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Clear filtersThis is my favorite time of year. Fall. College football. Dove hunts. Pig roasts with blue grass bands in the country. My favorite experience of the year, better than Christmas, is my first trip to…
It was a night time firefight. In the jungle. Vietnam. The morning sunlight exposed the carnage from the night’s horror. The dead and blown up body parts lay scattered around the encampment. Ken…
“I don’t understand what went wrong.” This is the refrain I have heard the past two days from journalists and other establishment elites concerning the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. I am here…
I kind of feel sorry for Andrew Cuomo. Don’t get me wrong, I like nothing about him. If there was ever a Governor who deserves to be chucked out of office, it is Cuomo. Have you ever heard the…
I once dated a gal from Wisconsin, a saucy one of German extract. I could tell she thought I was some sort of anachronism from the 1850s. My great great grandfather’s Confederate sword hung over the…
Few things are more out of whack in this country than our education system. I like to use the word “learned” as opposed to “educated” when weighing whether or not someone is a dumb ass. This country…
I don’t agree that economics is really a “hard” science. Economics is a function of human behavior, period. Now, if you go to a fancy Ivy League university, major in economics and then go on to get a…
A friend of mine, a big muckety muck CEO of a national company with $14 billion in sales suggested that I write a positive article about “good things” going on in the US and quit bashing the Left. I…
My buddy Leigh Spruill, an Episcopal minister, once told me that the word epiphany comes from the Greek, and in its original Greek roots, it means more than just “to reveal” or “revealing.” It…
I figure I know pretty much everything there is to know. The last time I was wrong about anything was June 1997. I predicted Mike Tyson would bite off Evander Holyfield’s ear in the 4 th round of…
Few things befuddle me more that those silly, self-help, saccharine posts on Facebook. The author, Miss Suzie Sunshine “inspires” the world on how to be happy and a perfect human being, presumably…
I am here to save America! In recognition of July 4 th , and the reasons behind the struggle for Independence, I have decided to create a new political party, the Deconstructionist Party. Naturally,…
A great struggle is upon us. The ideals of the West are under attack. The unwashed barbarian hordes are at the gate. This army, led by the Prince of Darkness has no other agenda than to tear down and…
My brother Walter, aka Fat Wally is in a tussle with the University of Virginia and its radical Left President, Jim “Lyin” Ryan. Fat Wally really isn’t fat, but just as truth should never get in the…
I left the big city last night to check on the farm. As the sun was about to set over the glistening Rappahannock, I was startled to hear a “whizzing sound.” A giant frisbee appeared out of nowhere.…
You know what burns my biscuits? Math. Don’t get me wrong, math is a wonderful tool to understand quantitative applications. For example, “Rob Smith can throw a football 65 yards on a rope.” We can…
I was lounging in my Malibu beach house and the University of Alabama cheerleaders were dropping grapes in my mouth……, oh wait, that’s a different dream. My bad. In this dream, I was giving a speech…
On my son’s first day of school, the teacher asked the class what their fathers did for a living. My son answered, “My Dad is a dancing chicken.” I was an awesome dancing chicken. I was a serial…
