Twenty-five years ago on September 11, 2001, as I was arriving at the offices and studios of KTBB to go to work, Garth Maier, then KTBB’s News & Program Director, was vigorously – almost frantically – waving at me to come into the control room to see what he was seeing on the TV monitor. What soon became clear was that we, and indeed the entire world, were seeing in a terrible instant that freedom...
Time was Democrats and Republicans in America largely agreed that the Soviet Union and its puppet states were de facto prisons.
The heartland folks know that America isn’t perfect. But they also know that America is good.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
Socialism’s dismal and bloody record notwithstanding, according to recent polls, as many as two thirds of Democrats now think it’s a good idea.
It is simultaneously astonishing and horrifying that a person with a resume that will fit comfortably on one side of a cocktail napkin is now in charge of a city of 300,000 employees, a budget of $120 billion and responsibility for the safety and welfare of more than eight million souls.
Capitalism and socialism have both been around long enough to have created a record. And that record is unmistakable.
Though the American Declaration of Independence was published in 1776 and the Bastille was stormed 13 years later in 1789, on the scale of the grand sweep of history, the events are essentially concurrent. But there the similarity ends.
Even though information on any topic is readily available with the tap of a finger, the American populace is both less informed and simultaneously more misinformed than at any time in the last century.
Trump did, Tuesday night, what presidents are hired to do – call the country to be its best.
Bright-eyed lefties look at America’s wealth and they say to themselves, “There’s plenty to go around. Let’s spread it.”
Bernie Sanders, an avowed socialist, is seriously challenging frontrunner Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party nomination for president. Sanders is particularly popular among young voters – those we now call “millennials.”