When a Nation Goes Mad
It's been both a blessing and a curse that America's knowledge of the French Revolution has been so sparse. Even English and Germans of the 19th Century couldn't agree as to what this event...
Survival, Courage and Common Sense in Our New Cocooned Worlds
It's proof that practicing psychologists with PhD's at the end of their names are only in it for the money if they don't spend at least a few hours of study a week on...
The American Political Class, God help me….
God help me...
...but every time I see a GOP member of the political class, with a few exceptions (Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Jim Jordan...just a handful) refuse to speak or take a position on...
Our System of Federalism and the Mess it Sometimes Creates
The notion of federalism is that the Constitution grants the states the leeway to set up their own laboratories about governing that do not conflict with the rights it guarantee to the People, (Art...
How Things Work
After spending 20 years learning how things worked on the upper floors of government (military) bureaucracy and Fortune 500 corporate management I spent another 20 years at the other end of the economic and...
Where is Matt? After a Decade’s Slide into Darkness (Revised)
Matt Harding was born in 1976, a Gen-Xer (1965-1980). That Generation is just as apt to cling to the old ways and standards of their parents (Baby Boomers, 1942-1964) as they are to become utterly nouveau, knowing little, if anything about the shoulders they...