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Why We Shop at Walmart Instead of Whole Foods

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Years ago it was popular for companies to sponsor a day for employees to take their kids to the office to see where mom or dad worked. My wife got stuck with organizing one of the days for her employer. In an introductory exercise, she had the kids sit around […]

Lessons at the Bookstore on July 4th Weekend

Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes Editors’ note: A great holiday read and a superb dose of reality!!   How scholarship has given way to polemics that divide the nation Scene:  A Barnes & Noble bookstore in Tucson, Arizona. Just inside the door are display tables of featured books and best-sellers.  They reveal how scholarship has given […]

JFK Colluded With The Russians

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes But Trump was vilified and persecuted for unproven allegations of collusion. I’m far from being a Trump groupie or apologist but do love to read history, especially when it reveals that a beloved figure from the past had been guilty of the same accusations leveled today against a presently maligned […]

How Democrats Could Steal the Midterms

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes By now everyone with two working brain cells knows, or pretends not to know, that Democrats cheated on a colossal scale to get Whisperin’ Joe into the White House.  So it’s safe to say that Republicans, having wised up to the Donks’ stratagems and skullduggery, will capture both House and Senate […]

The Prickly Pear Primary Voting Recommendations

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Choosing a candidate in a primary election is often not an easy task. Some candidates have track records, while others are new to the game. Some have expressed strong opinions, others are quiet and their views are not widely known. Republican primaries are also difficult because most of the candidates are […]

New Book Shows Top U.S. General Comparing Trump Supporters To Nazis Seeking A ‘Coup’

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Anyone who looked at the events of 2020 and projected a coup attempt onto Donald Trump has no place in senior government leadership, let alone a Dairy Queen serving Blizzards. What better way to know the U.S. military is compromised—aside from racially extremist training and leftist propaganda videos—than when its […]

Let Them Dig Their Hole

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes When your opponent is digging themselves a hole, it is wise to let them continue. This is not a substitute for having a good offense. One cannot rely on the tendency of self-destruction alone.  So Republicans should continue to hone their message, improve their ground game, and fight for election […]

Tuition Loan Debt Is Corporatism at Its Worst

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The left accuses the right of fascism, the right accuses the left of socialism, and both engage in corporatism.  Corporatism is the organization of the body politic and the economy by interest groups, such as farmers, corporations, banks, media, labor unions, educators, government agencies, and professional guilds. It’s difficult to […]

Tucson Gets Bad News From Amazon

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The city gets fifteen-dollar jobs from Amazon while other cities get the company’s six-figure jobs. Local news outlets were all aflutter about Amazon recently announcing that it would be hiring hundreds of workers at $15.50 per hour for its sortation center near the Tucson airport. That’s actually bad news. What […]