America Is A Fairytale
I am disenfranchised. The very idea of America is becoming a fairytale. We are being asked to take things on “faith” when the facts are in direct opposition to it. My twins used to…
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Reparations
The present debate concerning reparations for slavery has hit the expected wall. “It would be wrong to single out one race of people over the rest, when so many groups have suffered,” is the present…
What Thoughts Matter?
When I first spotted this ad, I was predictably insensitive to it, but then, because I am consistently on the fence when it comes to what freedom of speech truly means in a melting pot,…
Meet Paul Krekorian
Today on local radio station KNX Los Angeles City council president was talking tough about “changing the rules” related to the public’s ability to use first amendment rights, to protest the very existence of their…
Street vendors
Another bonehead move by Los Angeles mayor and pandering chief executive, Eric Garcetti, was to allow vendors to set up shop anywhere they find a slot on the street. I don’t want to cause them…
Who Was Franz Ferdinand?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was born in 1863 in Austria. In 1900. While in power, he attempted to restore Austro-Russian relations while maintaining an alliance with Germany. In 1914, a Serb nationalist assassinated him. One month…
A House Divided
“A house divided against itself, cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall…
Defund The Police
Ultimately this scene will be deemed collateral damage and everybody except the victim’s family will go back to eating donuts and playing on their phones. We pay each officer good money for a…
Newsom’s Folly
A mandate? My grandmother was 1/2 native American. My wife’s mother is Indian. My daughters have blindly chosen black dolls, white dolls, male or female dolls, teddy bears, toy monkeys, toy helicopters and trucks. All…
HISTORICAL REFERENCE IS EVERYTHING.
I read an impassioned treatise by a trump supporter. She listed every elected or appointed official in the city of Chicago – from Lori Lightfoot on down, and indicated their race as being…