THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX By: Dr. Charles Ormsby – Jan. 2016 On Tuesday, February 9th, New Hampshire will hold its presidential primary election to determine the New Hampshire delegates to the Republican National Convention. Massachusetts holds its primary on March 1st (Super Tuesday) along with eleven other states. So, Republican voters in New Hampshire and […]
By: Dr. Charles Ormsby – March, 2015 When battle lines are drawn on matters that impact individual liberty, it is important that those who seek to defend liberty stand up and declare their allegiance. There has been a shocking resurgence of anti-Semitism (the prejudice/hatred of Jews as a national, ethnic, religious or racial group) over […]
By: Dr. Charles Ormsby – February, 2015 First and foremost, I hate innocent people being murdered. Hopefully, even most Progressives will join me on that. Oh, I forget … they prefer to banish hate speech. So, I guess they don’t hate innocent people being murdered … or they do hate the murder of innocents, but […]
By: Dr. Charles Ormsby – October, 2014 In our September issue, Michael Veves of Haverhill weighed in with a critique of my August article, entitled “Can You Resist the Devil’s Brew.” I typically let such attacks pass and permit the readers of The Valley Patriot to make their own assessments of the veracity […]
By: Dr. Charles Ormsby – August, 2014 The theory of evolution suggests that species change in ways that increase their ability to thrive. Biological evolution is generally a slow process but can exhibit rapid transformations if a mutant specie emerges which has substantial survival advantages. Human societies based on different principles also have different degrees […]
By: Dr. Charles Ormsby – April, 2014 We all know the discomfort we feel when we watch someone put his incompetence on public display for all to see. And so it is as we watch the terrible events in Ukraine evolve. Putin just keeps slapping Obama upside the head and then openly ridiculing him. Kerry’s […]
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX By: Dr. Chuck Ormsby – July 2013 Detroit has imploded. Like the giant oak whose innards were consumed by thousands of termites, Detroit has finally collapsed. Its productive core can no longer support its own weight. The Democrat Party and its allies in big-government unions should be congratulated. Their criminal thievery, […]
By: Dr. Charles Ormsby – May 2013 The world has long had wars between good and evil. Those who share the ideals of our Founding Fathers can usually spot which side is most aligned with the good and which with the evil. For example, we have an on-going war against Islamic terrorism. In this case […]
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX When asked to comment on individuals with high-deductible, catastrophic health plans, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said, “Some of these folks have very high catastrophic plans that don’t pay anything unless you get hit by a bus. They are really mortgage protection, not health insurance.” (AP) By: Dr. […]
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX By: Dr. Charles Ormsby – September, 2012 I don’t know how he squared his Progressive views with his American Creed (written around 1951), but I can endorse Alfange’s Creed without any reservation. In fact, his Creed has been displayed in my home since I first discovered it in the […]
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX By: Dr. Charles Ormsby – July, 2012 If the Constitution is not dead, it has certainly been rendered impotent by the recent Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare. The survival of the healthcare law is of minor significance when compared to the demise of our Constitution. Laws can be changed, but the […]
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX SIMPLE MATH Only 25 percent of Lawrence’s eighth grade students, based on MCAS test results, are proficient in mathematics. The percentage of proficient students increases to only 27 percent in tenth grade (winter 2011), but this can hardly be considered progress since there are roughly 12 percent fewer students remaining to […]
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX By:Dr. Charles Ormsby – March, 2012 Can’t they just leave us alone? Why must they constantly meddle in our affairs? They are like overbearing busybodies with a congenital case of ego elephantiasis. Or is it arrogance elephantiasis? As children grow up they eventually outgrow the need for parental guidance. The […]
… or, there goes the government screwing things up again! Thinking Outside the Box: by Charles Ormsby We are so used to hearing about the rate of unemployment that we have come to think that a significant percentage of the workforce (those who are able and desiring to work) being unemployed is normal. But it […]
By: Dr. Charles Ormsby – December, 2011 There is a school of thought among psychiatrists that liberals suffer from a severe case of arrested development. The theory is that their parents routinely rewarded their temper tantrums by giving them whatever they demanded. Anything to make them shut up. I can certainly sympathize with their […]