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Beware A Government Of Fear

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) One of my Fox colleagues recently sent me an email attachment of a painting of the framers signing the Constitution of the United States. Except in this version, George Washington — who presided at the Constitutional Convention — looks at James Madison — who was the scrivener at the Convention — and says, “None of this counts if people get sick, right?” In these days of state governors issuing daily decrees purporting ...

A Glass Half Full Of Poison

This virus turmoil brings to my mind a character named Turk. He was a regular in my father’s saloon. Turk always made us laugh. But he used his humor to camouflage his criticisms. To hide the barbs. Yes, he entertained us. But after a while you had to realize something. That while he deployed humor, he criticized most everything. He shot down any and every positive idea or event. His bottom line was that he was against most everything. In an entertaining way. He comes to mind because we have so many entertainers who insult the president. Over his handling of the virus situation. ...

How To Handle Insurance, Changes After Being Laid Off

Question: What about insurance and other changes now that I just was laid off and I am over 65? Answer: Life is changing for many of us right now. All of us hope to some day retire, but many of us are having to address that life change sooner than we ever expected. You said that you are over 65, so you may already have Medicare. If you don’t already have Medicare, you should consider signing up for Medicare Part A and B. This sign up process requires paperwork to be completed and turned into the Social Security Administration (SSA). There are two forms to complete: you complete ...

Chutzpah: ADL Wants A Federal Bailout

When I think of “essential” workers in America, the smear merchants of the Anti-Defamation League are at the bottom of the barrel. For decades, they’ve demonized conservatives and Christians as agents of “hate” and treated our very existence as incitements to violence. The ADL’s manufactured outrage machine has broadened its target list to anyone remotely critical of Israel for any reason, President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, “America First” college students, innocuous hand gestures, cartoon frogs and anyone who dares to think or write that ...

Going Viral: Publicizing This Pandemic Gets Us Nowhere

By now the tropes have become almost typical. Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus, drumming up irrational fears in the media, and causing an economic meltdown, all in hopes of bringing down the president. It has even been floated that climate change activists are actively hyping the spread of the coronavirus because they believe that a decline in manufacturing will reverse climate change. For example, the air quality in Wuhan, a major Chinese manufacturing center where the COVID-19 outbreak first occurred, allegedly improved by over 20% during the slowdown caused by the virus. ...

The Good News Is We Are Going To Get Through This

Corona virus is the biggest story in the world. We, in the United States, are likely going to have a hard time in the near future, as shut-downs and restrictions strangle the economy. We, however, are starting off from a fairly high level of economic prosperity. Many other nations are not so fortunate. The hardships that many people in less-developed countries face will be magnified if food production and distribution is significantly disrupted. With that said, we and they are going to get through this thing, not necessarily unscathed, but through it just the same. We will look back at ...