Random Thoughts
Government really is a necessary evil but I think there are people who have forgotten, or in some cases never taught, that government is an evil. You’ll hear people that think guns are evil, or that cars are evil or that drugs are evil. The reality is that they are just objects and are not [...]
The expansion of government has produced a side affect. Government workers convinced the public and the Congress that government workers should not be subject to the political ebb and flow that surrounds new government officials being voted in and turning over entire administrations. They used the excuse that political lackeys would be used to fill [...]
It has happened again. An American living abroad has been killed by Islamic militants attempting to forward their agenda. Along with the rest of America, and I should hope, the rest of the world, I extend my deepest sympathies to Paul Johnson’s family and friends. The militants of Al Qaeda have taken the life of [...]
Yesterday I was looking at the Gallup Polls. They had a headline stating that the military has the highest confidence rating of the institutions that they poll for. I like the military so I kept reading. What I found was less than inspiring. Other top rated institutions included the presidency and the Supreme Court. Well [...]
I hope that more people have captured the irony of Dubyah’s eulogy of Ronald Reagan. In his remarks Bush the Younger implied that he admired Ron Reagan for his belief that government is the enemy. That takes some serious chutzpah! This is a man that let Ted “what happened to the effin girl?” Kennedy write [...]
As there always is in the world, there must be a start. This is it.
