It has often been said that 9/11 changed everything. Really? Everything? Changed? Not everything changed – our federal government still spends more money than it takes in, still passes unconstitutional laws, still meddles in private business transactions, still mandates the use of a depreciating currency.
What has changed is the American people’s concern about their individual rights. We’ve seen nothing but assault after assault on liberty since that fateful day in 2001. The Patriot Act, passed shortly after the terrorist attack, was the first nail in the coffin that …

Because I believe in the 1st amendment, I believe all ideas and words are up for discussion. That is what free speech (and thought) actually is. I bring this up because a group of midgets have decided they want the word midget banned from public airwaves. They find the word offensive. Problem? I don’t, so now what? To be a group that suddenly decides a word is offensive makes that group more important than everyone else, and more important than free speech. Because I am such an advocate for …

Today on my regular morning segment on Fox and friends I debated a college professor who postulated a premise that Santa in the song “Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer “ was a bully and the song encourages bullying, conformity, sexism, mocking, hypocrisy, exclusion, rejection and favoritism.
As my readers know I have been on a campaign to eliminate political correctness from our culture for years. This debate illustrates not only why I hate it but just how idiotically insidious it actually is.
We now have college professors teaching American kids that it …

John Denver is famous for singing about the serene beauty of the Rocky Mountains. Having lived near sea level most of my life, the Rocky Mountains mean that I’m gasping for breath after climbing a single flight of stairs. I experienced a completely different kind of high during my recent visit to Colorado. I achieved a Liberty high while traveling through Colorado’s District 3 this November.
Tisha Casida is running for Congress in Colorado, and she invited me to teach a series of classes on the Bill of Rights in an …

This is Thanksgiving week and I think it is important that we seek to give thanks not just for the obvious but also for the mundane and overlooked in our lives. Books, for example, are a vanishing item in our Internet new world. Ask a kid under 12 what is the latest book he has read and you’ll get an inquisitive stare and a mumbled “books? Oh yeah I read about books on the Internet.”
Books are always there to be read and re-read never losing their information and just patiently …

I write this on a Monday, which makes me wonder how many of us actually know the meanings of the days of the week?
Monday is an ancient Gallic word Mun-dean where we get the word “mundane”. Monday being the start of the workweek is dreaded and a reminder of the beginning of another difficult struggle to survive. We associate Monday with “blue” and drudgery hence the name.
Tues is an Anglo-Saxon word deucedey or two (where we modernized to “Tues”-day. It represents the second day of the week or a double …

Last night was Halloween. For those of you unfamiliar with the holiday it’s a beautiful time of year where small children are encouraged to pretend to be someone else and come to the homes of strangers and ask for candy.
Ironically the other 364 days of the year we spend telling children NOT to take candy from strangers, especially ones that have a corpse or bloody appendages on their front porch
Hey it’s never too early to prepare kids for the phenomenon of mixed messages and confusion to all things adult …

“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac”. Those of us old enough to remember Henry Kissinger recognize this as one of his more famous quotes. Our day to day lives offer numerous examples of this being true. Nearly every contact you have with someone from the government is an exercise in civility to someone who barely deserves it.
One minor, personal example. I arrived at the Post Office an hour before closing, expecting to stand in a long line waiting to mail my package. As I arrived at the door I thought the …

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” -Mark Twain

This excerpt from CBS Philly:
Vandals Hit Governor Corbett’s Mansion in Harrisburg
By CBS Philadelphia | Local Philadelphia – Wed, Oct 26, 2011
Police are searching for the vandals who targeted the mansion of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett in Harrisburg.
The word “WOLF PAC” was spray-painted on the perimeter wall of the residence. And below that, the …

At the time that I am writing this article there is a mother in Denver, Colorado who is trying to get her seven year old son, Bobby Montoya, into the Girl Scouts. Apparently the mother took little Bobby (who plays with dolls and dresses in girls clothing) down to a Girl Scouts troop leader and tried to sign him up (as if this is a normal thing to do) and was baffled when the troop leader said, ‘No, it doesn’t matter how he looks; he has boy parts, he can’t …