By Tom Vaillancourt | Mar 15, 2025
“These are the best of times and the worst of times.” This famous quote from Charles Dickens has been slightly altered here—from “It was” to “These”—because these are the times we are living in.
By Tom Vaillancourt | Sep 6, 2024
The amount of pure garbage that is raining down on us from the political class is the worst in recent memory.
By Tom Vaillancourt | Dec 5, 2023
This is the time of year when all of the newspaper columnists, TV news anchors, talking heads on TV and radio, etc., wish all of us Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, etc.
By Tom Vaillancourt | Sep 14, 2023
Mark Twain's Wisdom Rings True: Why Active Citizenship Matters Now More Than Ever
By Tom Vaillancourt | Apr 7, 2023
One could spend numerous hours and hundreds of pages describing the “Idea of America”
By Tom Vaillancourt | Mar 6, 2023
The phrase was first used in 1904 meaning “the entire perspective on a situation or issue”
By Tom Vaillancourt | Jan 23, 2023
It is very common this time of year to review the last year and look at what was good and what was bad. If you are a person who believes in “Traditional American Values”, “Faith, Family, Freedom, Friendship, and Fellowship”, 2022 was not a good year.
By Tom Vaillancourt | Oct 28, 2022
“The American people have lost two senses: Common sense and their sense of humor”
By Tom Vaillancourt | Sep 6, 2022
In the past several months I have posted articles with one overriding theme, “Loss of Freedom”.
By Tom Vaillancourt | Aug 12, 2022
How much freedom are the Citizens of New Mexico willing to give up in exchange for security, provided by dictates from Santa Fe and “free” (Paid for by the taxpayer) stuff?
By Tom Vaillancourt | Jul 8, 2022
Surely, all of us feel like our heads are going to explode!
By Tom Vaillancourt | May 27, 2022
We live in some very interesting, or maybe a better adjective would be confusing, times.
By Tom Vaillancourt | May 11, 2022
For those of us who are sports fans, it doesn’t matter what sport, we have all heard the phrase by coaches who have taken over losing teams, “we have to return to the basics.”
By Tom Vaillancourt | Apr 4, 2022
“Truth is the first casualty of war” is a statement that has been used in various forms for a long time.
By Tom Vaillancourt | Mar 4, 2022
We are living in interesting, dangerous, scary, overwhelming times.
By Tom Vaillancourt | Nov 9, 2021
There will be many pundits on all the TV talk shows and cable networks as well as reams of editorials and opinions pieces telling us what we should think about the election results. All of these people have a much better pedigree than I do.
By Tom Vaillancourt | Sep 13, 2021
The first American Civil War was the costliest and deadliest war ever fought on American soil, with some 620,000 of 2.4 million soldiers killed, millions more injured and much of the South left in ruin.
By Tom Vaillancourt | Aug 26, 2021
We are living in interesting times in the state of New Mexico. Our personal freedoms have been severely restricted under the guise of a COVID emergency.
