In a recent email update from George Friedman of Stratfor, he discusses the recent economic crisis in Greece as a manifestation of the inherent weakness of the experiment we know as the European Union: The European experiment originated as a recoil from the ultranationalism of the first half of the 20th century. It was intended [...]

The following quote is from my friend Jake, and it comes from a discussion that we were having on Facebook.  If you haven’t become my friend yet on FB, maybe I will accept your request. Anyway, Here is the quote: The fact of the matter is that the immigration “problem” is a direct result of [...]

Barack Obama gave future presidential hopefuls a clinic last fall on how to run for president.  You begin by writing a memoir about yourself.  Some might say that a memoir is something that is written after you have accomplished something, but Obama has proven that this genre can be bent to be used for the [...]

  Paul Krugman, in his most recent column in the New York Times, has become yet one more liberal participating in the project of denouncing those who are protesting the policies of Barack Obama.  To see liberals reach for their guns of derision so quickly to shoot down the form of protest that they invented [...]

The Iberian Peninsula: the edge of the earth at least 500 years ago when the world was flat. People came to Iberia to be in the sun and the water that             Sticks to the air   They could gaze at the ocean or the hills at their back, And build cities or boats to [...]

The last time that Mormons were kicked out of the country for community organizing was back in the 1840s.  While historians can probably identify many causes for which Mormons were forced to leave the country, perhaps one of the most notable reasons was because their settlement, Nauvoo, on the Illinois bank of the Mississippi river [...]

Jake has been urging me to answer whether I believe there is something to the data saying that there are trends indicating the presence of climate change or if this is all just a big liberal conspiracy.  to clearly answer this question for him, I would have to say that I believe that the scientific [...]

Recently there was a story on the front page of Yahoo about the 31 year old in charge of dismantling G.M.  Where I have been quick to criticize Obama in many ways, I actually see this as a good thing.  The article was headlined to make me think “What, he is replacing experienced CEOs with grad [...]

  It is probably time for us to all revisit junior high and break out a copy of George Orwell’s Animal Farm.  I couldn’t help but think of the basic outline of the Animal Farm plot the more that I learn the details of what Obama is doing to the auto industry in America.  The forced [...]

If you are going to read a book this year by someone whose last name is Friedman, you will probably narrow your list to two choices: The World is Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman or The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman I am normally a fan [...]