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Martin DyckmanDecember 3, 2015

“Another day in the United States of America. Another day of gunfire, panic and fear. This time in the city of San Bernardino in California, where a civic building was apparently under attack.” That is the voice, tinged with sorrow and shock, of a BBC reporter describing yet another day in America. Just another day […]

Guest AuthorDecember 3, 2015

I have never owned a gun. I’m certain there’s no personal God who hears and answers our prayers. So naturally I found the New York Daily News headline – “God isn’t fixing this” – intriguing. Some editors there apparently decided to issue a collective scream after the slaughter in San Bernardino on Wednesday and the […]

Marc YachtNovember 18, 2015

Being a strong imperial power offers no guarantee of continued existence. Ask any Mayan whose empire survived 3,500 years. They sit alongside the Roman, British, Spanish and Mongol empires. The French faced the revolution with Madame Defarge knitting while the People’s Court sentenced French nobility to death. One cannot ignore the Russian revolution and the […]

Diane RobertsNovember 16, 2015

For reasons that do us no credit, Americans find it easy to insult the French. Perhaps we hate their freedoms – their freedom to live for something other than money, their freedom to enjoy food and sex minus 400 years of Protestant guilt. We call the French “cheese-eating surrender monkeys;” we sneer at John Kerry […]

Diane RobertsNovember 15, 2015

For reasons that do us no credit, Americans find it easy to insult the French. Perhaps we hate their freedoms – their freedom to live for something other than money, their freedom to enjoy food and sex minus 400 years of Protestant guilt. We call the French “cheese-eating surrender monkeys;” we sneer at John Kerry […]

Ryan RayOctober 13, 2015

Rep. Greg Steube called a columnist’s bluff on Tuesday, filing a bill to allow guns into public hearings at the Florida Capitol. Scott Maxwell of the Orlando Sentinel wrote last week that Florida lawmakers were “gun-shy cowards” for proposing to allow guns on college campuses, but not inside the Legislature. “Republican House members have advanced two gun bills: one […]

Diane RobertsOctober 7, 2015

In case there’s anyone left who thinks ¿Jeb? Bush is a fine man running a fine campaign for president, I give you his remarks after the latest mass shooting, this one in Oregon: “I don’t think that more government is necessarily the answer to this,” he said. “I think we need to reconnect ourselves with […]

Diane RobertsOctober 6, 2015

In case there’s anyone left who thinks ¿Jeb? Bush is a fine man running a fine campaign for president, I give you his remarks after the latest mass shooting, this one in Oregon: “I don’t think that more government is necessarily the answer to this,” he said. “I think we need to reconnect ourselves with […]

Jac VerSteegOctober 6, 2015

Let’s discuss Jeb Bush’s “Stuff happens” comment and his campaign’s reaction to the reaction. Jeb was in South Carolina, being tossed softballs by the moderator at a conservative gathering. During a discussion about Second Amendment rights, Jeb said, “We’re in a difficult time in our country,” but “I don’t think more government necessarily is the […]

Jac VerSteegOctober 5, 2015

Let’s discuss Jeb Bush’s “Stuff happens” comment and his campaign’s reaction to the reaction. Jeb was in South Carolina, being tossed softballs by the moderator at a conservative gathering. During a discussion about Second Amendment rights, Jeb said, “We’re in a difficult time in our country,” but “I don’t think more government necessarily is the […]

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The University of Central Florida's Resiliency Command Center (UCF)

Martin Dyckman: Insanity fueled by fraud keeps on killing

Tom O’Hara: Pray, ask God to make politicians impose sane gun control

Dr. Marc J. Yacht: The mighty always have fallen. Always.

Diane Roberts: Stop the French-bashing; we owe them

Diane Roberts: Stop the French-bashing; we owe them

Greg Steube files bill to allow guns into legislative meetings

Diane Roberts: ¿Jeb? Bush comes up numb and dumb again

Diane Roberts: ¿Jeb? Bush comes up numb and dumb again

Jac Wilder VerSteeg: When Jeb Bush opens his mouth, “stuff happens”

Jac Wilder VerSteeg: When Jeb opens his mouth, 'stuff happens'