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Walk on By
A meditation on narcotics in Orange County There is world here in Southern California that exists under the radar of most people. In a land of wealth and privilege and hope there is a dark underside...
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Is That All There Is? Our existential crisis
Several hundred feet above me I can hear the clatter of the news helicopters flying mindlessly above the scene of an incident that was over 2 hours ago where some guy who lost his job shot a pistol...
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We now know where the buck doesn’t stop
We found out yesterday that “systemic failures” were responsible for the death of United States Ambassador Christopher Stevens on September 11 of this year. Somehow “systemic failures” pulled the...
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Firewall – thoughts on how to reduce gun violence
The nation is still reeling from the Newtown, CT school massacre. Many of the funerals were held last week, and the national dialogue has become “he said – she said”. There is intransigence and wishful...
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Was he taking his meds?
Depakote. Zyprexa. Risperadol, Abilify, Haldol, risperidone, olanzapine and an alphabet soup of other names of various drugs are used in the treatment of schizophrenia. There are others for ADD...
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Hillary dances around Benghazi
Today we have the spectacle of the Secretary of State emoting on cue while saying nothing of substance regarding the murder of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya on September 11 of last by Islamic...
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Obama’s Way versus the American Way
On the way home this afternoon from running errands, my wife told me about a friend of hers who attended a benefit last night. A local 16 year old has a rare form of Muscular Dystrophy which is almost...
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Stephen King does comedy
We were blessed by a by a new novel from Stephen King this week; one you can purchase for only $0.99 on Amazon. He calls semi automatic firearms “weapons of mass destruction” echoing the language of...
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The President’s New Policy – A Fable of the Modern Age
Gather round, children, and I will tell you the story of the President’s New Policy. Once upon a time, there was a vain president in far off Washington whose only worry in life was to make grand...
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Dear Mr. President, please stop BS’ing us on AGW
Yahoo today ran photos from across Europe this morning of the effects of early Spring snow. Britain, France, Germany and much of the rest of Europe have been faced with some of the most snow and cold...
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One sentence that captures the Left’s position on Abortion
In an article in this morning’s Washington Post entitled “Will Kermit Gosnell change the abortion debate?” , author Juliet Eilperin captures the Left’s position with pellucid clarity. She writes: “Can...
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Obama’s Middle Finger to America
Since when has an Administration given the finger to virtually the entire American People? And since when has there been an almost complete silence on the issue by the media? The President badly...
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Walking the Camino – Six Ways to Santiago – Newport Beach Film Festival – Review
The Camino de Santiago has been one of the sacred pilgrimages of Christianity since the latter part of the first Millennium. Pilgrims travel the path, which starts wherever they embark on the journey,...
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The Smoking Gun in Benghazi
We are still being fed a narrative by the media on Benghazi. The problem runs much deeper than they are willing to admit. First we were told it was a protest against a video. Then, after weeks of lies,...
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Benghazi & the FBI wiretaps – the connection
This morning, the Washington Post reported that the FBI wiretap investigation of the Associated Press was initiated because of leaks of classified information from the government. In the words of the...
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The LA Times disconnect
Reading today’s Los Angeles Times one would not realize there were three major scandals consuming the Obama Administration in perhaps the greatest political meltdown in our country’s history. We can...
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A Venn Chart of the Administration’s Scandals
It is getting hard to keep up with the sludgefest coming out of Washington DC recently. Yesterday it was David Plouffe claiming the IRS’s targeting of conservatives was not political while calling...
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Losing face with China Obama style
In Asia, “face” is everything. Standards of conduct and ritual are strictly defined, as they are in the diplomatic world. Image is managed to a precise degree. Yesterday, Michelle Obama’s office...
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A Simple Proposition
This morning the debate over the NSA’s PRISM program is all over the internet and news. It has entered the general national conversation as we debate privacy in the age of data mining and the...
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Iran is winning in Syria and we are screwing it up
If you haven’t noticed, Hezbollah has changed the tide of the Syrian civil war. Their troops with the Government forces took back Qusair, a key junction for supplying the rebel forces. More than 50...
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