David Brooks is one of those opinion writers who is hit or miss for me. There have been recent columns when he really nails it, yet on so many others he crashed and burned miserably, caught in the contradictory tornado...
Jason Everett Miller
Now that the esteemed Senator Ted Kennedy has been laid to rest next to his brothers in Arlington Cemetery, I feel compelled to comment on why I see his legacy as a reflection of what is most wrong with our...
the lion, the witch and the wardrobe
Rather than continuing to defend a fellow citizen's right to have an opinion contrary to my own made before an audience of his peers without being made to suffer for it, I am going to try and explain my evolution...
the whole story on whole foods
52 Who should King Barack Hussein Obama go after when we are done gutting private health insurance companies and turning their mostly middle class employees out on to American streets?How about pharmaceutical companies or those evil government contractors? Why not the...
Long Live The King
I was listening to the radio the other day and heard a story on the Cash for Clunkers program being pushed by the Obama administration as a green initiative. Here are important details from that story that don't seem...
toys for tots
With the debate now raging over health care reform, mostly around the current inadequate-to-our-real-needs-but-still-super-expensive legislation that is being considered by our dysfunctional Congress, I thought I would offer a quick aside that has yet to make it into the dialogue...
children of the corn
I recently found a movie on Netflix that I had never seen before. Sean Penn narrates a devastating critique of America's war footing since the end of World War II. The film tackles one of our most detrimental myths by...
peace sells but who’s buying
A twelve-year-old getting liposuction is the most revolting documentary sequence I have seen in quite some time. The scene was from a movie called Killer at Large: Why Obesity is America's Biggest Threat. I thought the film did a credible...