Author: Jay Tea

It's been an interesting few weeks in the news, and several stories caught my attention as blog-worthy. Some of them I blogged about, some I didn't, but I found …

My blogging has been slacking off of late, and there have been quite a few factors that have been slowing me down. But to be honest, a lot of …

I haven't blogged about Sarah Palin for a while, but all the talk of late has put me in a vaguely philosophical mood about her. Plus, I've figured out …

Like most people, I like to think that I tend to strike a compromise between principle and pragmatism in most issues. I like to think that I am guided …

Quick, where's the nearest Israeli border checkpoint?...

Years and years and years ago, I read a truly atrocious thriller that featured a conspiracy within the White House to assassinate the president -- for his own good, …

As the Republican presidential field slowly starts to define itself, I am reminded more and more of a truly underrated political novel from the early 1970's: Fletcher Knebel's "Dark …

I've written a few times about one of President Obama's favorite little tactics -- taking opportunities to insult and tell off people to their faces in circumstances where they …

Years ago, a friend hit me with a brain teaser. He said think of a common English word. Then capitalize the first letter, and you change not only its …

Them's my homeys, applying a bit of Yankee ingenuity and good old New Hampshire common sense to a problem...For the first time in my adult life, I'm proud to …