This is rich. According to a new study from sociologists at the City University of New York, more than a third of activists in the Occupy movement in New York City had household incomes above $100,000, placing them at the cusp of the top quintile of income distribution in America. Researchers surveyed 729 people who [...]

It's Monday and we all need some motivational Red Bull. Here it is. Now, go make awesome happen!

Normally, when government talks about "reform," they mean that they're about to set in place new inept laws and regulations to replace the inept laws and regulations currently in place. Looks like immigration reform is about to happen...again. I do agree with Marco Rubio on this; doing nothing is de facto amnesty, and I am [...]

I had a conversation with the parent of one of my rec league basketball team kids last week that was rather insightful, and (in my opinion) indicative of the larger problem facing this country today. We were having a team meeting after a particularly disheartening loss, and the kids were every bit as frustrated as [...]

The Roberts ruling doomed Obamacare...that was my argument back in June of last year. Well, kind of. Every right-wing pundit from Glenn Beck to Rush Limbaugh cried treason and attacked Roberts for what some called his "peace in our time" decision, while I argued that Justice Roberts' opinion on The Affordable Care Act did not [...]

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. … Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” - John Hancock What will happen when they come for our guns? Not in the [...]

It has been said that it takes a thief to catch a thief, if so, then what can we say about this? Do not be fooled by a belief that progressives, leftists hate guns. Oh, no, they do not. What they hate is guns in the hands of those who are not marching in lock [...]

If there was a saving Grace to those days spent in Cuba between the advent of la puta revolución and the bittersweet day of our departure, it was that we were one of the few houses in our block who actually owned a working television. We were gusanos, but that old Zenith B&W set made [...]

Happy New Year to all! La Rana.

...and the trading floor cheered! "Are you guys just incompetent or what?"

Liberals disarm themselves as a reaction to instances of mass killing of unarmed people. "No questions asked, no ID needed." They don't need an ID to vote, so that is at least consistent.

Not the piece I wanted to post on this, the Eve of our celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior, but it is however, the piece that I would write if my pen weren't weighted down by this ever-present sense of loss. Thoughts from a Rabbi that just nail the state of our [...]