Tag Archives: L.A. Times

Military’s Holocaust Hypocrisy

As a boy in the ’50s I watched “World At War” narrated by Walter Cronkite.  I was forever marked emotionally seeing the films of the liberated concentration camps.  As a teenaged military history buff I studied that war to understand … Continue reading

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Forget the Zombies! Beware the Atomic Robots.

No one who knows me would be surprised to know I’m an “Old Spice” man (as opposed to a “Dapper Dan Man” – I don’t have a use for that).  I’ve been using Old Spice as long as I’ve been shaving – nigh … Continue reading

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The Great Lincoln – Kerry Debate

In case you missed it there was a debate about America as a symbol to the world between former president of the United States Abraham Lincoln and current Secretary of State John Kerry. Mr. Kerry:  ” I will make my argument … Continue reading

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Fiscal “Cliff” Solutions – Remember the Grace Report? “It’s the Fraud, Waste and Abuse, Stupid!”

If bandwagon broadcasters had focused on the actual cause of our national financial fiasco – Fraud, Waste and Abuse – rather than the beltway spin of a “Fiscal Cliff” sequestration need not have happened.  Even now pundits broach the subject with the timidity of a … Continue reading

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Rush Limbaugh’s Limited Lexicon

John Adams once said “How can I reason with a man who is unread?”  I’ve listened to Rush Limbaugh since the mid-‘80s at Ft. Bragg, N.C.  I turned the volume way up in my ’68 Camaro during lunch specifically to … Continue reading

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Immigration Reform de Facto 9/11

         We need go no further than 9/11 (2001) to realize that even when 2,074 American citizens are murdered Congress will dissemble and obfuscate but do nothing really effective to solve the illegal alien problem.  My sister in Atlanta recently met a Hispanic man … Continue reading

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“Friendly Fire” Agent’s Death is More Benghazi BS

The FBI’s historically high reputation for impeccable integrity has been repeatedly besmirched in the last few decades.  Since the death of J. Edgar Hoover the Bureau has never regained that level of public trust.  First it was the FBI cover-up … Continue reading

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Stop This Pretend War…NOW!!!

If someone had told me I would be making a statement like this from the time I graduated boot camp at MCRD Parris Island in 1969 until our money-saturated, beltway bandit cycloptic response to Afghanistan and Iraq, I would have knocked … Continue reading

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Obama: Ceasar’s Narcissism

It is a rare person who does not become proud and haughty when assuming high office, positions of popularity or authority.  I remember reading an LA Times article back in the late ’70s comparing the narcissm of politicians and movie … Continue reading

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Batman Is Guano

Folks, I admit I’m old.  I was raised on comic books in the ’50s.  I remember spending hot summer afternoons sitting on the floor of the air conditioned Rexhall Drug Store (we had none in our public housing apartment) next to … Continue reading

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