Monthly Archives: July 2015

There will be a lot of potential first-time voters in 2016. Young people who were born in 1998. Many of them will not vote, of course, (especially the men) because when you are an 18 year old male your primary … Continue reading →

I read an interesting study the other day. A group of normally healthy young people were told that the doctors wanted to see how steroids affected performance. So they were instructed to follow a body building program for six weeks, … Continue reading →

Think of all the invectives the Republican candidates have thrown at Donald Trump. He’s a clown, he’s not to be taken seriously, he is a showboat, he’s a circus act, he is just in it for publicity, and on and … Continue reading →

President Obama has commanded HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development) to make sure that every zip code in the country has 50% minority housing. Like all liberal ideas of social engineering, this one will have unintended consequences. For instance, … Continue reading →

I saw something today, while driving on the ill-named Jimmy Carter Boulevard (well, it’s true that it’s turned out that he was NOT the worst President of all time), that speaks to the level which our Atlanta has sunk. It … Continue reading →

The New York Times Mr. Nat Cohn says, “It is tempting to attribute Mr. Trump’s surge to something more than media coverage, to assume that his positions must have unusual resonance with Republican voters, or to infer that Republicans are … Continue reading →

Is Donald Trump crazy? He must be. He’s the only republican candidate who mentions that illegal Mexicans are streaming across our southern border. And he says that many of them are “rapists and thugs.” Well, that’s just crazy talk, isn’t … Continue reading →

The conversation usually starts like this, on an afternoon after I’ve helped an acquaintance do a particularly sweaty job on a hot afternoon: “Come on in. Cool off, we’ll have a beer.” he says. “I’ll just have a diet Coke, … Continue reading →

There is a park a few miles from my home where I go to walk with some regularity. Even with my broken back I can walk a mile in about 20 minutes, then I take a 5 minute rest and … Continue reading →

As thousands of politicians rush like Lemmings to erase any semblance of the Confederacy, somebody should tell them to slow down and learn a little American history. Children, from kindergarten to college graduation, are taught that the Civil War was … Continue reading →