Posted inColumns
Ranger Rick: Global warming, climate change… whatever!
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State…
Posted inColumns
Monday Moanin’: So what is it that we are all so afraid of?
By Jeff Salisbury jeffsalisbury@charter.net What are we all so afraid of? “I'm not afraid To take a stand Everybody Come take my hand We'll walk this road together, through the…
Posted inColumns
The Muck Starts Here: We should have let the South secede
by Barry Hastings An idiot who summers near me drives a big, noisy, older pickup, with all the trimmings, including a very large Confederate Battle Flag (still popular with red-necks…
Posted inColumns
Let’s retire runner-up sign and brag only about being No. 1
“It ain’t braggin’ if it’s true. Muhammed Ali said that. Back when he was a young man. Back when he was Cassius Clay. Before he had too many fights and…
Posted inColumns
Ranger Rick: No gun permits, but lots of shootings in Chicago
"Governments that set out to regiment their people with the stated objective of providing security and liberty have ended up losing both. Those which put freedom as the first priority…
Posted inColumns
Democracy Tree: Wisconsin makes even Michigan look good
Just as Michigan’s new and improved Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) law kicks into effect this month, making it easier and less expensive for its citizens to discover what public…
Posted inColumns
The Muck Starts Here: This and that and the other
If you take a careful look at the United States Constitution, you'll soon see there's nothing there allowing wishes of the religious fringes to over-ride rights of any others, despite…
Posted inColumns
Monday Moanin’: What you think about college may not be so
By Jeff Salisbury jeffsalisbury@charter.net Stereotypically the American college student leaves high school and home at about age 18, moves onto a college campus for the next four years. But in…
Posted inColumns
Yes It Is, It’s True: Let’s separate Facebook wheat from chaff
“All of your children are poor unfortunate victims of lies you believe — a plague upon your ignorance.” — Frank Zappa Facebook is often depressing because too many post racist,…
Posted inColumns
Army Bob: Media too often crosses the line on truth, fairness
Columnist and television news commentator George Will once said when discussing the power of television and the influence on the American public opinion and having an image of death and…