Some might find it ironic that the most vocal advocates of private property ignore the fact that much of the land they "own" was stolen (sorry, there is no other word) from Native Americans. Of course Native Americans were not so haughty as to believe they might "own" God's creation in the first place.

The Pencil Warrior weighs in on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the political climate which made it inevitable that such a disaster would occur.

How does the media contribute to spinning stories, such as the current drumbeat to reduce the federal budget deficit? The Pencil Warrior explains.

Funny how all of a sudden deficits matter. The Pencil Warrior asks: where were these folks when we were racking up trillion dollar wars on the nation's credit card?

Is there an elephant in the room with regards to the Gulf oil spill? The Pencil Warrior thinks so...

Sometimes even a little bit of digging unearths truths that the mainstream media is either too lazy or too afraid to report.

The profit motive can corrupt even something as simple as a ball game.

Even as recent announcements proclaimed the technical end of the Great Recession for Wall Street, the rate of unemployment in the United States passed the ten percent mark, reflecting a level of misery our local California Street had not borne since 1983.

The for-profit health care industry has been spending approximately 1.4 million dollars a day to defeat reform of the U.S. health care system. Their spending levels may be up, but the quality of their message is definitely down.

The Pencil Warrior's roots run deep, as he discovers at a recent family reunion where he reflects not only on his family history, but the history of our nation. Will we learn from our mistakes, or are we destined to repeat them?