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 upheld the law of the land. In strong bi-partisan decisions the court unequivocally made clear that the President is not above the law. State courts 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 in a very short period of time. My last post was explaining the motivation for my return to the realm of gun ownership. What I 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 and what I discovered in the process that has made me feel that it is a very justifiable position. Let me start out by saying 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 humanity, jettisoned for what is clearly a more compelling agenda. America has a choice to make. The legitimate if flawed attempt to have a government 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 would be comical. Satirists would know they were on dangerous ground, at risk of being so ridiculous the point would be lost and their readers 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 built on the ownership of humans rode daunting steeds forty feet above them, riding like gods across the sky, unshakable, defiant even now. Still proud. 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 the Covid-19 pandemic. What would the President do to stop the emigration from his support, the sudden exodus that had him hopping mad, so mad 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 of national attention. No real reason for it to. It’s no different anywhere else. But this was the capital of a briefly held nation also. 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 of collisions of Trump and Twitter, it was mostly untrue. The Feds were gone, but the protesters weren’t, and the mayor of D.C. had made 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 confrontations on the streets, but she may have abandoned that as a strategy. At the very least she upped the ante in a very large Read more…