ISMs and ISTs

As we free American citizens celebrate the 250th declaration of our independence from Great Britain, it is appropriate we recall that July 4, 1776 singular event directly led to the establishment of our representative democracy republic based on a constitution. Today, however, our form of government is threatened from within. America’s numerous mediums of communications […]

If you can’t say anything…

It is unfortunate that agenda-driven entities and all too politically enmeshed individuals prey upon the unknowing rather than enlighten the gullible. The decade-long, incessant, repeated, blanket, and deliberate use of select nouns as adjectives directed at Republican Donald J. Trump affects all Americans. Let us apply some of those oft-used descriptors to other presidents.             […]

History Repeats

            It is often stated history tends to repeat itself. One example is President John Adams and his son President John Quincy Adams. They remained the only father-son presidents until George H.W. Bush and his son George W. Bush. In another instance, Grover Cleveland was the only president to serve two separated terms in office, […]

U. S. Secret Service, Error Prone?

Once again, the U.S. Secret Service’s ability to protect the president is questionable. Various congressional committees will soon conduct inquisitions. Representatives and senators will stand tall, pop out their chests, pontificate, and strut about like peafowl only to lay blame. We the people will watch another dog and pony show. The pre-coordinated, pre-rehearsed play’s expenditures […]

Magazine Highlight

The Fall 2025 edition of “Kentucky Alumni” magazine highlighted my fourth book “The Third Party Candidate: In a Divided States of America” on page 55 in “The Bookshelf” section. Kentucky alums, undergrads, graduate students, PhD candidates, and professors check it out. Everyone else, visit my website https://allwetpublishing.com for details about the book, to order a […]

Ain’t America Grand?

            In today’s United States, a sixty-five year old man is at liberty to self-identify as a sixteen-year-old girl. Across the nation within private, public, and non-profit sectors, some decision-makers agree with and support that man’s actualization. In a few of  those instances, “she,” with completely intact and fully functional male genitalia, is eligible to […]

THE  DOGE  REPORT:  EPILOGUE

DOGE confirmed the suspicions and validated the beliefs of many Americans, that the United States government is a self-absorbed, self-serving, perpetual motion, behemoth. Its Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches became dense, thick, corpulent, and authoritarian. Like all monsters, the bureaucracy got bigger and stronger which necessitated the consumption of more and more — money. There […]

Code of Ethics for Government Service

The U.S. House Resolution stated, “Resolved by the House of Representatives {the Senate concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that the following Code of Ethics should be adhered to by all Government employees, including office holders:” The U.S. Senate, by unanimous consent, “understands and intends that this resolution apply to every servant […]

THE  DOGE  REPORT:  PRESS REPORTING

Depending on the medium and sources by which one receives one’s news, there is discussion whether or not the reporting of DOGE’s actions and effects is accurate. “Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a hundred thousand bayonets.” — Napoleon Bonaparte* “If the government wishes some fact to remain unknown, almost all major […]

What is an American?

As we celebrate the 249th year from when British colonial subjects, who called themselves Americans, declared their independence from both king and country, might we ask ourselves, “What does it mean to be an American?” We are, as written in that July 4, 1776 document, “created equal” and bestowed by our “Creator with certain unalienable […]