The point of the original commentary, “Paying For the Best” (Oct. 4) was to highlight the perpetual assertion by bureaucrats that the public pays for the best people to do their jobs. Purportedly for the citizens. Unfortunately it is proven time and time again that the “best”...

It’s a safe bet to say there isn’t one governmental official who knows, let alone one who would tell taxpayers, how much the mortgage crisis-bailout sham has cost Americans. In a quest to find out, I quickly found a circuitous path that repeatedly led to one more boondoggle. (“Boondoggle”...

When I wrote last week’s commentary, “Paying for the Best,” I didn’t intend a Part 2. However, since the subject involves bureaucrats blowing taxpayer money, how could I possibly have been so short-sighted as not to think it would be an ongoing saga? The essence of Part 1 is as...

Have you noticed that when a governmental entity hires an employee, especially one with a title that indicates measurable responsibility, the public who pays the salary is told, “We had to pay this amount of salary to get the best?” We see it in our universities, social programs, administrators,...

Given the present status of American society, we rarely get positive news. It is all too common for the civil among us to be subjected to watching rapists and murderers acting out their perversions, then automatically garnering more rights than the real victims. Irrationally, the perpetrator –...

No one could sanely argue against the statement that the nation has been overly saturated with the events of Martin-Zimmerman. Irrespective of the thoroughly sopping topic of skin color, we can now sit and watch the New Orleans saga of Coulter-Landry. Marshall Coulter is 14, black and hospitalized. Merritt...

Every so often, an event occurs and we watch as the event takes on a life of its own.  Content is skewed toward ugliness to produce a story that revives the hollow cry of “needing a dialogue about race.” OK. Let’s do that. It ought to be a positive exercise, but the truth is, the scenario...

As part of the New Deal after the Great Depression, the feds established the Federal Administration of Public Works that later became the Public Works Administration (PWA). The idea was to put people to work and resuscitate the economy. Large-scale projects began. Today we’d call it infrastructure...

It’s a way of life. Cheating, that is. For years, I watched my parents’ reactions to a changing world – a world not necessarily changing for the better. Like my parents, I had a Midwestern upbringing.  Rural – very rural – then transplanted to a small town. It was a world of...

In the scheme of things, Trayvon Martin is not special. Except for his parents and other loved ones, he is simply another citizen. But: Trayvon is hailed as special, and therein lies yet another tragedy added to a long list of tragedies. The list includes Trayvon’s death, his family’s grief,...