Is it time States use a little known, but previously used, Constitutional Check to stop Obamacare?
By Dr. Harold Pease Presently 17 states have chosen not to setup insurance exchanges with respect to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Law, commonly cited as Obamacare, primarily because they fear that doing so would bankrupt their state...
The Real Reason Mitt Romney Lost the Election. He looked too much like Obama.
By Dr. Harold Pease In driving to and from Utah late July and spending a couple of weeks in what are known as “Mormon” communities, I expected to find Nevada and Utah littered with pro-Romney signs and didn’t. In fact, I was hard pressed to find...
Freedoms Cost
The following is the contribution of a young student of mine. It leaves me hope when our youth have such wisdom so early. Kenneth Tack has given me permission to share his piece with my readers. He has captured the essence of freedom through our...
A Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer
By Dr. Harold Pease Some may not know how Thanksgiving Day became our first national holiday, nor its importance as a day of “public thanksgiving and prayer.” One of the very first acts of the new Congress was to pass a law requesting President...
Thanks Plymouth and Jamestown for Placing us on the Road to Prosperity
By Dr. Harold Pease This Thanksgiving Day we think of the Pilgrims, abundant foods, and giving thanks. Few remember the starving times when the first year after landing about half died, largely of famine. Harvests were not bountiful in 1620, 1621...
The “Hunger Games” vote is over but the Presidential Election is not.
By Dr. Harold Pease For months the media has showcased their gladiators and we have been spectators with load applause to every twist and turn of political events in the 2012 presidential elections. The people, programed by their television sets,...
The Media “Elect” the President
By Dr. Harold Pease Political scientists have long known that the first election in any presidential contest is the medias. They decide who gets coverage, how they are covered, and just as importantly, who does not. Other factors too weigh in, such...
Democracies Breed and Feed Special Interest Groups
By Dr. Harold Pease Viewing past presidential elections, and the one we are now in, it becomes very obvious to me that the winner will be the one who gathers the most special interest groups by promising them favors in return for their vote, often...
America’s Clandestine War in Africa
By Dr. Harold Pease A year ago last October, I wrote of President Barack Obama’s clandestine operation in central Africa called Operation Lightning Thunder, involving 100 U.S. military “advisers,” sent by the President to help capture the allusive...