Why Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) says that Congress is corrupt
What this 60 Minutes CBS show featuring retiring U.S. Senator Tom Coburn. In a single sentence he says why our...
Year: 2014
Why Russia may finally invade Ukraine
President Putin, a KGB veteran, has a problem. A large part of the Russian Federation's budget is from oil and...
Why do the police need heavy machine guns and silencers?
I was somewhat disturbed with a NBC Nightly News report that the Department of Defense is providing local police forces...
My secret, almost, trip to North Korea
As I was sixty-four when I ran for Congress, I was keenly aware that if I wanted to represent the...
If you think that Congress makes laws, you’re wrong
If you think that congressmen and women go to Washington, vote on bills in the House and Senate, and the...
How to tell when a president lies
When President Obama gave a speech about how he would handle the unfolding scandal of the NSA spying revelations and...
Free and fair elections
I read an article giving reasons why people should vote today and read There are millions of people worldwide who’d...
My hidden agenda
I was on a radio talk show in Chicago a few days ago. One of the two hosts was aggressively...
Why have runoff elections?
In Georgia, the election system is straightforward. If several people in the same party run for the same seat, in...
