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Editorial

Ennis’ Pearl Harbor soldier remembered

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was scheduled to run earlier this month in time for the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. I received several requests from readers for it to rerun. I am sorry it is only now that I’m able to oblige.

Impact of Covid on restaurants

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Thanks to government officials who have prolonged restrictions on the number of people who can dine at restaurants, or closed them down altogether due to the coronavirus pandemic, business review website Yelp has shown that approximately 60 percent of restaurants that had to shut down have done so permanently.

Holiday pruning

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Sometimes I scare even myself. Shortly after we moved to North Florida, I developed a keen appreciation for palmetto fronds, noting how nicely they work in arrangements of greenery.

Libertarian Platform - Securing Liberty 3.6-4.0

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Below is my final column regarding the Libertarian Party platform.

Help in the hard times

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Like a 2020 twelve-month calendar or last year’s Farmer’s Almanac, foretelling the events of the current year was fairly worthless. And the coming quarter may not be any easier.

It’s likely the accuracy of weathermen reigned supreme in this country compared to the last ten months, which still have an eerie apocalyptic feel to them.

Many have called the happenings that have transpired to be a sort of end times sign, or worse, a well-orchestrated plan that has thrown most everyone out of sync. One thing for sure, people may take blackeyed peas serious come New Year’s.

Theme to Rocky

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One of my choice friends, from Syracuse, New York, often uses the phrase “I’m Rescued” as a theme for his life. He even uses it as an email address.

Let’s be honest, there is something innate within all of us that hopes to be delivered, to be saved from danger, to sing like Fontella Bass in 1965 when she belted out, “Rescue Me.” Railroad damsels tied to the tracks waiting for someone, anyone, even Snidely Whiplash, to set us free from pending doom.

Libertarian platform - Economic Liberty 3.3-3.5

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Below is the next installment in my series concerning the Libertarian Party platform.

3.3 International Affairs

Irony in defunding the police

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A year in which an American political party surfed a rogue wave, “defund the police,” a bold, knee-jerk response that arose during the deaths of George Floyd and a few others, waited until after the national elections to recede the sinking thinking.

Confrontations with law enforcement officers were involved in each encounter to hook up with the idea to remove funding for police departments. The thought was that drastic times need drastic measures.

AOC was right

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It is not often that N.Y. Democrat, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or AOC as she known by some, says something I agree with. Actually, not at all, until this week.

The U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th congressional district turned 31 in October, though reversing those numbers would better explain her wacky way of thinking. Her district represents part of the Bronx, portions of north-central Queens, and Rikers Island in New York City. Why they would elect and then re-elect the former bartender is beyond me.

Libertarian platform - Economic Liberty 3.0-3.2

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Below is the next installment in my series concerning the Libertarian Party platform.

3.0 Securing Liberty

“The protection of individual rights is the only proper purpose of government. Government is constitutionally limited so as to prevent the infringement of individual rights by the government itself. The principle of non-initiation of force should guide the relationships between governments.”

I find the above well stated and do not take issue with any portion of it.

3.1 National Defense