Some on the left think Obama is evil because he kills and terrorizes innocent civilians with drones.  Some on the Buchanan right think Romney is evil for wanting to arm Syrian rebels while the neocons say Obama is evil because he won’t arm the Syrians.  The left has been painting a damning caricature of Romney for [...]

A sickly, self-hating guilt has become the civil religion of the Western world.  This viewpoint has been gradually, unwittingly accepted by a broad spectrum of well-meaning people. Without any conscious choice, many are stumbling blindly along a path of misery.  Just after Easter of of 2011, we were all given a striking example of where [...]

Being a good politician is not so different  from any Manhattan cocktail party, corporate meeting, baboon fight, or any other test for dominance.   We use the tools we have to beat our opponents.  Of course a black politician will use his race to win.  Just as white politicians would use theirs if he helped them. [...]

August in Arkansas.  If you’ve ever experienced it you don’t want to again.   Kinda like having an out-of-touch President. But it might be useful.  Just as hard exercise hurts but may be useful.  But only if you use the experience wisely. An Arkansas August can help you appreciate the North, but won’t help those [...]

A landslide of Missourians say the federal government should not force us to buy anything. Right now they’re trying to force us to buy health insurance, but what will it be next? Maybe we should all have to buy a copy of our adored leader’s biography.  It would probably do us good.  Or maybe we [...]

No.   Yet, you’d think it was if you live in America.  I’m so glad I’m headed for Tajikistan where they don’t yell racism whenever they lose.  It’s sad when you have to go to the former Soviet Union to escape group-think. When the Ten Commandments were written, racism was not in the top ten.  In [...]

Six months ago an earthquake flattened Haiti.  Today the country is still in ruins.  Why?  The answer is simple, but “mokita.”  Mokita is a word from New Guinea which means “a truth everyone knows but no one will talk about.” The mokita about Haiti is that Haiti does not produce good leaders.  Some Haitians put [...]

Why do so many try to prove Obama is weak, ineffective, out-of-touch, mendacious, even anti-American?  Many of his supporters won’t be convinced.  To them, he’s a phenomenon who will straighten out all that is wrong with America.  I hope he is, but he seems more like an epiphenomenon. In other words, he’s a side effect [...]

Incumbent Blanche Lincoln’s (D-AR) win in the 2010 primary elections surprised the political elite.   They were similarly perplexed in 2008 when Arkansas and other states voted against Obama and still voted for Democrats to nearly every other political office.  How can deep-red Arkansas support an incumbent Democrat like Blanche? Arkansas and adjacent regions have long bewildered [...]

Red White and Blue States A future for America beyond Democrat and Republican You might have noticed a map generated by the New York Times after the 2008 Obama election. It shows the counties where more people voted for McCain than voted for Bush in 2004. These counties include most of rural Tennessee and Arkansas [...]