by Duke Doering Colonel Lowell M. Davis was USP & FO [US Property and Fiscal Officer] for South Dakota from 1981 until his retirement in 1989. Davis had a long history with the South Dakota National Guard having…
Lester Snyder spent many years as a mechanical engineering professor at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City. As with most retired professors, however, there were few requests in later years to speak to groups about…
Time was that envy was one of the Seven Deadly Sins in Christianity. “Count your blessings” and “the best things in life are free” once could be heard in the humble cottages of workers. That was before…
Just because our computer systems are based upon logic doesn’t mean that popular understanding of our political predicament is clear at all. An email that has gone viral among forwarders must be based on a gut-level sense…
“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” cried the bloodthirsty liberals of the French Revolution. Those high-sounding words were the founding principles of today’s political liberalism. Death to you if you don’t like it. Assassination was the quick and low-budget way of making sure…
Self-defense is the personal responsibility of each individual, as it always has been. Law enforcement simply isn’t around when you need it. University campuses are the perfect location for would-be rapists, since this is where innocent, good-looking coeds tend to…
Everyone knows that we have to give up some of our freedoms to live in a collectivist world with all of the entitlements that produce our comfortable lifestyles. We like a McDonaldized society where things are cheap and predictable. …
They were neighbors and Central European allies, but the leaders of WWII Italy and Germany died within two days of each other. Benito Mussolini on April 28, 1945, Adolf Hitler on the 30th. Mussolini was shot while attempting to flee…
Never has a new technology grown so fast. In his recent “Technology Is Not Wisdom” article, Victor Davis Hanson reminds us that “Americans now have more computer power in their smart phones than did the Pentagon in all its computer…
With its ability to gather information and make social decisions, statistics catapulted central planning into the tool-of-choice for government management. Now computer data collection has joined the team, though we have to remember that bureaucracies are only a mechanism, not…