Major breaking news! This is a very, very big deal on multiple levels. This is a great day for progressives, which in one way is a terrible condemnation of where America is at today. It should be a great day for every American regardless of political stripe. The Supreme Court Read more…
Warning! If you read my blog here you know that I have become a gun owner. I am finding that the interest I have had in them throughout my life is back and I am getting an amazing amount of enjoyment shooting and have made amazing progress in my abilities Read more…
I need to prepare you. I may lose some of you on this one, but I’m coming clean, because I have started a journey that has been incredibly revealing and not just a little unsettling. I’m a gun owner. I’m going to tell you why I decided to buy one Read more…
I’m trying to start this post and am having a tough time. I don’t know where to start, what outrage needs to be highlighted. To use the word outrage seems too benign as I type it, not suggestive of the mortal attacks on what was once thought of as simple Read more…
Let me first apologize to my dozen or so regular readers for my extended absence. It may continue as I think I am going to be drafted back into employment very soon whether I’m ready or not, but we’ll see. If the consequences weren’t so unbearably tragic, these recent days Read more…
Being on Facebook right now is surreal. Hundred plus year old monuments to a defeated nation are coming down, monuments that stood like a deified smirk directed to the people of color that had to share their hometown with overlords. People that fought and sometimes died to defend an economy Read more…
The polls are cratering for the President. One shows his approval rating under 40% and his disapproval up to 57%. His numbers versus Joe Biden average him behind by 8%. They are dropping in concert with his response to the people protesting centuries of repression and an apparent disregard for Read more…
I live in Henrico County which wraps around the city of Richmond, VA to the north and west. I live west of the city. A pretty small media market nationally in spite of being the capital for the state. What has happened here has not had much in the way Read more…
Federal forces have been removed from D.C. President Donald Trump tweeted that they were withdrawn but could return in an instant if necessary. He suggested that their job was done, that the number of protesters had dwindled and the violence stopped, that they had squashed the rebellion. As is typical Read more…
Yesterday I spoke about lines having been drawn. In Washington, D.C. on Friday, they were painted. Open warfare has broken out in the nation’s capital, not on the streets but between the White House and Mayor Muriel Bowser. She has led the effort to keep that from spilling into actual Read more…