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It is hard to take a nuanced position in today's highly charged political climate. Everybody is very invested in pitching the sancti...

Akaka Falls © Robert Sommers 2012 As you can imagine, this blog has grown into a hungry beast that takes up a whole mess of my time. I ...

From a.p.: 46% of the people, some 76 million households, paid no income tax last year. According to the Tax Policy Center study, 38 milli...

Jedi photo composite © Robert Sommers 2012 "My job is not to worry about those people." Mitt Romney This whole Mitt video fi...

My photo clan is having another group show in November. I was the art director, conceiver and paste up man for this poster. Sanoguy took the...

So Jesus had a wife ...Who knew? I can see it now (cue harp music): "Savior, shmaver, how about lifting a finger around here once i...

Here's a great way to lose an hour of your life.

From David Graham's  Where Are the 47% of Americans Who Pay No Income Taxes? at  Atlantic .

Can we vote none of the above? I just listened to Mitt's news conference, nervously fending off questions regarding his "inelegan...

I know I promised...But the koolaid coming from the White House spokesman Jay Carney was just too much to take this evening. He had the teme...

I sense fatigue. You are tired of politics and my ranting of late regarding the unrest in the arab world. This will be my last mention for...

Fox Military analyst Col. David Hunt, in an interview with Breitbart News, is alleging that the State Department rules of engagement fo...

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Oh, to be done with the election and never have to hear about "optics" or "dog whistles" again. While the race is pr...

Okay, repeat after me, one more time, Islam is a religion of peace ... * A very ugly week. The arab spring and its fledgeling democracy...

I don't know why I bought the painting but I felt strangely compelled. We woke up at 3:30 in the morning to drive to the Rose Bowl s...

If there is any lesson that can be gleaned from the current political season, besides the obvious one, that the system is at a stalemate a...

California Governor Jerry Brown has thrown the match race gauntlet down with his bellicose counterpart in New Jersey, Republican Governor ...

I am in my fourth decade of selling art. I started out as a painter and quickly running out of my own canvases, started collecting and selli...

The "south end of a northbound horse." The original advocate for wealth redistribution. Not championing the guy, but I find his ...

I wouldn't trust Paul Ryan, voted biggest brown noser by his high school graduating class, as far as I could throw him, but love yeste...

I have been reading up on Spain and came across the following interesting story when researching the ancient city of Toledo. Josephus sa...