In a country raised on blood and reared on myth, the notion that we are victims of a shared illusionary reality seems clear to me. America only likes mirrors when we are forcing other regimes to look into them at...
We The People
29 One of my favorite quotes from Thomas Paine's Common Sense involves the notion of societal blessings weighed against the necessary evil of government to deliver those ends. Yet what happens when government becomes antithetical, or in our case inimical, to the...
Bread and Circus
There seems to be a lot of emphasis on party lines this year from the democratic side of the house. I hear a lot of words used interchangably that are perhaps an oversimplification of the voting public this year. Liberal...
It’s My Party
When a Navy vessel is under attack or suffers a catastrophic emergency the ship's captain declares general quarters. Without a second thought, thousands of individuals (conservatives and liberals) drop everything they are doing and come together as one cohesive unit...
General Quarters, General Quarters – All Hands On Deck
Flying back from my uncle's wedding in Oregon, I was sitting next to a towering 70-year-old former school teacher and superintendent whom I'll call Mr. Montana. He mostly ignored me while I read my book during the first half of...