Government

Quotas

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Most states are legislating to cease traffic ticket quotas. The ticket-quota issue came about due to a few communities who took advantage by ordering their police department to write more tickets as a method for increasing their general fund – not kosher.

The Real Story Behind the Gettysburg Handshake

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We all know the iconic photo: an old Union veteran in blue shaking hands with a Confederate in gray at the 1913 Gettysburg reunion. It’s become the symbol of forgiveness — proof that America “healed” fifty years after the Civil War. But the truth underneath it is far more complicated.

2026 Breadlines in Suburbia — How “Free” Housing Bailouts Could Pave the Road to Serfdom

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We used to believe the housing market ran on freedom, work, and responsibility — the idea that if you saved and worked hard, you’d earn the keys to your own home. That myth still sells well, but the current cycle is revealing something darker: a culture conditioned to dependency.

Sometimes you just have to be an [insert slang term for the rectum here] to do things right

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My good friend and occasional blog pinch hitter William Teach noted that Luke Broadwater of The New York Times was apoplectic over the hardball that President Donald Trump played during the Government shutdown: The government shutdown is already the longest in American history. But it’s also perhaps the most punishing, in part because President Trump …

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Rescuing a Dying Tradition: Rebuilding the American Hunter, Part III

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Part III – Rescuing a Dying Tradition: Rebuilding the American Hunter “If We Don’t Pass It On, We’ll Bury It Beside the Campfire.” The numbers are grim but not terminal. Hunting can be saved—but not by bureaucracy. It will be saved the same way it began: neighbor to neighbor, family to family, and a kid’s …

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Last of the Deer Camps: Saving America’s Hunting Heritage Before It’s Gone, Part I

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When Congress passed the Pittman–Robertson Act of 1947, it did something rare: it trusted ordinary citizens more than bureaucrats. Hunters agreed to tax themselves—an excise on firearms, ammunition, and archery gear—to restore the nation’s wildlife. Every box of shells, every rifle sale, sent dollars straight to state conservation agencies. No congressional earmarks, no political games.

Breaking the Cycle in Education

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When I retired in 2017 and finally got settled back in Michigan around 2019, I decided to try something new — teaching. I earned my interim certificate and took a job in what turned out to be one of the poorest counties in the state, measured by home values and income. You could see the poverty in the houses, the roads, and, more than anything, the expectations kids had for themselves.