Author Archives: nick

I think there are many more people out there like me. I am a life-long liberal/leftist who began to re-evaluate my political thought after 9/11. I don’t personally know anyone who would have even considered voting for George Bush. Well, … Continue reading →

I know it’s had a big run-up in the last week, but this is just the beginning. It hasn’t sunk in and become the conventional wisdom yet that Amazon has a lock on online retail. The same kind of thing … Continue reading →

The great blue/red schism that has launched a thousand columns and blog posts, has spawned a pair of matching apparitions staring at each other in the mirror. On the red side of the looking glass we have the fearsome bogeyman … Continue reading →

My brother, Steve, turned me on to these great little books from Penguin. They are biographies, but short, 200 pages or so. I have finished Napoleon and Buddha, and have started on Winston Churchill. St. Augustine and Joseph Smith are … Continue reading →

Here are a couple of pictures taken in Nashville with my Sony DSC-P41 digital camera:     

I was talking to my son, Morgan, this evening, who is a second generation hippie leftist, and he made a salient point. America may not be the great satan, but we have the power to be, if we so choose. … Continue reading →

I’ve expanded the previous post into a longer essay, which has been featured, with minor editing, on frontpagemag.com. If Abraham Lincoln were president today, there’s a good chance that the doors would be shut at the New York Times and … Continue reading →

If Abraham Lincoln were president today, there’s a good chance that the doors would be shut at the New York Times and CBS, and Michael Moore, Terry McCauliffe, Ted Kennedy, Howard Dean, and even John Kerry would be rotting in … Continue reading →

I don’t think IQ is the key, and I agree that certain qualities of character and doggedness and judgment and boldness and also a certain kind of flexibility are probably more important (after a certain minimum of intelligence, of course). … Continue reading →

Much has been made of late of the probablity, which I am willing to accept, that the average IQ of Kerry voters is higher than that of Bush voters. The dumb states went to Bush for the most part, and … Continue reading →