Recent content by Mateo

I think this sign should be posted into every entry point into the country.

I agree that sometimes the shortest path to the truth is the best. However as rhetoric sways the addleminded, or as I remember from Geometry and Calculus, sometimes examining the path strips bare the underlying truth of things. Even better....there is the old adage that there are lies and lies...

Larry, One of the things dictators use a lot is image control, whether left or right wing. One side appeals to the ego of the personage at the top who becomes blinded by the adulation that he cannot see the forest for the trees. The other side appeals to the darker side of the people who are...

Victimhood is quite popular now...even when the tide is going in their favor.

Think of it as a rebate...though like you I would rather pay the lower price or taxes for that matter.

I was at Ft Dix doing reserve duty when it was announced. It was a shocker.

I like the idea of a shark filled moat.

What does he suppose is the meaning of "opposition party " Does he in his Harvard educated brain think this is going to be a Duma or rubber stamp congress?

This is on par with Clinton's cruise missile attacks .......deja vu , eh ?

Might be his version of "Socking Robin "

I suggest Koolahwe...the Navy uses it as a gunnery range. Can't think of a better place.

Your points are very valid. After all, it was the "best and brightest" who got us into too many of the messes that we are still paying for today. Unfortunately, too many of us bought into the fixation that a college education was the doorway to a better life, myself included. What should have...

I think these were just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. There had to be those in the know from the ground level to the top, but these are more or less the more immediately expendable of the horde. In the 70's when the Marcos had dictatorial control of the Philippines, Imelda had the...

We are fighting with the IRS for taxes they say were owed the last 2 years for my mother who is danger of losing the home she shared with my father since the mid 60's and I was raised in. She is in her 80's, but apparantly the IRS is more concerned with the miniscule amount she owes in...