With retailers advertising Christmas sales earlier and earlier each year it seems as if Thanksgiving is getting lost in the shuffle. There was a time when Thanksgiving was treated more as a day of remembrance than just a day off giving people an opportunity to plan on how and where they were going to shop on the following morning. ...more

November 20, 2009

A recent column by Leonard Pitts was scurrilous to say the least. Objecting to a slew of blogs on the Internet he asks, "What about Muslim-Americans who fight for us?" "At this writing" he says of the Fort Hood massacre, "we know next to nothing." ...more

November 20, 2009

We The People have allowed a small group of radicals to hijack the reins of our government. ...more

November 19, 2009

As America debates whether to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan, in the ninth year of a war for ends we cannot discern, a riveting new history recalls times when Americans fought for vital national interests. ...more

November 16, 2009

Political correctness The price for being politically correct is killing us. You know you just might be a redneck if you have rebel flag waving from the back of your pickup truck and a bumper sticker proclaiming, "The South Will Rise Again. ...more

November 15, 2009

The Fort Hood massacre was a real shocker, but the greater shock was the fact that the powers that be, as it has been disclosed, were aware of this individual, his Islamic connections and his pronouncements against America. Yet nothing was done because "he didn't look like a terrorist." What a ridiculous statement. ...more

November 14, 2009

After reading about the shootings at Fort Hood, my concerns about the security of this country cranked up a notch or two. This Hassan character that did the shooting and others like him is what worries me. First of all the story reported that he did his internship at Walter Reed Hospital, where he received poor performance evaluations. Then shortly after he was promoted to major. Promoted, after poor performance evaluation? Something is wrong here. I'd like to have a talk with that brain dead idiot who recommended him for promotion. ...more

November 12, 2009

The real killers at Fort Hood in Texas are political correctness, affirmative action and the cult of diversity. If the gunman was of any other religion other than Muslim, he would not have been in a position to do what he did. ...more

November 10, 2009

There are so many disturbing things going on that it is difficult to choose what to tackle next. It's no wonder so many books are being written to try to educate the public. ...more

November 5, 2009

Before political correctness we had colorful names for people in our fairly ethnically diverse school and neighborhood, most of which I can't even mention in this column. ...more

October 24, 2009