NRA Statement on Designee for the Secretary of the Interior
Below you ‘ll find the NRA’s statement on Secretary Designate Zinke, who has been chosen to head the Department of the Interior under the Trump administration. Personally, I’m still forming my own...
View ArticlePolitical Roundup
As the new Congress gets moving and we approach the inauguration of the new president, I’m starting to see more and more rather interesting political news come across the wire. First, It would appear...
View ArticleQuestion
I woke up with some odd questions this morning: Are public state universities an agency of state government? If so, are they subject to equal protection and other Constitutional protections in the same...
View ArticleLive Blogging the Inauguration
10:06 – The President and Vice-President Elect have arrived at the White House. Mrs. Trump brought Mrs. Obama a small gift, which Mrs. Obama looked at is if it were covered in dog slime. 10:11 – Is it...
View ArticleThings That Work Versus Things That Don’t
In the last year or so, we’ve seen a lot of political posturing, blustering, and, let’s be honest, whining from both sides. Personally, I’m sick of all of it, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to...
View ArticleYou Say You Want A Revolution
Since about this time last year, the vitriol and bile in American politics has gone from a low simmer to just short of a boil. On one side, we have celebrities on social media and crowds in the...
View ArticleLegislation Suggestions
Since the political time of crazy doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon, I thought I’d take a few minutes to suggest some things that might not stop the madness, but will at least move it in a...
View ArticleCouldn’t have said it better myself
Over at The Antisoma, Heroditus Huxley explains her view of compassion, and who deserves it. Like the title says, I couldn’t have said it better myself. Look, I’m a pretty soft touch, all things...
View ArticleRumblings
In these times of strife and ugliness, remember, folks: The guy in your group who wants you to blow up a building or steal weapons is probably a fed. With the rush to destroy any public commemoration...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal
Recently, it came to light that about half of the Agriculture Department employees who have been tapped to relocate from the Washington, DC, area to Kansas City have either refused to move or have not...
View ArticleMusings
I’m not sure what’s wrong with America’s youth. I left a bowl containing five pounds of assorted chocolate bars on a stool at the end of my drive for trick or treaters when I left this evening. Maybe...
View ArticlePolitical Rumblings
I’ve been mulling a few things over and it’s time to get them so they’ll stop ricocheting around inside my skull. President Trump is almost certain to be impeached, but will almost certainly be...
View ArticleRumblings
As our nation, and the world around it, weathers the COVID19 epidemic, there is something important that we all need to keep in mind. This is, of course, in addition to the necessity of doing our parts...
View ArticlePolitical Rumblings
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. – Wesley, The Princess Bride Like a lot of folks, I had high hopes that this election would be done and gone by now. Months,...
View ArticleMore Political Rumblings
So, now that I’ve devoted a few hundred words to whine about how politics is shaking out, let’s talk about how this could all go and what we can do about it. Biden Wins, Trump Concedes Let’s say that...
View ArticleMacBiden
Is this a ballot which I see before me, The paper toward my hand? Come, let me change thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal ambition, sensible To feeling as to sight? or...
View ArticleMacBiden IV
MACBIDEN Wherefore was that cry? PELOSI The republic, my lord, is dead. MACBETH She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and… something,...
View ArticleLetters to Congress
Below is the text of the messages I have sent to my Senators and Congressman. If you have any opinion about the upcoming events in Congress and our country, please reach out to your own Senators and...
View ArticleResponse from my Congressman
I received this in response to my message from the other day. Dear Mr. Bear,Thank you for contacting me with your concerns regarding irregularities and alleged fraud in the presidential election. I...
View ArticleMusings
So, Joe Biden and wasshername are going to be in the White House here in a couple of weeks. Guess we’ll just have to see how bad it can get. I’m not hopeless, but I’m not exactly hopeful either....
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