The figure in black drew closer with each step along East Sixth in Reno. In no time I could tell it was woman clad in a burqa. No one yelled at her, no one called her names or threatened her. And I was proud – this is America I told myself — the land of…

It’s been years since I was a U.S. Air Force Environmental Health Tech. And while there are new ways being employed to halt infections, the nature of contracting a disease hasn’t changed. Ingestion, inhalation and injection are for any vector-borne disease the gateway into the human body. However those charged with the care of an Ebola infected…

The dictionary defines ‘war,’ as: armed fighting between nations; state of hostility or conflict; struggle between opposing forces or for a particular end. But it seems the meaning is being changed and it’s being done so that it fits the needs of the politically correct. They don’t want President Obama to be remembered as a…

The National Football League continues to tear itself apart from the inside-out. Another player is in trouble, accused of child abuse after whipping and leaving marks on his four-year-old son. It has also decided to employ three women to help the league deal with situations involving domestic abuse and other incidents deemed important to women.…

2000 Look upon shattered scapes, Through front room drapes, Fenced off neighborhood, Where sage once stood. Fence upon fence line the street As property line and boundary meet, No room for the jack rabbits’ run, Tops of roof block out the sun. Coyote yelps now hardly heard, Settlement progress is the word, Not the open…

ABC News report today is the first time President Obama, et. al., mentioned the name of the Khorason group – however six-days earlier on September 18th, 2014 — during an intelligence gathering in Washington, D.C., Director of National Intelligence James Clapper stated that “in terms of threat to the homeland, Khorasan may pose as much…

1996 Have you seen a real cowhand In Timbuktu, China, Lapland? Trail drives are for cattle, Like a horse wears a saddle. And this verse is the proof, That there isn’t a manhoof.

Stop trying to hold onto the past. You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.

A few years back there was a popular book series called, “Left Behind,” and now there is a new film starring Nicolas Cage. I however could never get into the series. In the books as well as in the television series that followed, cars crashed and airplanes fell from the skies as people disappeared. These…

Time and again politicians and the media claim moderate Islamists are not a part of the violent wing of the Islāmic extremist movement. Yet, they are jus’ as violent, however we neither hear nor see this as we have the beheading of Americans and Brits. Our supposed allies, the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia lops off…