my mind rapidly wound through the day’s activities and thoughts about worldly events. “When will I not have to write so much political shit?” I groaned, thinking about the frenetic writing…

Earlier this year, CEO Dan Price of Seattle-based Gravity Payments, made headlines after raising his employees’ base salary to $70,000 a year. Yet, not everyone at Gravity Payments agrees with his plans to share the wealth. Two of his top employees quit in protest whose departure was “spurred in part by their view that it…

Even if the White House refuses to use the words “Islam” and “radical” in the same sentence, the FBI appears to be taking the threat of domestic terrorism seriously. They issued an alert on July 2 to all law enforcement agencies in Colorado and Wyoming about a group of Middle Eastern men threatening U.S. military…

While everyone in the national media’s focused on the line-up for the prime-time Republican debate and who’s ‘qualified’ to take part, they’ve ignored another move made by President Obama that will damage the U.S. economy further than his signature health care plan is doing. This time Obama’s forcing states to close their coal plants and…

Progressive Senators blocked efforts to end federal funding of Planned Parenthood. The legislation was in response to undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing how they provide medical researchers with tissue from aborted fetuses, when in fact they are illegally selling the organs for profit. The four videos released by the Centers for Medical Progress…

One of the Islamic terrorists, who attacked the “Draw Mohammed” event in Garland, Texas last May, bought a weapon through then-U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ gun operation that allowed thousands of firearms fall into criminal hands. Five years before the attack that ended in his death, Nadir Soofi, purchased one of…

She’s in her mid-twenties, blonde with a very muscular body and a loud mouth. And she insisted on giving me a bad time about my pudgy gut. “Face it, Tom.” Jenn said, “You’re jus’ an fat old man.” “Yeah,” I responded, “But I can still take a punch to the gut with no problem.” She…

We were making our way across the playa after a day of chasing wild Mustangs out of the nearby canyons for a soon-to-be-happening round-up. Tired and sore, I let my horse have its head, loosely wrapping the reins around the saddle horn. As I did this, I allowed my feet to dangle free of the…