The country has been divided on the notion of changing the Pledge of Allegiance for a while now.  I know… why don’t we just rewrite the whole thing, and water it down?
I infer preference to the flag of the United States of America (as long as the nation’s actions don’t violate my personal beliefs), and [...]

Or “The Curious Case of Two Birth Certificates”
Recent polls have suggested as many as one quarter of all American citizens aren’t quite ready to believe President Barack Obama was born in the United States of America.  Of those seventy-five million voters, a handful – by which I mean a very large handful – believe he [...]

You want to know what’s bothering me more and more each election cycle?  Really, it isn’t the politicians, and it isn’t the increasing attacks on each other’s integrity.  Those things are expected.  What’s really getting me are the people, the everyday Joes and Janes, who are so anti-the-other-party they claim they’ll leave the United States [...]

Okay, so maybe I was avoiding the Project today.  After that last post, yesterday…
See, I generally avoid politics, mainly because of the people involved.  I’ve made a couple small posts about political issues here, but mostly I tend to stay away.  It’s really just not worth all the heartache it causes.  But the United States [...]

There has been a whole lot of rhetoric tossed around this election cycle, and a whole bunch of catchphrases coined, typeset, and plastered across all sorts of posters, banners, and billboards.  Politicians have deified themselves, vilified their opponents, and basically tried to make the case for being the hero we need in a time of [...]

Shelli recently wrote a rather impassioned post for her blog, to which I responded.  I won’t detail what she said and how I responded – that can be read by visiting the link.  The truth is, I agree with her on some points, and disagree on others, but respect her right to believe as she [...]

I woke up this morning – well, no… that would be a lie.  I woke up this afternoon to the news of John McCain’s Vice Presidential pick.  You’ve probably already seen or read about it somewhere else, so I’m not going to make this a long, drawn-out discussion, but I do want to say that [...]

I’m a lefty, an ol’ southpaw.  I was fortunate enough to grow up with a family that didn’t discourage what came natural to me, in a school which wasn’t burdened with the antiquated notion that left-handers should be forced to use their right hands, so while I shoot both a bow and a gun with [...]

Let me preface this by saying that this post is not about flames or hate or anything you might expect.  I wanted this one, from the get-go, to have a different tenor than what you’ll normally hear. I’m hoping that people on all sides of the issue can understand just where I’m coming from.
So here [...]

As a teenager, I started telling people I would eventually run for President of the United States.  It was a joke, of course, but I made my intentions plain:  I would run for the highest office in the country’s government as soon as I was eligible.  That meant a number of different things, but really, [...]