GOP Nomination – Slow Start, Big Ending

By: J. Randolph Evans

In 1984, Vice President Walter Mondale was 40 delegates short of the number of delegates necessary to win the Democratic Presidential nomination. It was the last time that a national party convention opened without its Presidential nominee having been decided by its state primaries and caucuses. Mondale easily won the nomination at the Democratic National Convention, only to lose decisively to President Ronald Reagan in the Read more...

Goldman Sachs’ Shadow

I think the Goldman Sachs story epitomizes destructive jungle-ethics financialism as opposed to constructive free-market capitalism. We and our country need and must have a revival of capitalism but I fear that will not be possible for as long as we have no-ethics, no personal honor kleptoparasites running the show in Washington and jungle-ethics financialists running the show on Wall Street.

A revival of true and actual free-market capitalism is … Read more...

U.S. Military Cuts Have Consequences

By:  J. Randolph Evans

With just 11 months remaining in his current term, President Obama announced drastic cuts in the U.S. military, including proposed significant reductions in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. The announcement comes as Iran proclaims, publicly and defiantly, that it is much closer to its own production of nuclear fuel; and as Russia continues its steady march to return as an equal military superpower after President Ronald Reagan Read more...

Do-Nothing Congress vs. Do The Wrong Thing President?

By: J. Randolph Evans

As Americans wait for Republicans to pick their nominee against President Barack Obama, there is an important subtext emerging for 2012. With the federal debt mounting, and the recovery remaining sluggish (at best), Americans increasingly wonder “is anyone in Washington, D.C. actually doing anything – especially their job?”

In response to this question, an enormous public relations battle and political tug-of-war is going on between President Read more...

Jim Wooten – A Voice Missed

By: J. Randolph Evans

The average person does not know who Jim Wooten is. Yet, every insider, pundit, politician, and elected official knows exactly who he is. He was a conservative columnist with the Atlanta Journal Constitution (“AJC”). With little fanfare last year, Jim Wooten retired. He was one of the last credible columnists of Georgia’s most liberal newspaper.

Somehow, it just does not seem right that the Georgia Read more...