In 2008, Barack Obama made the claim he would “Fundamentally Transform America.”  I said the country’s in trouble when he made that claim, yet I was laughed at.  It would appear my revelation wasn’t all that misguided after all. Few knew what he was talking about when Mr. Obama made that claim.  But like most things that are cloaked in deception the light of truth eventually shines through. During Barack Obama’s eight-year reign as president the nature of his ideology was indeed revealed.  He repeatedly apologized to the world for what he thought was America’s indiscretions.  He did little if anything to bolster the economy and he was most assuredly a bystander in foreign policy.  It was...

You might say Donald Trump is getting a real education on how things work in Washington, D.C.  Since inauguration day, attacks on the President by the opposition from both parties and the media have been relentless and will probably be that way for some time to come. The Democrat party doesn’t seem to have any real direction for the country except for opposition to anything Mr. Trump does. The liberal media tends to portray the President as a babbling buffoon who stole the election with the help of the Russians.  But now days the truth doesn’t seem relative anymore in light of some stupid narrative they wanna portray as convincing. The Republican Party isn’t innocent either.  The...

None of us can claim perfection.  We are inherently flawed; that's what makes us human.  You might say we’re creatures of habit.  Our make-up is one of good traits, and others not so. You might think an addiction is something more serious than habit, but it’s not defined as such.   An addiction is a dependence on or commitment to a habit or practice.  We often hear about the addiction to drugs, pornography, or alcohol, but I stand on the premise that there’s a subtle addiction assaulting us daily.  My conjecture is this one is seldom debated, yet television can be a very real addiction in itself. When I was a tyke, programs like Leave it to Beaver, The Lone Ranger and Batman were downright...

Now that the election’s over, what have we learned from scouring over the statistics? Statistically, America's divided right down the middle philosophically and ideologically.  Half of the population felt the economy was in dire straits, the other half didn't care.  Half of the country believed hard work is admirable, but the other was convinced it was a four-letter word.  Half of America voted for love of country and the other half voted for love of self. In looking at the map of America, the election results state-by-state and county-by-county, it would appear the country’s more than three quarters red.  Democratic strongholds, blue areas, are densely populated areas on the southern tip...

I rarely take inspiration from watching a movie, but I did for this piece. In the 1983 film, “Mr. Mom,” Michael Keaton and Teri Garr play a couple battered by hard times.  Keaton’s character, Jack Butler, loses his job at the auto plant.  Garr’s character, Caroline, must then make a living for the family at the ad agency where she’s employed, and Jack is thrust into the role of taking care of the kids. Keaton’s character eventually gets his job back and his wife becomes a stay-at-home mom, but before that Caroline is given the task of coming up with a sales pitch to salvage the agency’s largest account, Schooner Tuna. Her marketing idea turns into a television commercial in the end.  In...

Donald Trump is now the 45th President of the United States.  One could conclude a majority of Americans were aware their land was being indoctrinated with an undesirable dogma. In his inauguration speech, Trump said: “We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people.  Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for many, many years to come.” For many Americans, George Orwell’s literary prophecy, highlighted in the book 1984, had an alarming distinction pertaining to government - “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face.” On the other hand,...

Nineteen states, including New York and California, rang in the New Year with an increase in the minimum wage. Massachusetts and Washington State now have the highest minimum wages in the country at $11.00 per hour. Voters in Arizona, Maine, Colorado and Washington approved wage increases on election day 2016.  Seven other states, Alaska, Florida, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, Ohio and South Dakota, have automatically raised their state’s minimum wage.  The other states seeing increases are Arkansas, Connecticut, Hawaii, Michigan and Vermont. Additional increases are slated for later in the year in Oregon, Washington, D.C., and Maryland. Workers and labor advocates argue the increases...

Ask yourself what Barack Obama has accomplished in eight years?  Would Obamacare come to mind?  Is it a divided country?  How about an economy that needs an IV?  Then there’s the thought of a weakened military of course.  Our enemies love us, and our allies can’t understand why. A majority of voters in November came to the conclusion America needs a New Year’s Resolution come January 20th. But what will Barack Obama’s legacy be?  It’s a given he will be the first African American president we’ve had, but will he also go down in history as the worst executive the United States ever let occupy the Oval Office? In 8 years, Barak Obama has obliterated the Democrat Party in record fashion.  In...

Time is an important thing.  The years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds of our lives tick away without much thought, few seem to notice.  Take a moment or two and stare at a clock with a secondhand, then ponder the direction of life.  Is television or a video game really all that important?  How should I spend my time?  What's deemed most important?  I'm sure thinking of others would be a far less priority if we dwelt on it. While running a machine at work the other day, I became intrigued with watching the seconds elapse on a digital readout screen.  The computer was tracking the process of producing a part and the time it took to do so.  Then the comparison of how my life is...

I had a dream, and in that dream my wife and I were standing in the midst of a never-ending field.  As far as we could see were neatly cultivated rows of seedlings that had sprouted to a height of six or eight inches.  The plants looked to be spaced about six or eight feet apart.  The rows were also about 8 feet apart, and as my wife and I walked the rows they seemed endless.  They extended as far as one could see to the North, South, East and West.  After several paces I cried out, “What is all this?”  A voice from above then said, “These are the seeds you’ve planted in people.”  With that I fell to my knees.  My wife placed her hand on my shoulder and began to sob. When I told my wife of...