• Jim Thompson 31 October 2020

    Last chance

    In our rush to assure we don’t discriminate due to all the things in the modern world that are identified as discriminatory, we have forgotten the thoughts of Socrates. But corporate social media and the mainstream press have not forgotten. They have capitalized on it. In fact, the Left has gone so far as to be totally inclusive, bringing non-citizens, the dead and the duplicates registered in multiple voting precincts into the voting booth.
  • Jim Thompson 23 October 2020
    What’s keeping you up at night?
    If you haven’t voted already, it’s time to get personal. What is keeping you up at night? What are your worries that fall into the areas that government can do something about them? When you figure that out, you’ll know which way to vote.
  • Jim Thompson 19 October 2020
    The most important events of 2020
    We are at a serious place when it comes to the amendments that are there for our rights and our protection. I hope, in the brief time that is left, you look carefully at the choices on Nov. 3 where you live and then vote to protect your rights and your freedoms. We lose these freedoms and there is nothing else to talk about.
  • Jim Thompson 13 October 2020
    Executive Order 9981
    Right now, we have a president who is as tough as old Harry Truman, as verbally intimidating as my World War II colonel and as resilient as my swift boat captain. Like the other three, many don’t like him, but he has been consistent through the storms of nearly four years and been delivering the medicine we need.
  • Jim Thompson 3 October 2020
    How much do you agree with law and order?
    One of the favorite convention cities in this country was Seattle (this was about 25 years ago). In those days, invariably, one of the cautions in the prework packet for attendees went like this (not an exact quote): “Be especially careful and avoid jaywalking or walking across the street against the light here in Seattle. There is a no-tolerance policy, and you will likely get a ticket from your friendly police officer.” I liked this.
  • Jim Thompson 25 September 2020
    Protecting the environment, coast to coast
    You are going to have to hang with me on this one – we’ll be figuratively flying around the country. While the country is focused on the presidential election, a replacement judge for the Supreme Court, Covid-19 and social justice, coastal state legislatures this week decided more important matters were at hand.
  • Jim Thompson 18 September 2020
    COVID-19 – and avoiding COVID 20, 21, etc.
    China needs to come before the world and give us an explanation of what happened. It needs to be with credible evidence and witnesses. Right now, it looks like the world was deliberately hit with a weapon of mass destruction, designed to inflict as much damage as possible on the entire world. I don’t know how else you can categorize what has happened this year.
  • Jim Thompson 12 September 2020
    Appeasement always fails
    Nineteen years ago, today, another enemy violated our sovereignty and killed 3,000 Americans in a despicable, cowardly act. Coming out of September 11, 2001, Americans, after a very brief period of unification (the last one we have witnessed), split into two camps – appeasers and warriors. Or, if you prefer, into Chamberlains and Churchills.
  • Jim Thompson 5 September 2020
    Culture war winners are not gracious to losers
    These are the kinds of people taking to the national stage. They have a definite agenda to change the culture for good, permanently, and everyone better get out of their way if they don’t want to get hurt.
  • Jim Thompson 29 August 2020
    You are what you eat
    The world is so full of political issues on which I wish to comment that I have decided to take a break. I can’t decide which one is most important. Hence, I thought I would discuss my dietary regimen this week. This starts with a statement that I have told the family for decades, “The best meal I have ever had is not that much better than the worst meal I ever had.”
  • Jim Thompson 21 August 2020
    The best social program is a job
    I want a country with stable rules, regulations and tax policies so that we have a place to grow more businesses like the one I have just described. These can provide a good future for us all. The very best social program is a job, a job where one makes things people want and need.
  • Jim Thompson 15 August 2020
    The secularization and degradation of the U.S. since World War II
    Morals, ethics and honesty are constantly changing or at least they have been constantly changing in the seven decades I have been around. This column is a selection of scattered remembrances and current observations, some appalling, some not, that flash across my memory. I hasten to say I am cursed with a very good memory, at least of the older scenes, but perhaps you should not ask me what I did last week.
  • Jim Thompson 9 August 2020
    Death has become political
    It seems as though I remember when lung cancer deaths were around a half million a year, so education on smoking is obviously working. Funny, we don’t talk about these deaths anymore. Tuberculosis and death by automobile are other statistics that occasionally come into the national narrative, but not now. At the moment, it is not COVID-19, it is COVID-24/7.
  • Jim Thompson 31 July 2020
    Ohio's Jim Jordan is a jewel
    The Hon. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio's 4th District) had a great week with outstanding performances on July 28-29.
  • Jim Thompson 26 July 2020
    Can’t we just be people?
    I think we will have really gotten over our discrimination practices in general when we present employees, academics, award recipients and others without any mention of those attributes which are not pertinent to the recognition being bestowed.
  • Jim Thompson 17 July 2020
    The qualities of a president
    Only when we can remove ourselves from these despicable conditions will statespersons emerge as presidential candidates. As I have said before, the ideal situation would be two (or more) outstanding candidates, making it difficult to choose, but leaving us with either outcome being good for the country. I don’t think that has happened since Jefferson faced off against Adams in 1796.
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