Americans for Reason and Truth

16 days and 24 billion dollars later, the Government will resume its operations and the public debts will be paid. The deal struck by Cong...

I teach Civics....more specifically, Advanced Placement Government and Politics to High School students. I teach them how to pass a test w...

Our Founding Fathers had differences that would make today's disagreements seem mild. Some believed in the ownership of human beings as...

One of my favorite all time movies is "Office Space". I can recite the dialogue and never stop laughing and now, more than ever,...

If a person were innocently walking down the street and you threw a rock deliberately at their head and hit him/her, you would be inflictin...

Third world nations generally do not accept the will of the people. They tend to have corrupt governments and leaders who line their own po...

Jimmy Stewart played Senator Smith in a great Hollywood production about the little guy, in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington". It i...

Took the Summer off to refresh and retool and now I am compelled to blog some more. I continue to be offended and embarrassed by the inepti...

GONE FISHING BACK IN AUGUST

Rand Paul's name comes up a lot these days. The junior Senator from Kentucky is a libertarian, who rails against Government for its int...

The Republican party will stop at nothing to embarrass and defile President Obama. The resounding victory this past November notwithstandi...

Still cranky over their devistating loss to Obama, the Republican party is basking in the glow of the Obama missteps as he starts his secon...

How many times have we heard in the last two months that polls indicate a 90% support of sensible background checks before gun purchases? ...

My posts have become more infrequent, not because I have given up, but because my anger and frustration mounts every day as I watch the Leg...

The Constitution of the United States is totally clear and unambiguous. For a bill to become a law, it takes a majority of both houses of ...

Forget the fact that the House hasn't even taken up a gun bill yet and that it will probably not look like the Senate bill. Forget the ...

As the Republicans continue to autopsy their party, there remains a strong evangelical base that loves to preach values. They don't be...

Before I blog, it was just reported that the Colorado Prisons chief was fatally shot as he opened his door. Anyhow, the overwhelming major...

The President has been consistently misrepresented and his views not even known by many of his adversaries. He has been criticized for not...

Today, we saw an unexpected but welcome decline in the unemployment rate as well as a job creation number that was higher than thought even...