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LEE’S SUMMIT, FEBRUARY 12, 2013 – Let me start by giving some background to the letter to the Editor I received recently. The topic was driven by two news articles, one in the Gardner News on January 24, 2012 entitled “Johnson County Sheriff Denning opposes additional gun control laws” by Danedri Thompson. In the article [...]
The system of gun control is broken and needs to be demolished and rewritten. Violence has only risen as the hordes march to buy their weapons with reckless abandon, and the politicians in Washington continue to threaten people’s right to bear arms. I propose a radically different solution that allows individuals to safely own weapons [...]
LEE’S SUMMIT, JANUARY 13, 2013 – In a surprise move the Obama White House rejects a petition to build a Death Star due to its budget estimated at $850 quadrillion. The White House stated “the cost was simply too high in a time of tight budgets.” Moreover, “the administration does not support blowing up planets”. [...]
LEE’S SUMMIT, JANUARY 11, 2013 – Just when you think no one can be truly that out of touch with reality; someone is eager to prove you wrong. Some of the most common and most powerful prescription painkillers on the market will be restricted sharply in the emergency rooms at New York City’s 11 public [...]
LEE’S SUMMIT, JANUARY 1, 2013 – Happy New Year to Everyone. Violence has been around since the dawn of time, since Cain and Abel of biblical times, and Hollywood has graphically brought that violence into our collective psyche since the early 1900’s. The violence in movies goes back to the early days with the Western [...]
LEE’S SUMMIT, DECEMBER 7, 2012 – Washington is abuzz about “Sticking It” to the top two percent. Obama refuses an $800 billion revenue increase “it’s too small, and the numbers don’t add up” because he will stand steadfast on increasing taxes for the top two percent – as if that would fix it all. In [...]
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012, WHITE HOUSE ROSE GARDEN – The following is the full transcript of the speech given by President Obama about the deaths in Benghazi Libya. The highlights were added for emphasis. 10:43 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Every day, all across the world, American diplomats and civilians work tirelessly to advance the [...]
LEE’S SUMMIT, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 – It was eleven years ago this morning that the world changed for all of us. In the early days we all united behind the grief we felt for all those who died that day. As I drove to work this morning I remembered walking in to work that morning [...]
LEE’S SUMMIT, SEPTEMBER 9, 2012 – It takes a great deal of work to get the information necessary to understand the Unemployment numbers; but since numbers matter I went looking and want you to be able to do the same so you can find the version of the unemployment numbers you want to track, and [...]
LEE’S SUMMIT, AUGUST 25, 2012 – On July 20, 1969 I was 11-years old living in Arenales in Buenos Aires Argentina – The United States was not yet in my future – I laid in bed and watched the old black and white TV with ghostly images of Neil Armstrong reaching the bottom of the [...]