I didn’t write these words, but I wish I had: I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas. It […]

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Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war: neither in Russia, nor in […]

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There was a sad and remarkable juxtaposition of news articles on the web Friday. I saw the same thing on many news websites but the San Francisco Gate (sfgate.com), probably intentionally, put these two articles back to back: (05-28) 09:06 PDT BALTIMORE (AP) — Two young relatives were arrested in the deaths of three children […]

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This blog has a small number of readers ranging from a low of about 80 to a high of about 125 per day and an even smaller number of commenters. In other words, it cannot be said that this is a very influential blog. It provides, however, a microcosmic view of what’s going on in […]

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In the very near future (measured in months, not years) you’ll be able to make long distance calls anywhere in the world using your high speed internet connection with the same quality as you have now with a regular telephone. There is a recent technology called VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) that converts your voice […]

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Elsewhere, in comments to several other posts, a gNat-driven debate has periodically raged about “Liberals” — which gNat says are “Democrats” even if many, like me, aren’t Democrats (and even though gNat has been repeatedly told that I’m not a Democrat) — “hating” the President. Mark King has noted that “[Conservatives] knew they couldn’t argue […]

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Mark King recently pointed me to an article on Salon that definitely requires a good look-see. There’s no time for me to write extensive commentary on my lunch break here, but the following exchange during a Q&A with the former Commander of CENTCOM (Central Command, responsible for the Middle East) was too funny not to […]

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I thought it was time for something humorous. I found this postcard at an antique store about 15 or 20 years ago. I’m not sure what the original intent of the card was for. Was it really to sell soap? Hmmm…

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There have been just SO many different and creative ways to let the world know of your political preference that you would think everything has been tried at least once. That’s before you meet The Axis of Eve.

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Occasionally, people say to me, “Why would you want to be a defense attorney?” There’s a kind of ambivalence — which I share with them — over the idea of “protecting child molesters and murderers.”

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