DENNIS PATRICK: FEAR OF THE PHONY DEFAULT
Think about it. The United States, for all the media hype, is not about to default on its financial obligation, that is, the debt to its creditors. No default on…...
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Monday, July 11, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: A SKIN CANCER PRIMER
Cancer. Such a powerful word. The very mention of cancer raises concern and alarm. The emotional power of this single word conjures thoughts of deadly malignancies and interminable suffering. …...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: WHEN DEBT BECOMES MONEY
I kicked off my summer reading program with “The Creature from Jekyll Island” by G. Edward Griffin, Appleton, WI: American Opinion (1994). Seasons change but my reading never stops. …...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: THOMAS JEFFERSON, A LEFT WINGER PROGRESSIVE?
Our Founding Fathers collectively possessed incredible wisdom: Ben Franklin, John Adams, John Jay, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and so many more. Where did they acquire such knowledge and wisdom…...
Thursday, June 09, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: BIRTH OF A GREAT CONSERVATIVE
If left to the Republican establishment, the November 2010 election would not have been a blowout but just another humdrum affair. No electoral upset would have taken place. Fortunately, the…...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: “WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE…”
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE…” So reads a line in Coleridge’s “The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.” The mariner who shot an albatross (symbol of good fortune) brought misfortune to his…...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: CHUCKLING OVER EARTH DAY
Just as global warming morphed into a hoax, so too has Earth Day embarrassingly atrophied into a laughing stock, a joke, a metaphor for liberal silliness.Only a few years ago…...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: AT LAST - THE BIRDS OF SPRING
At last, the sights and sounds of spring arrive. For some, the webcam video of the eagles nest at Decorah, Iowa, might be the epitome of bird watching. The…...
Thursday, May 12, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: WORLD OF GREAT MUSIC
Time for a time out. News, as entertainment, sells. News stories stir and excite emotions of sadness, grief and terror as the 24-hour news cycles of the cable news…...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: NORTH DAKOTA’S CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS
A few years ago North Dakota faced a dire situation. Towns were dying. Legislators were beside themselves watching their “base” shrink. What was a senator, like former senator Byron Dorgan,…...
Thursday, April 21, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: BILLIONS AND BILLIONS THAT CONGRESS COULD SAVE
Congress has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. In its addiction to pork, congress displays an insatiable desire to spend other people’s money -- and even more money it…...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: BOOK REVIEW OF “THE RULING CLASS”
“The Ruling Class” by Angelo M. Codevilla is a must read book for anyone wishing to plumb American contemporary undercurrents. This exciting and original essay describes the huge division between…...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: TOTALITARIAN DEMOCRACY
Israeli historian J. L. Talmon coined the term ”totalitarian democracy” in his 1952 book of similar title, “The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy.” He was not the first to use the…...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: THE RISK A WORLD WITHOUT RISK
In the last seventy years regulating risks to health and safety dominated public policy debates. Lamentably, pursuit of improving our lives generally entails risks. Coal mining produced 47 fatalities…...
Thursday, March 17, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: EFFECTS OF A HOMOSEXUALIZED MILITARY
Effective December 2010 openly practicing homosexuals and lesbians may serve in the US Armed Forces. Is this a good idea? Until December the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy restricted…...
Thursday, March 10, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: DEMISE OF A FAD
How peculiar that the United States and Canada still hold faith in multiculturalism while Europeans move to end their love affair with this harmful fad. Leaders across the Atlantic find…...
Monday, February 28, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: UNIONS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR AMERICA
America confronts a watershed. As the Middle East burns and the US economy regresses Wisconsin, Indiana, New Jersey and other states struggle to free themselves from public union coercion. Currently,…...
Thursday, February 24, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: REAL CARS VS. GO KARTS
In his State of the Union speech, President Obama called for one million plug-in hybrid and all-electric cars on the road by 2015. He then asked congress for more than…...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: BULLYING AND THE NORTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE
The latest popular cause célèbre drawing attention of the North Dakota legislature is bullying. SB 2167, the anti-bullying legislation, handily passed the North Dakota Senate 34 to 11. Now the…...
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: STRATEGIC CHOKE POINTS AND AMERICA’S INTEREST
American naval strategist, Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914), taught that those who control the ocean’s choke points control the world’s shipping. Choke points represent bottlenecks to ocean vessels. Certainly, choke points…...
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: WORDS, JUST WORDS
It seems like only yesterday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Obama gave his famous “Words, Just Words” speech. That was February 16, 2008. “Just words. Just speeches. It’s true that speeches don’t…...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: CELEBRATING ROBERT “RABBIE” BURNS
Wedged between Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday and Black History Month, but far in advance of St. Patrick’s Day, resides an almost-forgotten celebration of a very famous Celtic poet.Robert Burns…...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: TOTALITARIAN AMERICANS
Why do liberals, both Democrats and RINOs (Republicans in Name Only), invariably choose totalitarian solutions to treat real or imagined economic, social and political issues? Don’t they realize Americans resent…...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
DENNIS PATRICK: ONE MAN’S SOLUTION – LIVING COMFORTABLY OFF YOUR FELLOW MAN
Tax season is upon us. Here’s a New Year’s opener using IRS data. FACT: The top 25% of all income earners pay 86% of all federal income taxes. …...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
DENNIS PATRICK: BIG THANKS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
Thanksgiving is a time for -- what else -- giving thanks. There’s much to be thankful for. Of course there are always the tangible things: home, car, money and such.…...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
DENNIS PATRICK: EXIT LARRY SUMMERS - OBAMA TEAM SHRINKS
Lawrence H. Summers exits the White House on December 31, 2010. Larry Summers? Who the heck is Larry Summers? Not exactly a household word, that was my reaction…...
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
DENNIS PATRICK: TRAGEDY OF ECONOMIC ILLITERACY
Once upon a time people who could not read were called “illiterate.” For the most part our schools have solved the reading problem -- sort of. Without a literate population,…...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
DENNIS PATRICK: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE REGULATION STRANGLE
As 2010 draws to a close, the sun also sets on legislated tax cuts enacted a few years ago. This expiration equates to a massive tax increase on all Americans.…...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
DENNIS PATRICK: A VIETNAM VETERAN’S REFLECTIONS
Veterans Day is a great time to thank veterans for their service. I know. Friends and family reached out with a word of gratitude for my service to our country.…...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
DENNIS PATRICK: GREAT DAY FOR A POSTMORTEM
Americans have seen the future from the mountain top of Big Government and they don’t like what they see. The US House elections encompassed the entire United States.…...
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