• Jim Thompson 26 May 2018

    Socialism is not necessarily related to Christianity

    Jesus tells us, more so than in nearly any other area of the focus of his teachings, that our Christianity and our obedience to our government are distinct and unrelated. In no other area of life does Jesus offer such a separation or compartmentalization of our activities. Simply pray for our government leaders – no matter who they are.
  • Jim Thompson 16 May 2018
    Can Pete Rose finally get into the Hall of Fame?
    On May 14, the U.S. Supreme Court, by a vote of 6-3, struck down the federal law prohibiting sports gambling. Katie bar the door.
  • Jim Thompson 13 May 2018
    Is the Fourth Estate about to get what it deserves?
    I am not sure that licensing journalists – but not those who write on the opinion page – violates the First Amendment, either. I don’t see it as any different than licensing machine guns, a law which has been in place since the 1930s, and which is not harmful to the Second Amendment. In both cases, you take wicked tools out of the hands of those with evil intent.
  • Jim Thompson 18 February 2018
    My travails
    Pulmonary edema
    was the prognosis,
    It looked like I would live,
    complete with canine halitosis!
  • Jim Thompson 11 December 2017
    A Christmas story
    Now, it’s Christmas,
    Over ten years later,
    Life’s still delicious,
    Dad’s still my savior.
  • Jim Thompson 13 November 2017
    A Standard Morning
    So now leashed we walk together,
    I seek squirrels, cats, perhaps a feather,
    These are my morning joys.
  • Jim Thompson 8 December 2016
    Heritage Foundation’s 2016 President’s Club Meeting
    Our dinner speaker was Vice-President elect Mike Pence. Mr. Pence made it very clear that the team of Trump and Pence are going to hit the ground running. To say – for conservatives – that the day was like breathing straight from a pure tank of oxygen, would be an understatement.
  • Jim Thompson 5 August 2016
    From Wall Street to Panajachel
    When you drive across the Midwestern U.S., you see corn fields with all the stalks the same height and the fields look very uniform. Here, that is not the case. Hybrid corn is not used and the crop is very irregular in height. In this part of the country, I have never seen a horse or a mule, let alone a tractor. The land is very steep and terraced and is all farmed by hand.
  • Jim Thompson 5 August 2016
    From Wall Street to Panajachel
    When you drive across the Midwestern U.S., you see corn fields with all the stalks the same height and the fields look very uniform. Here, that is not the case. Hybrid corn is not used and the crop is very irregular in height. In this part of the country, I have never seen a horse or a mule, let alone a tractor. The land is very steep and terraced and is all farmed by hand.
  • Jim Thompson 28 September 2013
    The sales test

    The sales pitch is it is “the law of the land.” What a joke of an argument. Let’s see, what else has been “the law of the land” in the past?

  • Jim Thompson 22 September 2013
    Income disparity
    Higher wages have to come from somewhere, and where would that be? You, the consumer, not you, the investor, would pay higher prices.
  • Jim Thompson 7 September 2013
    Why the Feds want to keep you poor
    Politicians prefer the voters who are poor because they can control poor voters. You can control anyone with “free stuff” if they don’t care or are gullible as to what this is about. It is pure old psychological conditioning.
  • Jim Thompson 31 August 2013
    The folly of the 'Life Balance' concept
    Let me ask you this. If you are about to undergo brain surgery, do you want a doctor who (a) thinks and breathes brain surgery day and night; or, (b) a doctor who skipped the last few seminars on latest techniques to go to their kid’s soccer games?
  • Jim Thompson 26 August 2013
    Who will be president on Jan. 21, 2017?
    Any other Democrat, a “strawman” if you will, could run, win and then turn the office over to Obama. This is constitutionally ambiguous enough that it could probably succeed. Easiest way to accomplish this, with Hillary out of the way, is to run Michelle.
  • Jim Thompson 20 August 2013
    Nuts and Bolts
    Today, progressive liberalism knows no bounds. Movements and people of this ilk are literally trying to create heaven on earth. Everyone has a right to everything, they say. No one is to be offended, denied access, or feel pain.
  • Jim Thompson 10 August 2013
    The laws of economics still work

    Who will buy the remaining assets of the United States when the country fails? Will the Statute of Liberty be sold to Russia and moved to St. Petersburg?

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