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"Selecting a president is, more than ever, a life and death business, and a news organization that consciously injects itself into the process, as CNN did by hosting Wednesday’s debate, incurs a special responsibility to conduct itself in a dispassionate and, most of all, disinterested fashion. When one considers CNN’s [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Fraud Watch, Media, Politics at 6:30 PM UTC
Limited Government is the political condition necessary for Individual Liberty to exist, in any meaningful sense. Zero-sum perfectly describes the interaction between our first two cores values. As one increases the other will decrease proportionally. As students of history and the human condition, the Founder’s knew political power tends to gravitate to the [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Core Values at 12:05 PM UTC
The Supreme Court has agreed to review whether "the protocols used in administering lethal injections violate the Eighth Amendment, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment," according to my local paper. With any luck, the Court will quickly decide in favor of the method used in 36 states, and we can get back to [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Cultural Insanity, Death Penalty, Politics at 5:35 PM UTC
Though the United States is less than 220 years old, it enjoys a heritage rich in national achievement. America’s combination of political, economic, military, and social advances and accomplishments are unmatched in world history. The nation’s record of excellence did not materialize automatically or as the result of luck, random factors and forces [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Core Values at 3:57 PM UTC
National and International track and field governing bodies have decided to make an example of Marion Jones, the former superstar female sprinter and long jumper. Ms. Jones admitted using steroids in 2000 and 2001. Revealing a more troublesome transgression, at least from a legal standpoint, she also confessed to lying to federal investigators [...]
This past April, Catarino Piedra was working in his popular pizza shop when three punks attempted to rob him at gun point. Fearing for his life and the safety of his wife and three kids, Mr. Piedra asked Messrs. Smith and Wesson for help, killing the recidivistic gunman at close range. Our hero [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Cultural Insanity, Second Amendment at 7:36 PM UTC
It’s not hard to believe Barry Bonds took steroids. Changes in his physical appearance are difficult to explain apart from the use of illegal substances. Besides suddenly adding 30 to 40 pounds of muscle, Barry’s hat size went up three notches, growth not likely the result of improved diet and exercise alone. [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Sports at 5:14 PM UTC
Pundits across the political spectrum agree the Republican Party is in big trouble. An embarrassing string of ethics scandals proved to be the proverbial straw, breaking the back of Republican congressional majorities in both Houses after a twelve year run. Voters were already disenchanted with a poorly managed war, drunken sailor spending, and [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Politics at 4:34 PM UTC
For the past two years at least, Iran has been supplying lethal weaponry to our enemies in Iraq, the most potent ammunition being "explosively formed penetrators" capable of defeating the heaviest armored U.S. vehicles. Hurling a fist-sized chunk of molten copper, the weapon is credited with killing dozens if not hundreds of American [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as War in Iraq at 3:27 PM UTC
"California deficit balloons." "$10 billion budget shortfall comes amid slowing economy." Headlines from California’s recent past, when Governor Gray Davis nearly spent California into receivership? With one significant change, these banners were printed in 2002. Immediately after being re-elected Governor Davis announced $35 billion of red ink, leading inevitably to his recall the [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Economics, Politics at 12:57 PM UTC