by Piper Bayard | Apr 13, 2018 | Life and Death
Bayard & Holmes ~ Piper Bayard The IRS came after me, and I’m smiling. Yes, smiling. No, I don’t enjoy paying taxes. In fact, I’m appalled by the way the government misappropriates or flat out pilfers half of what it takes, and then our “leaders” refuse to...
by Piper Bayard | Dec 15, 2015 | Foreign Affairs, News
Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes Opera is best enjoyed in an opera hall. Sadly, a majority of the world’s population has only experienced “opera” in the form of national and local governments. The performances are always expensive, the performers are usually shrill,...
by Piper Bayard | Jun 15, 2015 | News, PRISM
By Piper Bayard America is not a location. America is an ideal. It is the dream of a country in which freedom is paramount, and it is secure because the government is the servant of the people. Because America is an ideal, Americans are not born. Rather, America,...
by Piper Bayard | Jun 15, 2014 | Current Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes This week, world governments and the attendant media gaggles are focused on the ISIS militia that has captured much of northern and western Iraq. From popular news reports, we might get the impression that ISIS’s expanding influence is a shocking and...
by Piper Bayard | Oct 16, 2013 | Amusing Ourselves and Hopefully You
By Piper Bayard and Jay Holmes Since Congress is out fighting on the playground again instead of doing the job we hired them to do, we here at Bayard & Holmes have stepped in to make sure “essential” duties are not ignored. One of those is the ever...
by Piper Bayard | Oct 2, 2013 | Amusing Ourselves and Hopefully You
By Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes Are you feeling abused by your political system? Disgusted with your congressmen and elected officials? Ready to move to Central America to find some semblance of organized government? Fear not! Bayard & Holmes stand ever prepared...
by Piper Bayard | Dec 10, 2012 | Current Affairs, Foreign Affairs
By Jay Holmes When the people of Egypt ousted President Hosni Mubarak on February 12, 2011, most Western media outlets assumed that the anti-Mubarak protestors were de facto pro-democracy. However, Egyptians are not so cohesive, and they have a complex variety of...
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