Trego's Mountain Ear

It seems fairly obvious that if Joe Biden doesn’t have it together enough to continue his run for reelection he doesn’t have it together enough to continue as President.  This is fairly easy for me to accept, since I’ve thought that since Dukakis ran against Bush I.  It’s also easy for me to accept that, Read more

Let’s start this by going to the BATF to make sure I get the story straight:  The Whiskey Rebellion | TTB: Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau As part of the compromises that led to the adoption of the United States Constitution in 1789, the new Federal government agreed to assume the Revolutionary War Read more

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Our lawn has became a favored spot for wildlife – Gander has made the decision that it’s a good place for short flights of his gosling trainees – maybe 15 to 25 feet from takeoff to landing as they first begin to learn to fly from a running start.  That’s the mornings for the youngest Read more

During most of my lifetime, the Supreme Court has disagreed with me.  I’m not quite a single issue guy, but I have often wondered just what part of ‘shall not be infringed’ is so hard to understand.  Lately, I’ve been looking at a collection of legal minds that can understand ‘shall not be infringed.’ When Read more

Raymond Aron was a French sociologist who opposed all totalitarian governments.  Here are some of his thoughts; “In politics the choice is never between good and evil but between the preferable and the detestable. Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their Read more