As I predicted in an earlier piece, (https://joebroadmeadowblog.com/2015/11/14/roots-of-evil/), France has responded in kind to the attacks in Paris. They’ve launched a two-pronged assault, using Law Enforcement to arrest and seize terrorists within their borders and using the might of their…

The recent attacks in Paris have triggered the usual expressions of sympathy which inevitably give way to calls for visiting great harm upon those who perpetrate these acts. The sympathetic responses are, for the most part, sincere yet tempered by…

This is from a series of short stories I am working on. Posted here for your reading pleasure and review.  All comments welcome. My cell rang. I didn’t recognize the number. Thought about ignoring it, then decided to give the telemarketer some…

A person of color was killed the other day. Thirty years old, shot and killed for being the wrong color. The media coverage, non-existent. The attention span of this country to this problem apparently exhausted. We are more inclined to…

“There’s a sucker born every minute…” This phrase, popularly attributed to P.T Barnum, was most likely spoken by David Hannum, in criticism of both P. T. Barnum and those that patronized Barnum’s shows. No matter who said it, there is a great…

To borrow a line from Paul Simon’s song, Kodachrome; When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school It’s a wonder I can think at all… Although much of the “Lie” I write about began in…

Let us take the position of Kim Davis, the Rowan County Clerk of Courts, to its logical conclusion. (I wonder if this is a revival of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in?) What would this mean for America, should she be permitted…

One year ago, September 3, 2014, I finished one of the most difficult, demanding, debilitating, and daunting things I have ever done. Standing on the peak of Mt. Katahdin after hiking 2,185 miles on the Appalachian Trail. Lost 30 lbs,…

The final production of the audio version of Silenced Justice is finished and the project is in the distribution stages. It will soon be available on Amazon, iTunes, Audible, and other audio book sites. The book was read by Brian…