The Gadfly

Problem with the cast of Republican candidates for President is that they are running for leader of a United States that no longer exists. ...

It’s commendable that Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann carry around with them a copy of the U.S. Constitution. Now they should take time to ...

U.S. House Speaker John Boehner flatly informs us that America oppose Obama care. Now according to the latest CNN poll 59% of Americans opp...

On the nightly Fox New “Panel” program on Fox News, executive ditor Fred Barnes, political activist Liz Cheney and syndicated columnist Char...

His bearded, star- bereted photo has become an iconic image among Leninists and hater of capitalism and the United States. The resolve in hi...

On the face of it, the budget-cutting plan proposed by Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan makes perfect sense. The U.S. Government, the nation...

Had Martin Luther King not been martyred and chose to run for public office, he would not have survived the vetting. The man was an unabash...

Politically speaking, at the visceral level, most of my fellow Americans fall into three groups: For those in Group 1, the mere mention of t...

(From Substitute Teaching in Alexandria, Virginia )by C.F. Navarro When I was a college student in the 1960’s, school-of-education courses ...

There is solid historic proof that free-market capitalism is the greatest known engine for economic growth and social prosperity. But the ...

e-mail Author The United States of American is the only nation in the developed world that burdens employers with providing health care for...

Conservative pundits hold that if the current Federal Government followed the policy set thirty years ago by the then President Ronald Reaga...

Is the U.S. Crumbling from Within? Since the collapse of the Soviet Empire, Russian professor Igor Panarin has been predicting that the 50-...

Congressman’s Paul Ryan’ plan to privatize Medicare would not only relieve the young and healthy of the burden of subsidizing the spiraling ...

Public education her in Alexandria, Virginia and throughout most of America is hopelessly broken. For the past 30 or so years everything ima...

Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935, the Social Security Act was one of the cleverest Congressional decisions in Amer...

Why did we let Osama Bin Laden escape when we had him trapped in Tora Bora in 2002? And why didn’t we capture or kill him when we always ha...

With all due respect to you Mr. President, the surge of your so-called “good war” in Afghanistan has degenerated into a chaos of bloodshed t...

Why did we invade Afghanistan and Iraq to begin with? Why don’t we declare the killing of Osama bin Laden a victory and bring all our troops...

Take a close look at the videos of Osama Bin Laden wielding a K-47. The 12 lb. weapon is heavy in his hands, the image of a big but frail m...

The acknowledged dean of capitalism, Adam Smith (1723-1790), was by profession a moral philosopher, not the amoral dog-eat-dog economist tha...

(Introduction to Gadfly's new blog, Substitute Teaching in Alexandria, Virginia--http://alexandriasub.blogspot.com ) Having retired fro...

On the discrimination against undocumented workers. (Spellings of the original text are preserved.) “To remove a man who has committed no m...

At the same time, at the very same instant probably, that The Lord was telling President George Bush to invade Afghanistan, He was telling C...

Something is definitely out of whack. America abounds in natural and human resources. The Stock Market is surging. Corporate profits are ...

Every attempt to upgrade the quality of education in America has failed because the members of the K-12 public education establishment—Feder...

Business folks swear by free market competition, in theory, that is, but in practice they actually fear it, hate it, and do all they can to...

As explained by Adam Smith, the acknowledged dean of capitalism, the value of labor in a free market is largely determined by the difficulty...

Why the fear of closing the Guantanamo Detention Center and transferring its detainees to prisons on U.S. soil? Because the Jihadist terror...

Had “Shoe Bomber” Richard Reid been just another criminal nutcase he would have merely been charged with the trying to blow up an airliner ...

We have always been misled, duped and lied to. Nothing unusual about that. What’s remarkable is that since the turn of this century, the b...

Though it has been ten years since the 9/11 attacks, we are continually warned by our government that it’s only a matter of time before the ...