James Thunder
Last month some women started a new front in their long war on men, women and children, a war with so many victims killed — and disabled in soul and body. And they lost. On February 17, Virginia state Senator Stephen…
The Arizona bill (SB1062/HB2153) was vetoed, killed, by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on February 26, playing the role of Brutus. Dear readers, fellow Americans, I write to bury it, not to praise it. In her statement vetoing the bill, Governor…
It would be interesting to know if I am wrong in my assumption that most Americans know the story of Helen Keller (1880-1968). My assumption would be wrong if you are reading her story here for the first time. While…
Before World War II, college football did not allow free substitution of players. So, players played on both defense and offense. During World War II, with the best players in the armed services, the football rules were altered to allow…
The Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified one hundred years ago in 1913. It stated simply: “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States,…
President Obama spoke in three college towns last week: Ames, Iowa, Fort Collins, Colorado, and Charlottesville, Virginia,. In his nomination acceptance speech, Congressman Paul Ryan described the recent college graduate, unemployed, living at home, looking at the faded poster of…
The recent news was stunning: Twenty years after the United Nation’s Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, a planned international environmental summit planned for June 20-22, dubbed Rio+20, was in disarray because there were only 33,000 hotel…
In a front page article in today’s Washington Times, the headline reads, “GOP on Losing Side of Birth Control — 30% of Party Back Obama’s Stance.” The Washington Times is now working with Mr. John Zogby’s polling firm, JZ Analytics,…
In a front page article in today’s Washington Times, the headline reads, “GOP on Losing Side of Birth Control — 30% of Party Back Obama’s Stance.” The Washington Times is now working with Mr. John Zogby’s polling firm, JZ Analytics,…
Okay, okay, I get it. President Obama went to Osawatomie, Kansas (population 4500), on December 6, to give a speech to channel a populist speech given by Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) in the same town in 1910. But why did Roosevelt…
