Comfort zone

On Monday night, I did a very scary thing. In general, fear is a good thing. People have healthy fear of things like spiders, poisonous snakes, scorpions and three-toed tree sloths, because they can silently approach and then WHAMO, you are left trying to remember the first aid course you took 30 years ago before going into shock. Over our lives, we armor ourselves in a protective sphere of ...

The interstate highway system is a modern marvel allowing the transportation of goods and services across vast distances, literally tying the country together. It is also a massive money sink, consuming billions of tax dollars every year to keep it maintained. The United States military is the best in the world. Through the equipment and personnel, the modern military is able to project overwhe...

Two-hundred sixty-nine citizens in Milwaukee County had their voting rights taken from them last week because of a manufactured crisis within the US Postal Service administration to prioritize penny pinching over providing a vital public service. As reported in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Paulina Gutiérrez, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, said her office receive...