Meartz's Lake

With Spring coming a some beautiful days taking us outside, we paused to watch PS cover the career of Mr. Rogers.  In these days where so many just seem pulled by the forces of disgust and e...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2018/03/in-times-like-these-mr-rogers.html

December 17, 2008, Updated January 6, 2018 Introduction At the 1992 Republican Party Convention, Patrick Buchanan said that, "There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of Amer...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-culture-wars.html

Where does one begin.  The gang at the lake has been sitting back and watching it all happen.  An amazing election season.  The most amazing thing is the utter shock and misunderst...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2016/05/campaign-2016.html

The LA Times article on the defacing of a Styrofoam wall at Loyola-Marymount College that was decorated with statements in support of illegal immigrants raises an interesting point.  While f...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2016/04/liberal-inconsistency-with-law.html

Comments on the book by Clay Johnson. The Information Diet.   Johnson’s basic premise is that we are so overloaded with information of such poor quality that our need to get away from it, ...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-information-diet-discussed.html

Cabaret follows the life of American Sally Bowles and her compatriots at the Kit-Kat Club in Berlin in the 1930s. Joel Grey, as the emcee in the stage show, states the purpose of the show as bei...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2014/02/cabaret-is-us.html

Robert Graves, in I, Claudius, had Emperor Claudius, when looking over the mess around him him and feeling powerless, say “Let all the poisons in the mud hatch out.”  This is the strateg...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-choice.html

  Old P.T. was right then, and certainly right today. So much of the American public is easily described as suckers. The buy the bilge the criminals in Washington put out as policy and legis...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2013/09/is-sucker-born-every-minute-p-t-barnum.html

Funny how the Washington elites can turn on the people.  They want to serve the people and the people are important until the survey says the people do not agree with them.  Boxer showe...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-people-ignored.html

An amazing press conference visit by Obama brought the startling revelation, for him, that racism cannot be fought by politicians, hence government, but has to be dealt with among people, famili...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2013/07/government-cant-do-it-says-obama.html

in memory 1942-2013 Annette played a major part in the lives of many baby boomers.  She was not a great figure in education, politics, art, and such; but was a symbol of a period of time whe...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2013/04/annette-funicello.html

  Is "law" the answer to problems? or, is it merely a palliative bordering on a joke? The Washington crowd fully buys the concept that to pass a law solves all problems. Their egos tell them...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2013/04/law-is-answer.html

  One has to wonder why the administration would consider a simple no to Senator Rand Paul’s question so hard to give?  To not give an answer is to leave wide open the possibility tha...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2013/03/drones-in-america-filibuster.html

Kristine Arriaga, of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, was on the Bill O’Reilly Show the other week talking about her view of the state of Christianity and the government. She said, “The...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2013/02/government-as-source-of-values.html

The Legal Information Institute at Cornell University explains the government's policy on giving the government donations.  Learn about you gifts at  31 USC § 3113 Amazing as it seems,...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2013/02/donations-update.html

  There is a simple solution readily available to the citizens of the United states who think taxes should be higher to pay for the growth of services and government.  Nothing actually ...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-simple-solution-to-our-financial.html

  If the proposed illegal immigration package passes as they are proposing, or a similar package, what are the plans to take care of the anger of allowing one group of people to ignore the l...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-thoutht-on-illegal-immigration.html

  Have we reached the end of the road?  Long considered one of the ends of the Earth, The French have now invaded Timbuktu and we are helping.  It marks that no place on Earth is b...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2013/01/end-of-road.html

  If you champion the violation of the law by illegal immigrants, how can more law be your answer to any problem, including gun control and mass shootings?  Washington, and specifically...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-thought.html

  Essential reading to understand our current and future fiscal crisises, and those plaguing Europe, is Michael Lewis’s Boomerang. The underlying crisis of democracy in the current time is...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-crisis-in-world-democracy.html

  The question liberals must begin to face and answer is if redistribution of wealth is acceptable because of Obama’s belief that it reflects our long term values as Americans, what is the...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2012/04/redistribution-and-values-dilemma-for.html

  The often looked at view of Freedom of Religion deals with imposition of religion by the government and a limiting of government’s ability to impose religion.  We see this clearly i...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2012/03/freedom-of-religion-second-side.html

The American media is rife with talk of the inability of the current Congress to work out compromises coupled with the dominance of ideology. The media moans that the public is dissatisfied with ...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2011/12/leftward-drift-and-its-limits.html

It is presidential election time we hear.  The gang is naturally a set of Ron Paul.  His appearance on Jay Leno last night (Dec 16, 2011) only confirmed that.  Alive and active and...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2011/12/ponderings.html

On the Today Show, Monday November 7, 2011, it was wonderful--and near stunning--to see Newt Gingrich put liberal Ann Curry in her place. She kept questioning him about Herman Cain’s sexual har...

http://meartz.blogspot.com/2011/11/putting-them-on-spot.html