Tomorrow being Memorial Day, Cerise and I were busy at my home in Great Falls, Virginia, preparing for the cook out – as frequent readers of this Web log know, it’s a fairly big deal. That’s because when the family rotation of venues for holiday feasts falls to my place, all my relatives in the Washington… Continue reading When Boy Scouts Go Gay, God’s Scouts Go High Tech
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DOD Sex Scandal Keeps Boiling Despite Fourth Place Billing
Friday morning at 06:00 sharp, Colonel Randy Boener, gender affairs commander, the Joint Chiefs of Staff Military Conduct Policy Task Force, strode smartly into my office and took the seat directly in front of my desk. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, Colonel… um…” I began, stymied as I looked at his name tag. “That’s pronounced BEN-hur,”… Continue reading DOD Sex Scandal Keeps Boiling Despite Fourth Place Billing
Most Likely Reason for IRS Tea Party 501(c)(4) Imbroglio Identified
The media have been reporting a boat load of horrific stories lately, and with the apprehension of alleged multiple kidnapper, rapist and dungeon keeper Ariel Castro in Cleveland, it all got to be a bit too much for my girlfriend Cerise. “I’m going to the zoo this weekend, Tom,” she announced to me on Thursday,… Continue reading Most Likely Reason for IRS Tea Party 501(c)(4) Imbroglio Identified
Niall Ferguson’s Paradigm Which Dare Not Speak Its Name
As regular readers of this Web log know, I have no problem with clients who prefer to remain anonymous. They don’t qualify for free initial consultations, of course, but I do ensure that the price of anonymity is, as we say here in Washington, de minimus – the cost of a mere thirty minutes of… Continue reading Niall Ferguson’s Paradigm Which Dare Not Speak Its Name
Jeb Knows Barbara Bush Always Liked George W Best
What with self-radicalizing Islamic terrorists wreaking havoc on our sacred soil, poison-soaked letters worming their way through the mail from the backwaters of Mississippi to the corridors of power in our Nation’s Capital, billows of nerve gas wafting across Syria, sequestration tightening its python grip on the economy, the garment industry in an uproar over massive… Continue reading Jeb Knows Barbara Bush Always Liked George W Best