Tenure can be Deadly

Who knew that not receiving the coveted “tenure” at a university could lead to a shooting rampage?  Evidently, Amy Bishop,  a professor of Biology, shot three of her colleagues at the University of Alabama at Huntsville (sounds like she didn’t like the

Catching or Slaying the Bear

The Washington Examiner asks about the Obama team, “How could such smart people do so many stupid things?” Here is an excerpt: The same people who directed the campaign that defeated Hillary Clinton and routed John McCain, a campaign that raised

Do Passenger Trains Make Sense for Ohio?

Evidently, Ohio has been “awarded” $400 million from the Federal Government to build passenger train service that covers Cincinnati-Dayton-Columbus-Cleveland.  As expected, the local media in Dayton is strongly in favor of the spending and urges its readers to ignore the

Our Economic Challenges

While I don’t typically look to George Will for lessons on economics, he has a recent editorial that does a nice job explaining the challenges that the O’bama administration has placed on our country.  A few excerpts: Today, Americans are

A Rough Economy

When Rush Limbaugh came out early in 2009 and said that “he hopes Obama fails…”, I thought to myself that I also can’t see the Manchurian Marxist Moslem succeeding, but I don’t want to live in economic misery for the next 4

The Difference in 100 Years

This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine! The year is 1909… One hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes.    Here are some statistics for the Year 1909 ***************************** The average life expectancy was 47 years.