“From the motif in westerns where the wind blows tumbleweeds through the scene, usually to establish that the place is desolate or empty…a period of dead air or stony, unresponsive silence,” explains Wikipedia about a ‘tumbleweed moment.’ Documents have surfaced from October 2010 about a meeting between Lois Lerner, the Department of Justice and the…

Between 4 p.m. Thursday, July 3, and 3:30 a.m. Monday, July 5, 82 people were shot on the streets of Chicago, with 14 dying. Even with a 30-percent increase in the number of police on the streets gun violence was out of hand, with one illegal handgun being confiscated per hour across the city during…

“For six years the brainiacs at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union have devised one bailout and debt restructuring scheme after another,” writes the Washington Time’s Stephen Moore. “None of them have worked.” Let’s try and make sense of what’s happening in Greece and how it’ll affect the U.S. Greece’s crisis began…

The man arrested for killing Kathryn Steinle, who was out for a stroll with her father along Pier 14 in San Francisco, is an illegal alien from Mexico who had been deported five times. San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said Francisco Sanchez was arrested and has admitted to the woman’s murder. ICE records show…

Though illegal in Nevada, it began about an hour after sundown, with a few “Lady Finger” firecrackers. The pop-pop-pop was slight and didn’t bother the dogs at all. Soon the M-80’s burst onto the scene, literally. The multiple loud concussions caused the animals to nervously pace up and down the hallway. Then it grew quite,…

It’s been nearly three decades now since I was warned by my friend and mentor, Paul Steward (now passed) that I should be careful that I didn’t get so involved with technology that I forget to go outside and use my imagination. And to think that was long before today’s Internet, truly personal computers, smart-phones…

The journal ‘Science’ published a report in May 2015 after “analyzing how 10.1 million of the most partisan American users on Facebook,” saying researchers found people’s networks of friends and the stories they see lean toward their ideological preferences. Then last month, the U.S. Supreme Court decreed homosexual marriage to be constitutional across all 50…

Speaking about the White House being lit up with gay-rainbow lights to celebrate the recent ruling on homosexual marriage, Reverend Franklin Graham said it was “outrageous” and a “slap in the face” to Americans who support traditional marriage. “God is the one who gave the rainbow, and it was associated with His judgment,” Graham explained.…

Congratulations to the homosexual community for its same-sex marriage victory. But instead of equality and justice, the U.S Supreme Court has now mandated the polar opposite. If anyone speak their views in public, they risk losing their jobs, persecution and marginalization as Justice Samuel Alito writes: “I assume that those who cling to old beliefs…

“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville. And he’s correct as the era of constitutional government is over. The U.S. has developed a post-constitutional culture where independent citizens are dependents, relying on the government for their needs. In this, Congress has…