Back in the late 1970s, when the now-legendary Lee Iacocca took the reins at Chrysler, he was reputed to have told the union bosses, “Look, boys, I’ve got a shotgun to your head. I’ve got thousands of jobs at seventeen bucks an hour. I’ve got no jobs at twenty.” And that’s when most Americans would have loved to be making [Read More]

Tyrades! By Danny Tyree It was “Christmas in July” for me when I was about 14 years old and accompanied my mother to the local Thrift Shop. Amongst the other antiques and second-hand treasures, I discovered a stack of yellowing Depression-era 12-page Sunday comics sections from the now-defunct “Nashville Banner” and scooped them up for a dime each. (My euphoria [Read More]

David Simpson is no liberal. The conservative state representative from East Texas is so erratically radical that one conservative blog wrote that he was “widely thought of as crazy” by other Texas Republicans, which is saying a lot. He’s best known for sponsoring a bill to ban airport pat downs by TSA officers. Simpson explained, “You’ve got to have a [Read More]