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:

Zen, Galileo and Global Warming March 27, 2014
Oxymorons and Settled Science
How Effective is an “Oil Free Zone”? March 22, 2014
We must begin to recognize that hydrocarbon energy is essential to life as we now know it
Obama’s Malleable View of Constitutions March 20, 2014
Obama’s defense of Ukraine’s constitutional authority would be equivalent to listening to Bill Clinton lecturing on the benefits of sexual abstinence
So Crimea and Ukraine are a Surprise?  Really? March 11, 2014
Democracies do not spring full flower into being overnight
The Perfect Explanation March 4, 2014
Ukraine: Obama's Blame Game
Simony Makes a Comeback March 3, 2014
Reviving the worship of a mythological goddess, Gaia, Gore also reintroduced the practice of simony.
Super Bowl or Super Taxes? February 1, 2014
Good move, New Jersey!
What Hath Diversity Wrought January 21, 2014
Impact on European nations of migration from numerous Muslim nations. Idea of establishing of immigration quotas based on a desire for diversity is insane
Goals for 2016 January 18, 2014
Republicans must emphasize national security, link failures in Benghazi, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, not merely to Obama, Clinton, Kerry, but the entire Democrat Party
Living has Consequences January 12, 2014
As for the consequences that all of us are all living with, wouldn’t you love to know who to blame?
Someone is Going to Die January 7, 2014
ObamaCare: Someone will, in the near future, die because of the failure of our Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Does John Kerry Really Meet This Requirement? January 7, 2014
Secretary of State
N.I.H. December 17, 2013
Not invented Here
A Modest Proposal for Reforming Health Insurance December 14, 2013
A workable way to get government out of the health insurance business, and return control of one-sixth of our $14 trillion national economy back to the private sector
We Weren’t Affected December 10, 2013
But now, along comes ObamaCare. Does that affect me? You bet your sweet life it does.
Nuclear Response to Harry Reid’s Nuclear Option November 27, 2013
If you want to punish the voters who forced Harry Reid on the nation, withdraw your financial support
Yeah, Barry, Words Really Do Matter November 25, 2013
So how’s all that Progress working out for you, huh?
So You’re Offended, Are You? November 22, 2013
So what? Who cares if you’re offended?
Shrugging Off “White Guilt” November 17, 2013
Radical Agitation Racketeers
So the Democrats are Nervous, Are They? November 13, 2013
ObamaCare: Not one individual who participated in this legislative obscenity should be pardoned
Humpty Dumpty Health Insurance November 12, 2013
Whether or not ObamaCare passes another constitutional test, our nation's health insurance system is like Humpty Dumpty after he fell off the wall
And Just Who are the Racists Again? November 2, 2013
The Republican Party was founded to end slavery. The Democrat Party spent a century trying to maintain de facto, if not de jure, slavery
Those Were the Good Old Days October 31, 2013
Once again, the American people are paying for the ideas of idiots who desperately need adult supervision
The Fairy Dust of Borrowing October 19, 2013
Sovereign debt of the nation Versus the Real World
The Government Actually Can Help Small Businesses October 16, 2013
The Law of Unintended Consequences
Bell Bottomed Idiots October 8, 2013
If it makes ME feel good, I’m going to make YOU do it
What is the Real Issue in Syria? September 16, 2013
Russia’s warm water port and potential attacks by Islamic radicals versus Obama’s ego
Progressive Hate the “C” Word September 4, 2013
Competition
Whence Comes the “Moral High Ground” August 26, 2013
Obama, Kerry, Rice and Power have wrapped themselves in self-righteousness
Now The Barbarians are Inside the Gates August 3, 2013
Current disaster of Detroit, and many of the states in financial trouble, has roots that go back to behaviors that are 9,000 years old