For a while now I’ve been closely following the “fake news” story, Pizzagate. If you have not heard of this ritualistic pedophile ring, I urge you to read this . It is a lengthy, but unbiased chronological compilation of the many facets of Pizzagate. What is the most disturbing about this scandal is the silence;…
If you want to understand why collectivism will never work, the next time you fly somewhere just pay attention to the behaviors at the gate. I was stuck at JFK for a few extra hours today and observed about a dozen flights go out from my perch in the SkyClub in Concourse B…mostly small regional…
I have developed a law regarding progressives. Call it the Smith Law of Diminishing Progressive Intelligence. It states: If a liberal hasn’t said something illogical, self-contradictory, physically or financially impossible, historically inaccurate or just outright stupid, you just haven’t listened to them long enough, Therefore; Have patience and wait, they will eventually hang themselves…
Regarding American politics, there are these three rules to remember: Correlation is not causation, There is always the yin and the yang and, Politics is temporary. Nothing lasts forever (except principles). Rule 1: Correlation is not causation. Events must be dissected to find the true root cause. For example, America is faced with…
Human nature is an interesting thing. Certain aspects of it never change, no matter how old we get. We are, at our root, creatures of habit and many (if not most) of our reactions to events are generally predictable. I can remember watching the kids play at a summer family gathering many, many years ago…
As a young engineer, I was washed over by the first waves of Six Sigma and the teachings of W. Edwards Deming to break on US shores back in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Prior to and during this revolution in manufacturing, I worked for a defense subcontractor – my first job was a…
We have a special class of people among us. First we had SJW’s (Social Justice Warriors), the intrepid crybully soldiers of Marxsim, but the election of Donald Trump has revealed a class of progressive medicine men within the SJW movement. Apparently the priest class of the social justice movement is filled with mystics – Social…
As to the fear of the Democrats about Jeff Sessions, the Democrats are justifiably petrified that so much of their agenda has been executed by Executive actions and by departmental directive, all of which can be reversed by a new president and a new AG and there is nothing the Democrats in Congress can do…
In Federalist 68, Alexander Hamilton writes: “The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate…
One late winter Monday morning several years ago, I was driving down from Park City to take my daughter to the Salt Lake airport to catch a flight back to school (U of M – Ann Arbor). Park City is about 1500 feet of elevation above Salt Lake and I-80 snakes down Parley’s Canyon to…
In 1988, Oldsmobile tried to reach escape velocity and leave behind the gravitational pull of the idea that the brand was moribund – that it actually was hot and hip and not simply curmudgeonly enough to have a broken hip. America was assured (to hip Bryan Adams/Patti Smyth/Breakfast Club syle music) that “This isn’t your…
When most people hear the phrase “Checks and Balances”, they normally think about the three co-equal branches of the US government, the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial. That’s expected as this is the most common idea of the Constitution taught in schools – at least before civics was replaced with teaching third graders how…
A high school friend of our family recently asked me why the reaction to Trump’s election was so strong on the left as opposed to the basic non-reaction of the right to Obama’s first election. I thought about the changes I have seen just in my lifetime and all I could come up with was…
“…But the Chief Justice says, ‘There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.’ True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union, assembled by their deputies in convention, at the call of Congress or of two-thirds of the States. Let them decide to which they…
In my humble opinion, these anti-Trump protests have a very FPS/RPG video-game (First Person Shooter/Role Playing Game) feel to them. I say that because in these video game worlds (like HALO, Gears of War or Call of Duty) there is a lot of action, the players are totally absorbed in the game, even the weakest…
Last night there was a piece on the local NBC affiliate showing crying and fearful children in the Salt Lake area schools afraid that because Trump was elected, their parents would be deported before the kids got home. I was so sorry for these kids, yet so angry at the people who put them and…
This sad election season has devolved into a battle between Hillary’s clear criminality and possession of a vagina and Trump’s taxes and whose vagina he may or may not have grabbed – but even sadder is the fact that the world keeps on turning and the deep state keeps on consuming liberty. Policy matters and…
If the last 6 months of my political life had a movie title, it might be “Dr. Trumplove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Trump” (with all due apologies to Slim Pickens, his heirs and successors). Or maybe “CVC: Cretin vs. Criminal” in the mode of the “AVP: Alien vs. Predator”…
We need Hope and Change III. For the past 8 years the Democrat Jackasses have been: Wrong on foreign policy – alienated our friends and allies while showing weakness to our enemies. Wrong on wars – got us “out” of Iraq and then into Libya, Syria and now back into Iraq. Wrong on Obamacare –…
A friend of mine said this about wood fires: “Wood heat is just different. When I step into a room with a wood stove fired up, it feels somehow.. .soft. I don’t know how else to describe it. There is nothing impersonal or disinterested about it, as with oil or gas, or worst of all,…
The Rio Norte Line 
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