Yawper

I propose that we reconsider the way we view the wars of the twentieth century.  History, I believe, will reach the same conclusion in time, therefore it seems unnecessary to procrastinate.   In this thesis the Vietnam War, for example, was not a war at all, but a conflict in a much larger struggle. Carl von […]

In April, I wrote about the probability of secession talk if Obama won re-election.  For a variety of reasons, I never posted the piece.  Today, reading about the petitions to secede filed from 23 states I am drawn back to the topic.  The Texas petition now has around 40,000 signatures, so, for academic purposes, let […]

The 2012 Presidential election presents a simple choice.  Your answer to a single question is enough to determine which candidate should receive your vote.  When you understand this you can ignore all the commercials, turn off the news, not try to measure who has the better policy, or which candidate is more truthful, or which […]

Great liberal apologist and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne last week wrote something so comical that I just cannot let it pass.  Dionne, we are supposed to believe, is suddenly worried about the state of American Conservatism.  The downfall of the conservatives will be the result of “untempered individualism,” writes Dionne. While I appreciate […]

May 22 could have become an important day in American history.  Colonel Lewis Nicola could have become a famous – or infamous – figure.  But neither of those things did happen, and we have George Washington to thank.  Instead we have what I call the Nicola test (I already discussed my Madison test, and will […]