by Ron Barak | Nov 2, 2016
Logically, it might be that I should save this blog until after the election. After all (and to be sure “all” has been . . . a LOT), it’s just a week to go. November 8, 2016. The date history will record, sooner or later, that our Republic, as we know it, ended, if...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Ron Barak | Nov 1, 2016
The 2nd Amendment affords the right to—and only to—“a well-regulated militia” to bear arms. In 2008, Justice Scalia authored the 5-4 landmark decision in District of Columbia v. Heller upholding an individual’s non-existent right to bear arms. This was nothing more...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Ron Barak | Oct 27, 2016
It’s back. Again. Our old friend, the pendulum. How many stories and reports have we heard the past few years about miscreant parents whose “rights” have been coddled and protected by social services only to see one tragic childhood death after another? One is one too...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Ron Barak | Oct 25, 2016
According to perennial Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, “The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.” Has this ever been truer?       Said Molly Sauter in the Los Angeles Times,...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Ron Barak | Oct 20, 2016
Ever wonder why our media is going to pot? No, I don’t mean that pot, but, come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea. What I’m referring to is how everything they’re writing these days is just . . . well, more of the same. Been there, done that. Nothing new,...