Are the annexation wars about to begin again, now that Tucson has a new mayor? If so, good, sometimes it takes a war to solve a problem. Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, as all Tucson mayors have done for nearly 20 years, mentioned in his state of the city speech this week the importance of getting more [...]
The Second Amendment, and the way it has recently been interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, makes most bills that attempt to bar or inhibit Americans from possessing guns futile. On the flip side, the resistance of many Americans to surrendering to a totally armed populace has made it difficult to pass new laws that [...]
The President of the United States can’t fix what’s wrong with America. You wouldn’t know that from listening to the presidential campaign rhetoric from the Republicans who want to replace the current POTUS or from the POTUS himself. They all sound like the President is a dictator who can do wondrous things by mere decree. [...]
A Norwegian TV show called “Uncle America” is working it’s way across the country telling the story of Norwegians in American, namely Norwegian Americans related to famous Norwegians. But the show’s hosts are also doing a travelogue of off-beat America, kind of a Norwegian version of Ricky Gervais’ new show “An Idiot Abroad.” Here’s the [...]
Is Tucson any different one year after the horrific shooting that killed six and wounded 13? Not really. How Tucson has “changed” is the most common rhetorical question asked by media last week in their retrospectives leading up to the commemoration of the one-year anniversary of the shooting. Many of the reporters and editorialists writing [...]
I was on vacation last week and missed a bunch of stuff. And in keeping with a New Year’s resolution to write a blog post a day, here’s my thoughts on last week’s mail center protest. I wonder if any of the liberals protesting for maintaining a Tucson postal center in the name of jobs [...]
The Tucson Unified School District board will meet tomorrow to determine what to do about last week’s ruling by an administrative law judge that its Mexican American Studies program violates state law. It would be wise to do away with the overall Ethnic Studies program and instead come up with some other way to effectively [...]
