I've heard a lot this political season about not wasting your vote by voting for a 3rd party. That if you vote your conscience that you're condemning America to four years of Clinton or Trump. They are, it is said, the only two real choices in this election. To some degree or another, that's correct. The next chief executive will likely be chosen from one of the two dominant political parties in our country. It has always been that way and...
The year was 1980. I was all of 6 years old. I asked my dad if he was going to vote for Jimmy Carter to be re-elected. He asked me why he would do that, and I responded that "things didn't seem to be going too bad" for our country. Ah! The innocence of youth! Dad quickly gave me my first crash-course in economics. There were other things going on then, too, but I wasn't paying attention. I did, however, get an eye full of the posters (with a...
There is a quote from {title} that came to mind when I read the recent story about the language guide put out by the University of New Hampshire: "Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly...
So, The Word I am hearing is that John McCain is somehow an idiot for taking issue with Barak Obama’s insistence that we need to properly inflate our tires and get tune-ups to save as much gasoline as “all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling.” {publisher} follows up the ridicule with a piece by the Director of Communications for the Auto Alliance which has been characterized as confirming Obama’s view of things....
Douglas Wallace claims that a woman cannot be President. His reasoning? Douglas Wallace, 80, contends that because the U.S. Constitution relies on the pronouns “he” and “his” in describing the duties of the president, no woman can hold the office. Wallace argues the constitution would have to be amended to specifically allow a female president and accused Clinton of trying to make an “end run around the Constitution.” Legal scholars...