Dale Netherton
He has written a book of poetry, had two novellas published,( both books are available on Amazon.com ), written and produced two poetry videos, created a poetry product for photographers, wrote a column for 7 years for a major Eastern Iowa newspaper and is a participant in the Ayn Rand Institute's Atlantis Legacy program.
Articles by Dale Netherton
November 15, 2009
The "Stimulus " has proven to be a failure in job creation and further government attempts to create jobs will ultimately fail.
October 15, 2009
This blog exposes an insidious attempt to by-pass open debate via a simple denial of what is being proposed.
September 12, 2009
The people are aroused by the politician's disregard for common sense, fiscal restraint and individual rights.
August 12, 2009
Price controls have crippled the health care industry and will ultimately destroy it.
August 04, 2009
Pragmatism is the order of the day for the Obama Administration which translates into a trial and error approach that has been found wanting.
July 10, 2009
America has a unique, defensible and proud past that far outshines any oversights it may have encountered. This is what our President should be accenting instead of finding and mentioning flaws that are mostly insignificant relative to our achievements.
July 03, 2009
America's best days are now behind her. The spirit of "can do" and the incentive and opportunities have been and are being methodically squashed under the thumbs of self destructive pirates posing as representatives of the American people.
June 14, 2009
The method of thinking by the Democrat's is based on the false notion that make believe is adequate for building a better world.
May 31, 2009
Justice is under assault with the introduction and emphasis on inequality via racism and empathy as a partner in judicial jurisdiction. This essay examines how these two anti-justice concepts are undercutting a founding principle of he nation.
May 15, 2009
The ingredient for any jobs can be traced to profit. It is this lack of recognition of the importance of profit that is slowly destroying this most important component of progress, employment and civility.
May 03, 2009
Decisions are what governs our actions and priorities drive our decisions. Examination and clarification of our priorities is a must if rational action is to be the result.
April 24, 2009
The Republican Party has no way to reinvent itself. It has crushed its component of trust by defying its central tenet in favor of pursuing power. This is analogous to the course of present day Democrats. It needs to fade away and make room for a new party that can put government back in its appropriate place.
April 20, 2009
The movie on Natalee Holloway is reviewed from the standpoint of its accuracy and omissions.
April 16, 2009
The Declaration of Independence in its fullest meaning must be revived is America is to become the promise that the Founding Fathers initiated.
April 07, 2009
A controlled world economy is no more viable than a national controlled economy. The awareness that government is only a disruption to economic activity needs to be understood and raised to debunk these power dreamers intent on proving that disruption is somehow "good".
April 03, 2009
Nuclear disarmament is not a sensible option for the United Sates to even consider. The danger from covert ambitions of conquest cannot be averted with a "hope" that the ruthless are honorable.
April 01, 2009
We are turning the purpose of business on its head. We are rewarding by bailouts ( subsidies) the reverse of profits( losses).
March 29, 2009
The market operates at its optimum when the government doesn't interfere and disrupt the millions of transactions and calculations of buyers and sellers. It is this inability of the government to understand and operate under market motivations and the disruptions of political priorities that makes the case for a limited government that does not disrupt the economy.
March 24, 2009
The foundation of a civilized country is the rule of law and the sacredness of contracts. American is undergoing an assault on these institutions from power hungry politicians and their appointees operating under what they have determined is a national crisis that only they can resolve by obtaining more government power. This must be stopped if we are to retain a civilized country.
March 21, 2009
A controlled economy eliminates innovation and creativity by substituting subsidies, grants,taxes,regulations and handouts for the freedom to pursue personal visions, inventions and profits. A controlled economy ultimately controls the source of a vibrant and progressive economy , the individual spirit of personal ambition.
March 18, 2009
The environmentalists are ignoring the human method of survival and progress with their incessant nonsense about emissions and discharge which are integral components of the industrial processes that produce goods and services for human consumption. The priority is misplaced and requires a technological solution not a government mandate.
March 06, 2009
The profit motive can be destroyed by making profits not only a dirty word but actually attaining them practically impossible.
March 03, 2009
Nationalization of any industry is a poor move with disastrous consequences. It is deregulation and privatization that will restore America.
February 26, 2009
The government has advocated and implemented spending in both good times and bad as if it were a cure all. This propensity is what eventually will be recognized as the kind of limitation government must accept.
February 24, 2009
The notion of something being an "entitlement" has inevitable disastrous consequences and should be rejected as a possibility provided by the government.
February 21, 2009
The government does not and should not "do something". There is nothing it can do to make the economic situation better. The government is not a part of the economy and has a special limited function outside of the economy. What the market responds to is stability and freedom. This is not something the government can" buy".
February 17, 2009
The evil of socialism is the elimination of private business and the profit motive. This is the avenue that destroys individual rights , ambition and eventually civilization.
February 14, 2009
The amount of activity the government can mange has limits. To go beyond this with a policy of unrestrained financial recklessness will reveal the need for restraint of government involvement in the economy.
February 10, 2009
The question , "Where is the money coming from?' is a question that needs to be answered and analyzed for the source and repercussions of taking on such a huge pile of debt.
January 30, 2009
The government job creation program is favoring money chasers over the entrepreneur and will be a short term fix at best.
January 25, 2009
The U.S. Government is trying to foist another Ponzi scheme on the American taxpayer via a stimulus package.
January 11, 2009
The government is proposing to fix what it is incapable of fixing.
January 01, 2009
The same sex marriage controversy doesn't address the fundamental nature of contractual agreements and the recognition that marriage of any sort constitutes a contract.
December 30, 2008
Capitalism has been given a bum rap and deserves to bailed out from the misrepresentations it has endured.
December 19, 2008
The lack of credit is not the problem, but the lack of justification for credit spawned by poor decisions, a lack of focus on the need for profit and poor management more concerned with retaining the status quo than taking a tough stand.
December 05, 2008
The credit crunch began with the removal of credit card deductibility shifting that tax break to home home equity loans.
November 25, 2008
The truth of what happened to Natalee Holloway is unraveling from poor investigation techniques and assumptions that led nowhere.
October 31, 2008
Class warfare is now a major thrust of the Republican Party.
October 19, 2008
The revealing of Obama's socialist tendencies by the question of Joe the Plumber gave a glimpse of the meaning of "change" that Obama has preached .
October 12, 2008
The denouncing of Sarah Palin by popular columnists uncovers a vile envy.
October 04, 2008
The demise of capitalism was sounded with the bailout bill that took risk away from the private sector.
September 27, 2008
The advantages of a free market over a controlled economy have been exposed by current events.
September 20, 2008
The government has limited alternatives to fix an economy and both are found wanting.
September 11, 2008
A spoof on the conspiracy theorists plan to overtake the government.
September 04, 2008
Many movements and ideas have been improperly labelled to hide the real meaning of their implementation.
September 01, 2008
Pregnant women have all the rights of an individual which is being threatened by ignoring the status of her rights and assigning equal status to the unborn.
August 17, 2008
Oil is a valuable commodity with resilience in the marketplace.
August 06, 2008
The phrase , " We re winning" is insufficient in a war. The reality of victory is the only satisfactory solution to war.
July 20, 2008
The idea that the future can be the past or an undefined fantasy is flawed and the only message of the liberals and the conservatives.
July 05, 2008
A part of the mystery of the disappearance of the Natalee Holloway has not been explained. This article examines this component and offers an explanation of why it may have been so elusive.
July 06, 2008
A new game that requires golfing skills and boating skills.
July 02, 2008
Why was there a different approach and attitude displayed in the disappearance of Mr. Samuel Israel and Natalee Holloway?
June 26, 2008
The notion that the "environment' is somehow sacred above all other considerations is challenged and revealed.
June 22, 2008
Oil speculators have nothing to do with determining the price of oil.
June 19, 2008
The cost of healthcare will continue to rise as the government continues to regulate and control the industry.
June 14, 2008
What it's like when the river takes over your access to the outside world.
May 30, 2008
A member of Congress threatens the oil industry with nationalization. Commentary and observations regarding this event.
May 30, 2008
The establishment of governments has been the same for centuries. A reconsideration of how a government should be structured is overdue. This article covers the inevitable consequences of the past structural deficiencies and a proposal for a new approach.
May 11, 2008
There are lessons a mushroom hunter can teach a politician who runs a losing campaign.
May 07, 2008
Kooky movements like plants rights and animal rights have a common derivation from twisting the meaning of such valid concepts of individual rights applicable only to man.
April 28, 2008
The way politicians do "business' is a far cry from the normal way business is conducted.
April 23, 2008
An invitation to read the author's novellas, some future stories and contemplate some poetry.
April 22, 2008
The concept of Heaven is used to fool people they can achieve an afterlife experience via the method of unquestioning belief, i.e. faith.
April 07, 2008
This essay explores the role of conspiracy theories, their derivation and their continuance.
March 28, 2008
There is a direct and irrefutable connection between a credit crisis and government deficit spending. This article outlines this connection.
March 23, 2008
The American taxpayer is becoming a less reliable debt reducing agent as the Fed and debt swamp the significance of tax collection as a way to reduce the monstrous national debt.
March 16, 2008
A retirement can be a daunting experience unless it is tied to a lifelong dream. This has been the experience of the author who finally lived his dream in the years after he left his career.
March 07, 2008
Unions need to take a new approach to the relationship between workers and employers.
March 01, 2008
There is no fundamental difference in the political arguing of todays politicians.
February 17, 2008
Hillary Clinton claims she is awash with solutions which in reality are just more and bigger problems.
February 14, 2008
Universal Healthcare has a major consequence of making private doctors obsolete an/or criminals.
February 11, 2008
It is as racist to vote for gender ( or against) as it is to vote for or against on the basis of race.
February 07, 2008
The confession of Joran is flawed from many angles.
February 02, 2008
The idea President Bush has that all people want liberty is wanting.
January 28, 2008
Government spending takes many forms and one of them is the distribution of funds to taxpayers via the government printing presses.
January 27, 2008
The Republicans are gathering around a similar spokesman of the past.
January 17, 2008
We need the rich and the poor to make more and the government to take less.
January 14, 2008
There is a certain awareness that the country is heading into a recession. In an election year this is a kiss of death to the politicians who deny reality and don´t want to get involved. Like an alarm clock has gone off the candidates for President are positioning themselves to avoid any blame for...
January 07, 2008
When President NIxon resigned and was under the possibility of criminal indictment his successor President Ford pardoned him under the auspices that it would “heal “ the country. That act may have “healed’ the country but it also sealed President Ford’s fate as a short term President. And the Amer...
January 02, 2008
People go through life making decisions every day. Some people are better at making decisions than others. Some people have a difficult time making decisions. And some people take risks, get lucky some of the time and work off of hunches. When it comes time to vote there are many aspects of a ca...
December 26, 2007
The unique aspect of living in America is you do not have to belong to a religious, ethic or any other kind of group. You can be an individual because individualism is recognized and protected. There are no castes, government enforced memberships or class delineations that must be displayed to aut...
December 23, 2007
The duel for top spot in the primaries is centered around a claim of “experience” versus an ill defined “New Direction”. Since there is not an incumbent (which would naturally have the most experience) all those claiming experience are counting whatever time they have been interested and involved i...
December 17, 2007
There are more ways to destroy a country than to wrap yourself up in a corset of explosives and set yourself off in a crowd of people. In fact , as horrendous as this is, it is isolated and destroys a limited amount of lives and property. Conquest by invasion destroys far more lives and property b...
December 10, 2007
The most visible message we see in the way war is conducted by the United States is, “ We must not sink to the methods of the enemy”. We did not see such an accentuation of this theme during WWII and it only came into being when we began to fight limited warfare beginning with Korea. It follows th...
December 05, 2007
A foreign invasion is not on the foreseeable horizon and even if it were, there would be appropriate preparations, superior weaponry, a unified response and ultimately a victory for the United States. Yet this concern is consuming our attention while a smoldering hidden “bomb” is waiting to explode ...
November 28, 2007
The common misconception is universal health care means everyone will get” free” health care...end of story. But this is not the end of the story, but just the beginning. The beginning of what? The beginning of the loss of privacy, the beginning of the loss of availability of doctors and medicine...
November 15, 2007
There are severe penalties for lying in the courts and lying to Congress. With this premium on truth you would think any government operation would necessarily be truth driven. After witnessing the idiotic promises from candidates for public office you may begin to suspect that the honoring of tru...
November 11, 2007
The hue and cry for,” There ought to be a law “has been heard by the politicians who have little else to offer for their presence. There are laws that regulate businesses, as if a business owner is more to be watched than a politician. There are laws that regulate workers as if there was more to b...
October 27, 2007
Once upon a time there was a very wicked witch. She was mean and nasty from the time she was a wugly ( baby witch ) and as she grew up she became more and more conniving, devious and destructive. Her one wish from the time she was hatched was to be the ruler of the world. She imagined the many peo...
October 17, 2007
It is a naive notion that the government can be a source of funding, can provide various services for free and is somehow able to generate unlimited revenues that never impact anyone or anything negatively. This notion is a fantasy that needs to be analyzed and rejected.
To start at the beginnin...
October 01, 2007
There is some justification to free a country from a totalitarian dictator which we have done in Iraq. There is no justification for letting a band of unprincipled thugs attempt to establish their own political regime at our expense. In the name of human liberty we should support those who recogni...
October 01, 2007
There is often a concern in Washington that private individuals and corporations are getting unrealized windfalls from some oversight by government tax collectors. This is called a windfall because the government isn’t getting as much as it could if the tax were fully enforced and delineated. Noti...
September 13, 2007
We know that the surge strategy has been played out as an ongoing never ending scramble from one region to another as the enemy responds like Pavlov’s dogs to our build-ups and draw downs. With this scenario in evidence it is probably time to look at another option. For want of a more colorful desc...
August 25, 2007
Letters were left by Mother Teresa that indicated she doubted the existence of God. This revelation by one considered devout should be a wake-up call to all who have entertained the idea that faith alone is not convincing. Reading her tormented statements tells us that she did not live a happy life...
August 14, 2007
The stock market is tumbling, the government says inflation is moderate and everybody knows that gasoline prices have skyrocketed, milk prices are way up, property taxes are exorbitant, the cost of transporting goods is rising due to higher fuel costs and the government is telling us how strong the ...
August 07, 2007
Bridges fall, wars are stalemated, services run in the red, pot holes prevail, dams leak, steam pipes explode, transit trains collide and the American people cry for more government “oversight”. How much evidence is necessary for citizens to realize the answer to better performance cannot proceed f...
August 02, 2007
The more you see the antics of politicians the more you recognize there is some underlying similarity that places them in a distinct category of humanity. In today’s world with the influence of government schooling and a predominance of socialistic premises in our institutions of “higher’ learning ...
August 01, 2007
It has now been declared that if your friend(s) are fat you have a greater chance of being fat. What is wrong with this conclusion? First of all, what does friendship have to do with caloric intake, metabolism, personal eating habits and differences in exercise? Certainly friends may share mutual...
July 07, 2007
Practically every time you hear of a “problem” within an industry ( the latest is the concern with drugs within the professional wrestling circuit ) there is a cry for regulation via the government. The first thing to recognize is “ the government” has no special knowledge of the situation and has ...
June 30, 2007
After a hiatus of 23 days covering almost 5000 miles via a camper van there are a few observations I want to pass on . Some of this information may be useful to future voyageurs and some may be categorized as travel blather but after many days steering and leering its time to review some passing th...
May 30, 2007
After reading a book about John Jacob Astor it occurred to me people carry out their lives after establishing a “comfortable” mindset. This mindset be it business oriented, crime oriented, politically oriented, family oriented and/or a mixture of various mindsets. By “comfortable” mindset I mean f...
May 28, 2007
The city of Moscow, Idaho and Baghdad, Iraq were recently faced with similar situations. In Iraq as most know, an invasion occurred under the auspices of the country under a brutal dictator was a threat to the Middle East, the European Continent and ultimately to the United States. This was based ...
May 12, 2007
In true government fashion the U.S. Post Office with monopoly power , without a worry about competition, is on the road to oblivion. Cost control by an arrogant subsidized protected organization is a feeble gesture that only is used for propaganda and has no baseline to relate to. Without having t...
May 04, 2007
The environmentalist movement is not about protecting the environment for man, but for nature. Nature is not adaptable and if a species cannot adapt it must necessarily perish. Man has the ability to adapt to changes in natures conditions and this is how he has proceeded to advance his living cond...
April 29, 2007
America, the land of the free, is rapidly becoming the land of the restricted. A man was arrested for skinning a dead alligator in Florida, a woman had her van inspected for cleanliness and appropriateness for goat habitation in Wyoming. What used to be a simple pleasure, like going fishing, has b...
April 21, 2007
The naive notion that if only guns could not be bought that violence would cease is paraded so often you would think human mentality is evolving in the wrong direction. Just because a psycho or a terrorist ( there isn’t much difference ) choses one weapon to kill doesn’t mean they won’t use another...
April 14, 2007
The tragic accident Governor Corzine of New Jersey experienced brings home the message that flouting the law ( not wearing a seat belt ) because you have acquired a position of political power is dangerous and politically foolish. There are only two ways to flout the law. Either rule over the law ...
April 09, 2007
The politicians have sold a bill of goods to the public via grabbing the word” loophole” as a way to get around the money they confiscate. But a loophole works two ways. If you find a way to spend money that is beyond the limit that fiscal accountability calls for, you have capitalized on a spendi...
April 03, 2007
The ingredients for an altruist to fulfill his or her dream of moral perfection are contained in the causes they ascribe to. First of all there must be an underdog, a victim, an “underprivileged, i.e someone or something that will elicit sympathy. Whether that be a an animal, an oppressed populati...
April 01, 2007
I see by a recent Newsweek poll that 34% of college graduates accept the Biblical account of creation as fact. Assuming they were taught to question and think for themselves in college what questions did they avoid (or evade) to come to such a conclusion? Since some questions were obviously not a...
March 26, 2007
It is a commonly spread notion that we need to get away from fossil fuels and become more self sufficient on energy sources ( what ever they may be as long as they don’t consist of crude oil ). Why? Well there is the emission issue, the reliance on the production from other countries especially in...
March 18, 2007
“A Ponzi, or pyramid, scheme is a financial fraud built not on actual earnings, but on recruiting a succession of new investors -- whose contributions are then used to repay earlier investors in the scheme. Ponzi schemes generally collapse when new investors' contributions cannot keep pace with cash...
March 15, 2007
The movie “Patton” was and is a very popular movie as it demonstrates the character of a man who was dedicated to his profession ,was talented , competent in waging battles and was full of a single purpose composed of winning at war. Likewise “Song of the South” was a beloved story for those of suf...
March 11, 2007
Let’s make this real simple. Suppose you live in a house with another person and you have good health insurance that you work and pay for. Your roommate doesn’t work or has a job that either doesn’t provide health insurance or he chooses to pay for other things than a health insurance policy. Sin...
March 09, 2007
There is another popular misconception that seems to get a lot of play in the everyday media and that is “explaining” behavior by a reference to genetic composition. Recently a” Dr. Happy” indicated happiness may have a genetic component. In other words your ability to be happy may very well be inf...
March 04, 2007
It seems every time someone thinks they can’t reverse a choice they’ve made, they attach the word “addiction” to their behavior and that is supposed to exonerate them from making a choice to discontinue what they claim they can’t help doing. This illegitimate use of the word “addiction” leads to a ...
February 18, 2007
With all the striving for peace by those who want to avoid war there is a fundamental oversight that needs to be identified. War is the result of the choices people make and choices cannot be hamstrung by wishes of peace. No matter how fervent the wish, no matter how desperate the wish and no matt...
February 16, 2007
Other than outright stealing there are two commonly recognized ways of obtaining wealth. First there is the legitimate method of producing a good or service and exchanging this for a payment. This is the root method, the moral method and the source of all wealth. When the first wealth was created...
January 30, 2007
I heard General Petraeus make this statement on national television the other night. He said, “ I believe security in Iraq must ultimately come from the Iraqis”. Yeh, right. And how long have Iraqi factions been fighting and killing? The ideology of the Iraqis does not embrace living peacefully ...
January 26, 2007
To spin something is to turn it around. In the vernacular of the popular newscaster Bill O’Reilly who hosts The No-Spin Zone show” The O’Reilly Factor” hosted by the Fox News Channel this evidently means that news will be presented without trying to twist it to mean something other than what the fa...
January 22, 2007
Most people would hide in the closet if they had something to be ashamed of, but power hungry politicians live by a different standard. In the seeking of power it is imperative to toss your conscience out the window. You see this over and over again. Even a criminal conviction has little effect a...
January 19, 2007
Many people do not realize the money they earn for their survival and trade is being taken from them every day. The thief is not some nebulous concept called” inflation” but the concrete actions of the United States government we have hired to protect us. You may ask, “ How can that be?”. It is do...
January 07, 2007
Let’s suppose Iraq was a powerful nation and threatened the United States with conquest. If the situation were perceived as it was in the Second World War that we could be conquered, would we be toying with the idea that one billion dollars should be sent for rebuilding, that 20,000 troops should s...
December 28, 2006
It is now unlawful to melt down nickels and pennies because they contain metals that are more valuable as raw metal than coinage ( collector’s rarities not included ). How did this occur and who caused it? You could have melted down nickels and pennies a few years ago and nobody cared. Why? It...
December 18, 2006
Let me first discount any accusations that I am being paid by WalMart to extol their virtues. Not that I would have any aversion to doing so, I just haven’t been asked. Be that as it may, I would like to defend WaMart simply for being the epitome of the American Dream. When a company gets an idea ...
December 11, 2006
A person with a bipolar condition, formerly labeled as manic depressive, is typified by having mood swings from exuberance to depressed. These two extremes are treated as if they were not interconnected. As if a period of exuberance where fantasies were indulged and proved to be disappointing would...
December 01, 2006
When a person is forced to enter the armed forces or any other endeavor against his will he has taken on the status of a slave. He or she must do as they are told, work for whatever the enforcing agency decides it will distribute and until they are liberated from this servitude status they are not ...
November 21, 2006
There is not a lot to be gained by simply reiterating the facts and the findings for those following the Natalee Holloway case. The inconsistencies and the obfuscations are common knowledge. There is nothing for the media to slather over and all those who had their moments of fame are now fading j...
November 19, 2006
When something is told over and over from childhood with emotional passion you would think a mature person would reflect on this indoctrination and question the validity of it. But indoctrination being what it is, leaves many people with residual feelings of guilt and fear to the extent they do not...
November 11, 2006
The recent election that found the Democrats victorious and in control of both houses of Congress cannot be attributed to a winning message but the results of Republicans thinking if they could gain power they could mold a nation. The kind of mold they demonstrated was the kind you find on decaying...
November 10, 2006
Globally and locally there are hordes of people attempting to commit fraud. From the attempt to hoodwink a neighbor for an unreturned tool to the attempt to dump global warming off as impending doom, the commonality of the approach and the methods are identical. It begins with the idea that realit...
October 28, 2006
What is the difference in the way we are handling the war in Iraq and the way Israelis are handling the conflict with her neighbors? Not much. Both countries, Israel and the United States, are fighting and killing and being killed without a clear definition of victory. Neither of these countries wi...
October 25, 2006
There is a variation of an intimidation technique that needs to be examined and rejected. It consists of a loyalty pact that requires followers of an organization or an ideology to either understand and apply teachings and/or principles in a way that agrees with the hierarchy in the organization or...
October 23, 2006
Since there must be some criteria for discrimination when determining a viable candidate for a political office it is important to prioritize attributes that fit the office. We often see people elected for superficial reasons and then wonder at the results ( or lack thereof ) they achieve. A likab...
October 19, 2006
There is a vision by many in the world that if only weapons were banned there would be less death attributed to weaponry. This is particularly evident in the gun control crowd. In the old west movies the townspeople were usually defenseless or not proficient with guns and relied on the heroic guns...
October 13, 2006
If you look at the operations and the results of the United Nations and the nation of Iraq you see some startling similarities. Both can’t seem to accomplish anything that promotes their stated objectives and both are loaded with factions that act contrary to their goals. The recent crisis with No...
October 07, 2006
When you step into the voting booth in November you will be asked to vote for a candidate from a party that either wants to face terrorism and fight back or a candidate from a party that is predominately willing to withdraw from the battlefield thereby encouraging the enemy to attack from newly esta...
October 03, 2006
A past President of the United States once answered a question by stating,” It depends of what the meaning of is, is”. This IS the malarky one might expect from one who pretends that oral sex iISn’t really sex. IS is a very important verb. Nothing can be without it. IS is the state of being as d...
September 26, 2006
The question has been properly asked, “ Why is there so little outrage concerning the vicious unprovoked attacks on innocent American citizens and soldiers and a global avalanche of screaming, chanting and senseless violence concerning a statement that casts doubt on the virtue of Islam?” If you ...
September 17, 2006
Daily we hear from the politically correct crowd that we in the United States are viewed by the world to be frowned upon. We hear that many countries do not like us and we know that many countries would like to destroy our way of life. We are told we need to be cognizant of this hatred by barbar...
September 12, 2006
The guilt trips that are laid on the individuals that no longer are able to share the intimacy of a marital relationship are altruism’s answer to how to sacrifice in relationships. Certainly couples who have children have taken on a responsibility for their upbringing but this does not mean an in...
September 10, 2006
A common sense approach to bankruptcy is the recognition that no matter how much money you will be able to acquire you cannot possibly ever pay it back to your creditors. This is not what is required for a government regulating agency to declare a banking facility bankrupt, but it is a valid depicti...
September 06, 2006
What a way to fight a war. The ground troops committing the atrocities are the major focus of the campaign while the leaders and suppliers of weapons and material are approached with “diplomacy” and trepidation. Is it any wonder that we have a long term slog with no definite end in sight?
How...
August 31, 2006
When a business focuses on its source of revenue and gears up to match market demand, it must prioritize it’s activities to meet this objective. When a government expands to the stage where it is overloaded with regulations and crises, it should take stock of its expanded state and begin to prior...
August 27, 2006
When someone doesn’t want to talk about their record or stance you can bet they will defer to another issue to try to obfuscate. This will be the weak ploy of the Democrats this Fall. They will rail about the poor federal government response to a natural disaster ( brought about by Democratic el...
August 26, 2006
Have you noticed the cry by Muslim terrorists calling for unity against the infidels breaks down almost immediately with inter-Jihadist fighting? With so many factions wanting a united front and a one world religion headed by a supreme leader ( where have we heard this before ?) you would think t...
August 22, 2006
The big bluff is about to end. It is easy to threaten and boast and feign superiority but to produce results requires intelligence, an ability to see the consequences of your actions and a potential problem analysis that covers all contingencies. The bragging and haughty threats only requires ...
August 19, 2006
Anyone who watches a panel discussing current affairs gets mostly a rehash of observations. There is not a definitive answer to an ongoing issue like the “Middle East Crisis” but a hodgepodge of various opinions about mostly non-essentials. For instance there arose the “hot topic” of whether...
August 17, 2006
There have been instances where people have been hijacked and “brainwashed” to commit atrocities, sacrifices and violence. The organizations doing the kidnapping and the brainwashing are usually referred to as cults. Patty Hearst claimed this distinction as have many less famous captives. Prison...
August 17, 2006
When rational human beings are faced with a danger, they do not try to accommodate or dismiss the danger. They asses the level of danger it presents, decide what course of action is appropriate to alleviate the danger and act in accordance with that decision. Lets suppose we are confronted with ...
August 14, 2006
Every time the war in Iraq is mentioned to a Democrat we hear the accusation that Osama still hasn’t been caught and/or destroyed; therefore, the war on terror is not being successfully fought. The war is not being executed very well at all but this has nothing to do with the demise of Osama Bin ...
August 13, 2006
I watched a visual presentation of “Green Living” on the New York Times web page the other day and it occurred to me clean air could be the product of a closed facility instead of trying to stop all emissions and stop up automobile tailpipes. Just as you pay for “pure water’ so to, the clean air...
August 10, 2006
This is a warning to those seeking a diplomatic solution to the war against Israel. What ever you win will be lost. There are multitudes of naive “diplomats” thinking and articulating an “agreement”, an accommodation, or a “package”that they hope will lead to a peaceful resolution. There may be ...
August 04, 2006
If something works on a small basis then one has to assume it might work on a larger arena. Let’s look at that poorly defined adventure in Iraq and see if there is some corresponding action that could be tried on a larger scale to resolve the ongoing stalemate. If a criminal gang took over a nei...
July 31, 2006
I watched two former military officers on Fox News the other night explain how ground troops were preferable to identify the enemy to avoid civilian casualties. No one mentioned the added danger to ground troops as the focus was on the protection of” innocent civilians”. Knowing the “innocent ci...
July 28, 2006
If a person or group has confidence they can sell an idea through persuasion they focus their efforts on telling their story and wait for the voice of reason to infiltrate the minds open and willing to consider their case. If they are successful there is no violence or bloodshed but a peaceful co...
July 25, 2006
The idea that a person can believe something without verification is a notion responsible for more human misery and delusion than any other. To clarify this claim, let’s take a few examples and see whether or not this is merely a declaration or a valid statement. Lets begin with a global belief th...
July 16, 2006
The G-8 conference world leaders call for restraint by Israel as the country defends itself from unprovoked attacks with Katyusha rockets by Hezbellah. The world has indeed gone mad. The sequence of events shows Hezbellah clearly initiated the conflict by kidnapping Israeli soldiers against their ...
July 15, 2006
Long before the inception of Israel there was unrest in the Middle East. Centuries ago there was the Crusades. And the commonality of unrest to the region is the dominant mindset that dwells not on achievement and progress, but the destruction of others. Most of this can be traced to the fundamen...
July 03, 2006
When people use tactics to force others to accept their beliefs other than a reasoned argument they assume they have a revealed truth that must be imposed. The incident at a New York Dinner where PETA obtained tickets to harass the guest of honor, Beyonce Knowles, for her use of fur in her clothing...
June 29, 2006
Recently there was a television program about a doctor who was poisoned by his wife using castor beans, which contain the poison ricin. The story revealed the doctor had returned from the tropics and was suspected of contracting some disease from his visit. He was placed in the hospital and severa...
June 04, 2006
With a recap of the Fox News coverage, the media now rests waiting for something to emerge that will shed new light on the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Their theories to date have led them nowhere but they proudly present all they have done as an example of an exhaustive search. This column is...
May 18, 2006
What do you do when a crime is committed and there is not a trace of evidence to pursue? You have three choices. You can endlessly search for evidence and if nothing turns up eventually you must turn to the second choice which is to file the case away in the cold case files. Either of these two c...
May 17, 2006
A border defines the geographical location of a country, but beyond that what other purpose does a border serve? It is a line that tells those who cross it that they have entered a place where the rules may be different than the country they are leaving. All countries have rules to maintain stabil...
May 14, 2006
The term ?economic development? has a benevolent ring to it but so does .? the government wants to help?. In reality economic development is another political scheme for politicians to posture as a ?partner? in prosperity thereby perpetuating their term in office. What is ?economic development? an...
May 13, 2006
When you see the price of computers drop as they have over the last decade and you look for an explanation you find there are a lot of manufacturers making and selling many different makes and models. The interrelationship between these manufacturers is one of competition. Each is trying to provid...
May 09, 2006
What?s wrong with this picture? A threat by a citizen against the President or an elected official gets a lot of attention and instant response. A threat from a maniac in a foreign country against the entire American population ( including the elected officials ) gets a comment like ?disappointin...
May 07, 2006
A concern with climate change is the most ill advised cause a zealot can latch on to. Why? Well in the first place a significant climate change in a person’s lifetime is so miniscule it means nothing to an individual during his era on earth. Secondly, to hold that every spot on earth will be affe...
May 05, 2006
There used to be a popular saying, “It’s a free country” and it meant that individuals were free to decide for themselves what they wanted to do with their life, what they wanted to wear and eat and where they wanted to live. It was a statement recognized world wide which brought those seeking inde...
May 02, 2006
People do not commit crimes without a motive. The motive may be irrational, but it is what motivates them to violate the rights of another person or persons. The criminal expects that by violating a victim’s right to life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness they will gain or alleviate something t...
April 29, 2006
There is a phenomena that takes place every day and appears to cast innocence on the practitioners. It is called ,” Show that you are doing everything you can so if something doesn’t get done the criticism will be minimal”. This is what is happening in the Natalee Holloway investigation.
If yo...
April 28, 2006
The recent rise in gasoline prices has Congress in its usual state of panic trying to placate, obfuscate, mandate and obviate. Much like a new parent that hurries to respond to every whimper of the newborn, Congress hasn’t acquired the sense that they are dealing with adults who don’t need their fu...
April 25, 2006
It is often stated (especially by the retired on Social Security) that, ? I?m living on a fixed income?. There is no such thing. What people on Social Security are living on is a declining income. If you check the rate of inflation against the supposed offset for inflation (i.e. cost of living i...
April 20, 2006
I was leafing through a magazine the other day and I spotted an ad with a picture of a fox. The caption under the picture read,? He needs his fur more than you do?. The ad was sponsored by the Humane Society. I thought, ? How presumptuous?. How would any one know if an animal would need anything ...
April 19, 2006
People talk about an ideal world but most of the time this is just a projection of a world where things are not possible. An ideal world must be possible or the concept is merely a wish for something that could never be. For instance, many people want a world of peace but they think the way to get...
April 14, 2006
When you were growing up on the playground you encountered mini-thugs that picked on those they knew they could lick and kept a wide berth from those that they knew were tougher than they were. The pattern was always the same. The ones who were unable to defend themselves with either superior stre...
April 12, 2006
Now that Iran has a uranium enrichment program and is boasting of its ability to thumb its nose to the world represented by the U.N., the specter of U.S. military strikes looms larger. The problem is, we are bogged down in our campaign to crush the terrorist sponsoring nations by an inept endgame i...
April 11, 2006
Everyone has the ability to solve mysteries. Some are better at it than others. Some are better because they practice and some who practice are not so good. It is not practice alone that can get the job done. If a golfer practices and practices and doesn?t get better it is because his technique i...
April 11, 2006
Whenever there is a government program that doesn?t work and/or is failing miserably we hear the word ?reform?. Notice we do not hear words like ?elimination?, ?retract,?? remove? or? dump?. The premise is the law must be saved and can be made better. This faulty premise has led to the expansion ...
April 08, 2006
There is a common saying “ United We Stand, Divided We Fall”. This is more than just a statement showing strength in numbers. It is the key to relationships for any collection of individuals under a common purpose. If you want to keep the relationship, whether it be a marriage or a nation, there ...
April 04, 2006
Since it seems to be the fashion in this age of speculation of doom and gloom to posit a piece of nonsense, call it a theory and claim it must be true because there are a lot of people who support it. I conducted a poll and found that many people will buy into something just because they want to. ...
April 03, 2006
If the earth is to be saved for future generations the first consideration is saving the component that will generate the ideas, methods and technology to turn resources efficiently and effectively into human benefits. This means the answer cannot lie in the laws and restrictions that stifle innova...
April 03, 2006
A collateral ?problem? that has emerged from drifting into a welfare state is the concern with how will we afford to give the entitlements we have insisted on for those who jump our borders. Further why should those who just show up be entitled to an invitation to join the party? It is obvious we ...
March 31, 2006
It is common knowledge the Republican Party is in trouble. They may lose their majority in either one or both of the houses of Congress and the Republican President is stumbling badly. And what has been the overriding movement within the Republican Party that has brought forth such a calamity? In...
March 29, 2006
In the world of man there is a need for many goods and services. These goods and services require people to be productive in order to create a surplus beyond their immediate needs. They need to be able to acquire that which they cannot or choose not to produce. There are goods and services cente...
March 27, 2006
Daily we see the antics of Congress scrambling to address the latest hotspot of trouble and unrest. We see a press corps jumping from story to story trying to get attention with headlines that when examined are inaccurate lead-ins to pages of mush. We hear radio and TV talking heads frantically tr...
March 24, 2006
After months and months of investigations and a one track search for a dead Natalee Holloway there is one common thread that seems to be constantly overlooked. First of all there is the bizarre range of theories offered by the Aruba authorities. For instance take the latest from Gerald Dompig (Deput...
March 21, 2006
Suppose the United States was faced with insurrection on the home front. Suppose we had insurgents bombing and killing and creating chaos. Suppose the police was understaffed to handle mounting attacks and the safety and security of American citizens was threatened to the extent that a breakdown in...
March 06, 2006
After seeing what our current policy has accomplished and recognizing that a change in policy is necessary, it is time to begin laying the groundwork for results other than a long drawn out hope for withdrawal with dignity. The first thing to recognize is the source of the biggest problem in Iraq is...
March 05, 2006
There are many subtle (and some not so subtle) messages conveyed daily in the many forms of communication we call ?the media?. Most pretend to be conveyors of truth and only report what they have seen or heard without necessarily forming and releasing an opinion via the report. If you analyze them...
March 03, 2006
I want to walk you through the mentality of those that think they shouldn?t pay for anything. More and more on the television screen ( particularly regarding the Katrina disaster) we see people interviewed who are expecting something for nothing. There are the reporters who fawn over the ?free? ser...
February 26, 2006
There is the popular politician’s notion that we must be concerned about the future if and only if the future is beyond our foreseeable life span. For instance it is perfectly acceptable for a politician to postpone acting on the Social Security crisis but the concern about global warming is not t...
February 24, 2006
The latest rationale for approving a sale to the United Arab Emirate consists of telling the public that we need to cultivate allies in the Middle East. Given we are daily denounced in that part of the world, that an attack on our country came from that region and the level of trust on both side...
February 19, 2006
Suppose you were asked for definition of criminal behavior? You undoubtedly would refer to the lack of an adherence to the law. But what if people making and enforcing the law were conducting themselves in the same way as the people operating outside the law? For instance, suppose a person told a...
February 10, 2006
Has anyone noticed the disappearance of the written word as a rallying cry? The anti-abortion mob displays a bloody fetus and immediately concludes that is all that is necessary for making a convincing case for violence. The Muslims point to a picture that may or may not look like the Prophet Moham...
February 08, 2006
The riots over a depiction of a Muslim prophet stems not from some “insensitive” issue regarding proper protocol or “radicals” outside the mainstream. The riots are the result of vast members of the human race surrendering their minds to the fallacy of faith. The rioting Muslims are acting like th...
February 07, 2006
Billions of dollars are taken from American citizens every year to be sent to foreign countries that show no gratitude ,openly despise the United States and is wasted on improper distribution, internal corruption, and fraud. Yet the policy continues, the dollars continue to emigrate, the politician...
February 04, 2006
There are organizations founded on what they deem to be principles. What in fact they are founded on is a postulate. What is the difference? A principle is an essential ground rule to guide the movement of the organization based on observable evidence to back its veracity. A postulate is a prop...
February 03, 2006
The Europeans are being bombarded with criticism and threats because they, through their cartoonists, have offended many Muslims. The Muslims are upset because the portrayal of their prophet Mohammed was offensive to them and they are venting their outrage through threats, violence and demands for ...
January 29, 2006
We know in biology there is a phenomena whereby the reproductive cells of two parents combine contributing half their chromosome cells to the newly formed cell which then begins dividing and growing. There is a claim by some that that combination of cells is now a life. The cells before the combin...
January 27, 2006
The recent Hamas victory at the polls shows us why spreading Democracy is not the answer to getting a more peaceful world. Just because people vote doesn’t mean that what they will vote for will necessarily be positive. Voting is merely choosing an alternative and if the alternatives are false ...
January 19, 2006
Government officials are quick to use the word “gouge” when referring to someone raising prices above a level considered normal ( by them). If there is a crisis and the price of something goes up immediately afterwards, the cry of gouging begins. But lets look at the phenomena of raising prices an...
January 13, 2006
A new leader emerges from the Palestinian arena and promptly Israelis are attacked. The Israelis respond and the conflict continues as before. What exactly is the conflict and why can it not be resolved by the two parties? First of all the conflict is fundamentally irreconcilable as long as both ...
January 09, 2006
We are fighting a war but it isn’t about creating a democracy in a country or liberating that country. The liberation has been accomplished. The dictator has been deposed, the regime has been dismantled and the road is clear for those who want to establish a free country. The reason that isn’t ha...
January 08, 2006
Any person who lived in the forties as I did, remembers the feel of a quarter and the price of a candy bar. Now a quarter feels like what we used to call a “slug” and today wouldn’t begin to buy a candy bar. This deterioration of the quality and value of American money is not the result of a natu...
January 06, 2006
Yesterday I was listening to our “conservative” Senator from Iowa on the radio discussing the skimpiness of the spending cut efforts of Congress. Senator Charles Grassley ( a Republican from Iowa ) was decrying how paltry the reduction in government spending was. He pointed out that one third of ...
November 30, 1999
With a philosophy of “ lets run it up the flagpole and see if it works’ coupled with a stubbornness that is supposed to convey conviction, another military “idea” has been proven wrong. The attempt to have a partial victory as has been the American policy post WW II can be transcribed into a policy...