Jan Lipski, Vandenberg Village

Outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed his opinion on multiculturalism and was hammered with the “woke crowd” calling him everything but something good to eat. What’s happening in our country is a division by ethnicity, color, and economic status. It’s by design to separate us from our Americanism.  You can move to France, but […]

Somehow it escapes the attention of those people who have deprived us of our liberty and freedom that 99.98 percent of positive COVID cases recover. I’m checking now—since this bloody panic (yes, I meant panic) began several months ago, 12,000 cases have been confirmed and 138 deaths reported in Santa Barbara County, which has half […]

President Donald Trump is this year’s—in fact for the past four years—Man of the Year.  Not since the likes of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt has any president taken to heart the words in the oath of office. Dismantling the runaway bureaucracy created by past administrations as they abdicated their responsibilities to unelected special […]

Dystopian. You’ve read the books and have seen the movies. Classics like Dark City or Road Warrior, The Matrix. Authors like Aldous Huxley, George Orwell. The themes are similar. Paranoia of our government and even our neighbor. “Newspeak” where the language becomes controlled by the enforcer. “Thought Police” where any expression can be a criminal […]

More than 5,500 medical and public health scientists and 11,000 medical practitioners have signed the Barrington Declaration.  According to the declaration, “current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short- and long-term public health.” It concludes that “keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately […]

What could be more un-American than Brits trashing this country. John Oliver recently took to task the Electoral College with how it misrepresented minorities and more irrelevant falderal. John, become a citizen, and then you might have some standing. The Electoral College is always topical because we stopped teaching the foundations of our government. Headline […]

With a language as rich as what is spoken in the United States, how is it that we have been reduced to four catchphrases: “In these uncertain times.” “In these unprecedented times.” Maybe there are only three. “We’re all in this together” is the third, and it is the most annoying. We are not all […]

I was tuned into a weekly technology podcast where everything new from Zoom-bombing to what technology Walmart was buying, and the conversation turned to face masks and how we were grateful that there were people out there still stocking shelves and running the checkouts. These people were real heroes. One of the participants, someone who […]

It’s amazing what having so much time on our hands can do for alternative media. Glen and Anna Starkey, movie reviewers for the Sun, discovered a hidden YouTube gem with Planet of the Humans (“Bitter pill,” April 30). Now that we are not able to go to the cinema, YouTube is a Pandora’s Box of, […]

Some of us in the coming weeks will experience something not unlike Neil Armstrong’s “one small step for man …” moment. We will decide to test the unknown. Not all of us will be that apprehensive because we suspect that this new virus entered California last December. I know I had the flu between Christmas […]

Let’s say you have a koi pond with 100 fish, and one day you go out and you find one of the fish belly up. You test it and find out it died of a viral infection. At that point you have a 1 percent fatality rate. If there were 1,000 fish and that was […]

Ron Fink’s lament about a disinterested public (“Time for an overhaul,” Jan. 2) isn’t so much about civic disinterest as it is about the changing methods of attracting attention. Most of it has evolved to the # awareness, but even that has morphed to, “OK I passed on a #, so I’m good, did my […]