• The Coming Answer to $15 an Hour

    Satirical news website, “News Examiner,” reports: “After seeing a decline in earnings for the first time in nine years, McDonald’s plans to do something no other restaurant of its kind has ever done before; open a store run entirely by robots.” “In the end, it will come down to what is best for the shareholders…

  • Same Neck, Different Boot

    The legal authority for U.S. spy agencies collection of phone records and other data expired after the Senate failed to pass legislation extending the powers. The Senate voted 77-17 to move ahead on a House-passed bill, the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection and Online Monitoring Act,” (USA FREEDOM Act)…

  • Obama’s ‘Wet’ Dream Coming True

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) are changing the existing “navigable waterways” rule, adding a number of bodies of water to their jurisdiction. Along with lakes, rivers, bays and such, they want control over all standing waters including drainage ditches, overflow reservoirs and mud puddles.  And though the…

  • Message

    We were sitting in Hunan’s, a Chinese restaurant in Arcata, California.  At the bottom of the menu, I saw something that puzzled me. Holding up the menu, I pointed at the words, asking Cathy, “Does ‘no message,’ mean there’s no fortune in the cookies, or something?” She looked at me, studying my face to see if I…

  • The Clinton’s ‘Golden’ Touch

    The Soccer Cup scandal’s now connected to the Clinton Foundation. In fact, Bill served as the honorary chairman of the U.S. committee that worked unsuccessfully to win the right to host the 2022 World Cup while Qatar, its organizing committee and the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) donated between $1.3 million and $5.55 million to the…

  • The Real Threat to National Security

    The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s injunction ordering a complete stop to President Obama’s executive order providing amnesty to illegal aliens already in the U.S. The order also puts a stop to ‘delayed deportation,’ saying wasn’t an executive order by Obama, but rather memorandum issued by Department of Homeland…

  • Demilitarization and State Rights

    “We need the Justice Department to step in and take over policing in this country. In the 20th century, they had to fight states’ rights in, to get the right to vote,” Al Sharpton recently said “We’re going to have to fight states’ rights in terms of closing down police cases.” This isn’t the first…

  • Worse Than Watergate

    The first claim was that the U.S. was in Libya to conduct diplomatic efforts as a result of the Arab Spring which ousted the Qaddafi government at the time. While true, it’s now known that the Obama administration was also there to speed up the secret shipping of arms and munitions to anti-Assad rebels in Syria.…

  • California’s Man-made Drought

    Climate change is “damn serious,” according to California Governor Jerry Brown, who has repeatedly blamed it for the state’s four-year drought, despite a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report released in December 2014, that found computer models of global warming show increased winter rains. They concluded a La Nina weather pattern was the primary driver…

  • Life Lesson #20

    Stop wasting time explaining yourself to others. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it anyway. Just do what you know in your heart is right.