My new co-authored column, Passport Rules Unfair to Child Support Debtors (San Antonio Express-News, 9/8/07), criticizes the new child support/passport rules which are so overwhelmingly popular among the editorial boards of our nation's newspapers. The column is a response to the Express-News' recent editorial “Federal law catching up with deadbeat parents†(8/23/07). I commend...
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Sad Self-Delusion
Every time a man tells me, whether in person or via e-mail or on a radio show, that he wears the pants at home, I laugh to myself. I know that the opposite is true: he’s engaged in a sad game of self-delusion.
Most men refuse to understand or believe or learn that they...
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Liberal-Progressive-socialism caused today’s mess, not matter how far back into history we go. Commenting on Mr. Slater Bakhtavar’s essay, Mr. James Veverka states, “Nonsense. Carter was a fool regarding several things but the primary cause of the deep problems of the middle east is the effects of colonialism and the partitions after WW1.” Mr....
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Author’s note: This was written in the immediate aftermath of the infamous attack by Osama bin Laden’s al-Queda Muslim extremists in 2001. It was published in The Caribbean Express, a newsmagazine that is no longer in existence. I find it appropriate now because we are approaching the anniversary of this terrible event. The cliché...
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"What opponents of the second amendment have never understood is that the prime benefit of the right to bear arms is now and always has been reaped without a shot being fired. The main benefit does not lie in the occasional person who shoots an attacker in self-defense. It doesn't lie in the many...
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My son is not exactly the hardest or most diligent worker in the world--"lethargic" would be a more appropriate description. Even though he's almost 15, it's still something of a hassle to get him to get ready for school in the mornings or to get his stuff together and get out of the car....
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by Jim Kouri, CPP The government of Iraq has failed to meet 15 of 18 benchmarks contained in the US Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 2007. The Act requires the Government Accountability Office to report on the status of the achievement of these benchmarks. Consistent with GAO’s...
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