NATIONAL PUBLICATIONS of T.J. O'Hara's recurring columns:

  • Deconstructed (IVN – Independent Voter News)
  • A Civil Assessment (CDN – Communities Digital News)
  • A Civil Assessment (the Communities Section of The Washington Times)
  • A President for the People (the Communities Section of The Washington Times)
  • The Common Sense Czar (the Communities Section of The Washington Times)

Congress’s role in torturing the People

RANCHO SANTA FE, Ca., December 14, 2014 – Many have asked why the  Senate Select Committee on Intelligence chose to release its Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program at this time. The answer is simple. They wanted to torture the American people. According to Wikipedia:

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An ‘Unspeakable’ Way to Return the Republic to the People

SAN DIEGO, Ca., December 3, 2014 – Every two years, we are graced with the opportunity to either restart our Nation or reaffirm Jonathan Gruber’s hypothesis concerning our stupidity. Unfortunately, the Parties have conditioned our behavior to favor the latter. They have also been allowed to erect enormous economic barriers

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The jury is still out on the impact of Ferguson

RANCHO SANTA FE, Ca., December 2, 2014 – It has been a week since the not-so-grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, declined to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. However, an indictment was handed down. It simply had nothing to do with the officer or victim

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FREEDOM: The Unfounded and Unfunded Myths of Entitlement

RANCHO SANTA FE, Ca., November 21, 2014 – Our elected officials have a ministerial duty to create and administer the law without allowing their personal ideologies to affect this responsibility. They are not supposed to abuse whatever limited discretion they may have nor are they to perform their mission with

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FREEDOM: Is ‘Government Efficiency’ an oxymoron?

RANCHO SANTA FE, Ca., November 14, 2014 – One would hope that operating in an efficient and effective manner would be among the main objectives of our Government. However, those two concepts appear to be foreign to our feckless leaders. Apparently, the rule of “supply and demand” doesn’t apply when

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FREEDOM: A Defense Policy that can be a Weapon for Peace

RANCHO SANTA FE, Ca., November 11, 2014 – On Veteran’s Day, it is appropriate to reflect upon the current state of affairs as they pertain to our ability to maintain peace. With the largely unreported turmoil that continues to brew across the world (other than whatever conflict is fashionable to

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FREEDOM: Not having an Economic Policy is expensive (Part 1)

RANCHO SANTA FE, Ca., October 30, 2014 – Recently, China quietly overtook the United States to become the world’s largest economy on the basis of purchasing power (according to the International Monetary Fund). The President didn’t call a press conference to announce the accomplishment because it’s not exactly a favorable

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FREEDOM: What is the true ‘Common Core’ of Education? (Part 2)

RANCHO SANTA FE, Ca., October 25, 2014 – The United States federal government spent approximately $141 billion on public education in fiscal 2014, yet test scores continued to fall in our K-12 schools and tuition continued to rise in our institutes of higher education. Additionally, vocational training remained relatively stagnant.

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FREEDOM: U.S. Education Policy gets a failing grade (Part 1)

RANCHO SANTA FE, Ca., October 21, 2014 – The United States public education system needs to be taught a lesson. Skyrocketing costs plus plummeting test scores on international exams do not equal a successful educational program regardless of how we might be instructed to do the math. We need to

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