Before the State of The State Address next week, I would like to offer my thanks to Governor Brad Little for placing Alex Adams as the new head of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. When I look up the definition of LEVITHEAN, it sends me to the Web page of the Idaho Department […]
As many of our readers know I am a political neophyte. I didn’t really concern myself with the world of politics beyond my dining room table or outside the operating room until I retired from the practice of surgery and medicine—Socrates told us there is politics in everything we do. Over the years I have […]
From 1789 until the rise of the progressive movement under Woodrow Wilson, Congress adhered to James Madison’s view that the Federal spending power was limited to executing the Constitution’s enumerated powers. From pre-Civil War days bills appropriating aid to education, income support for citizens—except veterans, and grants supporting the poor were rejected by Federal Lawmakers. […]
The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is my favorite time of year. Growing up in Ohio and playing football in both college and high school, the traditions of the Christmas Season are very much intertwined with the sacraments and orthodoxies of high school and college football. In Idaho, this year our Boise State Football team […]
There are giants in every field of endeavor. They transcend the limits of their areas of expertise and exert their influence over others who know absolutely nothing about the intricacies of the science or the art or the insights into the natural or spiritual worlds where the great man or woman worked, experimented and innovated. […]
There is a lot of HATE being spewed in the post-election commentary by the likes of Joey Behar, Rachel Maddow, and Joy (no irony in her first name there) Reid. Conservatives and Christian conservatives have heard during early election cycles the words “deplorable” to describe “people like us”. Mr. Obama opined that we “cling to […]
Over the past several weeks my lovely wife Lynn has decided to “streamline” my library. I love my books—every one of them. I have well over a thousand books and at the end of the exercise we removed a total of seven books from the inventory. One, a book written by Douglas South Hall Freeman […]
The discussions around family Thanksgiving Dinners across our country will I am sure be vigorous and I hope fun. I hope that in my family all will be courteous and not contentious—but I doubt that can happen. Sometimes contentious debate can be great fun. We will be having Thanksgiving dinner in Seattle with my son […]
The cries of fascism, racism, sexism, and isim-ism, continue to be bantered about by info babes and gals and those in the written media even two weeks after the election. Unfortunately, a withered worn-out endomorph in Hollywood has published a “screed” on his web page that can only be produced by a heart infected by […]
Growing up I looked forward to receiving two magazines in the mail every month. Sports Illustrated (SI)—especially in January with the Swim Suit Issue, and Scientific American. I stopped subscribing to (SI) in 1992 because of the incredible slanted articles they wrote regarding issues that today would be considered “social justice” centric. The same thing […]
Today has been a great day. First Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are given portfolio and title to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency. CNN certainly has a different take on what is about to happen than the new directors themselves: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-department-of-government-efficiency-trump/index.html https://nypost.com/2023/11/13/news/vivek-ramaswamy-vows-to-fire-federal-workers-based-on-social-security-numbers-nothing-will-break Classical business governance dogma—I must admit that it has over the […]
For the past four years several times a day I have prayed that we have another GREAT AWAKENING IN OUR COUNTRY. WE have had several such religious revivals. Faith, has always informed our political philosophy and politics in our country, starting with the words of our GREAT DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.—’WE are endowed by our Creator […]