Year: 2013

George Zimmerman exhibited the good sense not to flash a triumphant high-five after a jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder or manslaughter in the 2012 shooting death of an unarmed 17-year-old named Trayvon Martin. There was no public victory dance, only a quiet exit from the harsh public spotlight. I had expected the […]

Here’s something you should do if you haven’t done so in a while: visit your mother and father and get out the old photo box. Surely you have one. Ours is in my parents’ hall closet. It’s in a sturdy old Pabst Blue Ribbon beer case. Lucky for me, I needed some photos for a […]

On July 15, at Washington D.C.’s Freedom Plaza, Americans from all demographic sectors will gather to rally for jobs. Organized by the Black American Leadership Alliance, marchers will protest the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, S. 744, that would increase legal immigration levels by 50 percent and grant amnesty to more than […]

NOTE: As of this writing the jury was deliberating and cable news networks were “filling time with wild speculation from media ordained experts” who know as much about what’s happening in the jury room as a coin-toss. The jury could come in at any time between hitting “send” noon on Saturday and this going live […]

For years, illegal immigrants have been referred to as “in the shadows.” The phrase is nonsense. They’re standing in the bright light at day labor centers, medical clinics or even in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings as Senator Patrick Leahy’s personally invited guests. The most widely accepted total of illegal immigrants in the United States […]

Nuclear efficiency systems engineer Jeremy Preston moved back into his house in Delaware from Tennessee, where his license to carry a concealed weapon was also legal in Delaware. He bought a car and picked up a Delaware license. There was no information on either state’s website to indicate the status of a gun permit would […]

Ever get the feeling that Washington sees every issue as a hockey puck in a rink with no nets? There’s just a constant back-and-forth between two teams with big elbows and pointed fingers — but no real resolution. That’s how a battle over federal student loans played out in Congress last week — lots of […]

Overseas the Arab Spring is turning into the Arab Nightmare that everyone but the Obama administration always saw coming. At home the Obama Crew is fighting to socialize all of America’s health care system, strangling the energy industry with new emissions regulations, and being exposed for ordering federal employees to spy on each other. And […]