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Jim Yardley

Jim Yardley is a retired financial controller for manufacturing firms, a Vietnam veteran and an independent voter. Jim blogs at jimyardley.wordpress.com

Most Recent Articles by Jim Yardley:

Do Laws Only Apply to Conservatives?

The recent nonsense regarding some of the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes being unwilling to perform at the Trump inauguration leads to the potential for many parallel examples but with wildly different reactions.
- Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Dealing with the United Nations

The current imbroglio at the United Nations triggered by the abstention of the United States government during the Security Council vote on a measure which condemned the government of Israel over the building of a few apartment blocks in East Jerusalem demonstrates, for me anyway, two things. First, this action with regard to foreign relations in the Obama administration clearly indicates a tectonic change in our relationship with the government of Israel.
- Wednesday, December 28, 2016

How Could the Polls be So Far Off?

The post-mortem on the 2016 election has now begun (and will probably continue for the next dozen election cycles) trying to identify for both Democrats and Republicans how badly the polls performed. The questions will all be variations on a simple premise: How could our pollsters have failed us so badly?
- Friday, November 11, 2016

A Stunning Achievement

While thinking about the unusual primary season for Republicans (how’s that for an understatement?), with the result being Donald Trump becoming the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party. This season has also led to the disappointment of many in the print and broadcast media that there will not be a contested convention for Republicans in July.
- Sunday, May 8, 2016

What Did He Just Say?

For seven years, or perhaps a bit more, we’ve listened to Barack Hussein Obama say things to us as a nation where the vast majority of people went “What did he just say?”
- Thursday, December 3, 2015

Tell Me That You Love Me

Every person who enters into a relationship with another human being always wants to hear their potential partner say the words "I love you" in some form or other. All of us do, and sadly we succumb to the temptation to give little hints to the other person as to what it is we really want to hear from them.
- Tuesday, December 1, 2015



I Am a Terrorist

I realized this morning, in the middle of my first cup of coffee, that I should be classified as a terrorist! I mean who knew?
- Sunday, November 22, 2015

The Real Source of ISIS Recruiting Strength

Within mere days of the “success” of Islamic terrorists attacking civilians in the center of Paris, Barack Hussein Obama is still insisting that he has to shut down facilities located in Guantánamo Bay.
- Friday, November 20, 2015

The Best is Yet to Come … of course it is

The Internet today has been simply aflame with stories and articles about the complete meltdown of sanity at Missouri University (or Mizzou if you prefer) over one of the precious students finding themselves offended by something.
- Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Oops! I Made a Mistake

Too many times our colleagues from the Progressive wing of the “Can I Be Any Stupider Party” draft and pass legislation that claims to help protect the average American. In trying to sell the public on any of this legislation, exactly WHY it is needed is never stated openly. The underlying logic of Progressives is an assumption that only they themselves are competent to arrange and manage their own affairs. That’s simply a nice way of saying they think anyone who doesn’t send them a large check just before each election is a complete moron.
- Monday, October 19, 2015

Why Do People Hate or Denigrate Columbus?

My wife and I were watching a show on the History Channel about who was really the first to discover America. Why? First, we both love shows that get us to think “Wow, I never knew that.” Second, I always start with the hope that the show will puncture some educational pomposity.
- Monday, October 12, 2015

Refugees: Their Sense of Both Superiority and Entitlement

The well-spring of the millions and millions of so-called “refugees” currently invading Europe (excluding Russia of course) and demanding entry into other nations that fit into their desired pattern of those being dominated by the politically liberal left are not really motivated by an understandable fear of the civil war in Syria. Or the war being fought with the Kurds. Or the war being prosecuted by ISIS and fighting both Iraqi and Iranian militias, with the current addition of Russian air and ground forces.
- Saturday, October 10, 2015

Inconceivable!

In 1987, one of the most charming films of all time was released. It was a fairytale, but a fairytale designed to entertain adults. “The Princess Bride” has been, and continues to be, a work that brings a smile to almost everyone’s lips, effectively mocking the conventions normally associated with fairytales.
- Thursday, September 10, 2015

The First Place to Cut Spending…Easily

If you’re at all like me, you must have said to yourself hundreds of times in your own life “I just don’t have the time to do everything. I can’t get everything done.” And we always say that like it’s a bad thing. But is it a bad thing? It depends largely on context, at least in my opinion. Let’s just say that you’re the President of the United States. You need to shrink the size, and massive cost, of government. Obviously, entitlement spending would be a great target but trying to reduce payments to entitlement recipients would be political suicide.
- Sunday, August 23, 2015

How Do You Eat an Elephant?

First off, everybody just calm down. The title does not refer to the Republican Party. It refers to one of those “Why did the chicken cross the road?”, or “Why does a fireman wear red suspenders?” type questions. Those questions where the answer is so obvious everyone in involved thinks it’s a trick question.
- Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Will We See the Downfall of Both Parties?

Do we have a unique chance at this crossroads in our history, the 2016 presidential elections, to see the destruction, the complete and utter destruction, of both political parties at one time? Think I’m kidding? Imagine that Hillary, clever lawyer that she is, manages to survive her disastrous email investigation, wins her battle to be nominated as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president.
- Tuesday, August 18, 2015

What Should Really be Blamed?

We see time and again, over and over and over, aberrant behavior. People are beaten, people are robbed, people are denied their rights and equal protection under the law, poverty, hopelessness, and so on.
- Monday, July 13, 2015

When Does Decency Triumph?

The recent Supreme Court decision announcing that same-sex marriage is a Constitutional right is now viewed in many cases as an imprimatur over all aspects of homosexual demands on the rest of society. If a same-sex couple wishes to marry, the press and many left wing pundits now view this as having the right to demand of every citizen to do exactly what they're told to do by every same-sex couple that walks in the door, regardless of the religious strictures that may have created resistance to participation, even marginally, in a same-sex wedding event.
- Thursday, July 9, 2015

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