Allan J. Ashinoff
Honorably discharged Veteran of the United States Navy. Hobbies include Political, Historical, Philosophical reading, maintaining www.fedupwithpc.com, and running my Consulting Company.
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Articles by Allan J. Ashinoff
January 16, 2009
As the final hours of President Bush´s tenure wind down, and the irrational mania of President-Elect Barak Hussein Obama´s coronation fast approaches, there are good many things to remember about our 43rd president; and a few things that will haunt his legacy.
I have never been of the mindset th...
August 22, 2008
Apparently my old article "The Death of Yahoo Chat", which discussed changes being implemented by Yahoo Corporation in 2005 that were designed to protect children from predators, still circulates in some corners of cyber space. Three or four months ago I received an email through my still active yah...
February 19, 2008
I never had much of a taste for Tom Sawyer. Although Long Island presented some degree of adventure for my younger self, I just couldn´t appreciate Tom´s rafting the Mississippi, the racial verbiage of his time, or the adventures Tom found himself in due to his own youthful curiosity. But today, ma...
February 02, 2008
The smell of Super Tuesday is in the air, the field of Republican Candidates is narrowing down, and the talking heads are saying whatever they can to make you forget who they are because of what they want. That certain unmistakable smell, all too familiar to southwestern cattle ranchers, permeates s...
November 16, 2007
Considering the abundance of “highly qualified” candidates being offered to the American people for President of the United States, all of which are (in my view)no better suited to lead this nation that I am, I have decided to throw my hat into the race for President of the United States in 2008. It...
October 02, 2007
The American border has been, by design, a sieve for Mexican illegal aliens for longer than anyone can remember. Despite government electoral rhetoric to put an end to the deluge of another lands destitute the fact remains that millions of Mexican citizens already reside in the United States and con...
September 21, 2007
Religion, for the most part, is a good thing for society and our government. There is no better measuring stick for personal character than a person’s stated beliefs. The benefit of publicly expressed religion in politics is that it invites hypocrisy. Perhaps the only good thing about hypocrisy is ...
July 31, 2007
In Arizona, temperatures can easily remain above 100 degrees for weeks on end. For those who have never been here, Phoenix is the place where you can literally fry an egg on the sidewalk, dehydrate in less than thirty-minutes, or accidentally kill your pet or child by leaving them in the car for too...
July 05, 2007
Recently I traveled to Washington DC for the first time since I was ten. Taking in the monuments with a mature level of understanding was exhilarating; second only to having the knowledge to help my children experience their history. To gaze at the magnificence of Thomas Jefferson’s nineteen foot st...
June 25, 2007
It’s not very often that those who are self employed can take a true vacation. Its one thing to steal a long weekend here or there occasionally, but to pack up the entire family and spend nearly two weeks literally three thousand miles from ones clients is another matter entirely. Thankfully, due to...
June 02, 2007
The Grand Old Party, the party of Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Reagan appears to be winding down. Democrats would say the decline is a result of a new vision of the future. A future that they, through omission and double speak, have worked persistently to manifest. But those not blinded by hopeful rheto...
May 30, 2007
After many years of paying personal taxes, paying employer’s taxes, honorably serving my nation, voting on principal and writing many articles in defense of freedom, I’ve been told by my President that I am the problem with America. I thought it was odd when the President called the Minutemen vigila...
May 21, 2007
Finally American government is being forthright and honest with the American people. Last week the Senate Democrats and Republicans reached an equitable compromise for Immigration reform in America. The Senate, meeting behind closed doors for more than a month, deliberately bypassed the American peo...
April 30, 2007
Europeans often claim that Americans have a unique disposition that differentiates us from all the other people of the earth. This proclivity, it is said, so exudes from Americans that, when abroad, we are immediately identifiable. To a large number of Europeans, Americans are viewed as reckless myo...
March 12, 2007
The night was cold and clear in the Arizona desert. Several camouflaged men barely visible in the moonlight fanned out across the landscape. After hiking for more than an hour, they broke off, and disappeared into the night. Each man found a place on a hill, or behind sage brush, or in a runoff ravi...
February 21, 2007
As this article is being written there are two United States Border Patrol Agents sitting in prison. A Mexican criminal, a drug smuggler, has received immunity from the Department of Justice in order to secure his testimony against the two agents. Thousands of Americans are desperately trying to o...
February 20, 2007
Thanks to technology - and lack of Hollywood imagination - many comic book super heroes have graced silver screen in recent years. Perhaps no super hero’s story is more relevant to the times and more rooted in America than that of the Marvel hero Ironman. Unfortunately the actual story of the Invinc...
January 31, 2007
The world has learned a valuable lesson on how to destroy America this New Year. This lesson, compliments of the United States National Guard, was taught on January 3rd 2007 on a stretch of bleak Arizona desert along the US-Mexican border. On this night the American military disgraced their nation b...
December 02, 2006
As the Democrats prepare themselves to assume power in Congress in January, one Republican awaits the Democrats arrival. After an unsuccessful bid for the Republican Presidential nomination in 2000, Arizona Senator John McCain has worked diligently to present himself as a palatable choice to both Re...
November 30, 2006
The Democrats have yet to take power in Washington but the shape of their mysterious agenda has already begun to take form. Over the past few days glimpses of the DNC’s vision for America has been released to the media. These ideological bombshells - having been revealed well after the mid-term elec...
October 31, 2006
If any Party deserves to be run out of Washington it’s the Republicans. After nearly a decade of complaining about the Democrats liberal morality, spending on social programs, high taxation, and weak national defense, the Republicans achieved the turnover they had desired, only to play pacifist to t...
October 10, 2006
As an actual Citizen of the United States of America and a resident of the state of Arizona (which incidentally, is still in US territory) I learned a very valuable lesson recently. If you write something about Arizona politics, especially during an election year, you will get noticed.
I received...
October 10, 2006
Americans are starved for leadership when it comes to illegal immigration. Citizens and are near giddy when it appears a lofty self-inflated politico descends from his or her stratosphere and actually seems to understand the concerns of those who elected them. Americans, especially those in the Bord...
September 18, 2006
On November 7, 2006, Arizona will be voting to either re-elect or to remove Governor Janet Napolitano. In honor of this opportunity to rid my state of this demlibopean (Democrat, Liberal, wanna-be European).
I created www.stopjanet.org Its purpose is to remind the people of Arizona of the many 'l...
September 18, 2006
Despite the American Left's predisposition with multiculturalism and moral equivalence, there is scarcely a liberal who would long to live in Havana, Tehran, or Pyongyang. After all, it’s one thing to empathize with and extol the idealistic fallacies of communism, or socialism, or maybe a theocratic...
August 04, 2006
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
- Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States
It seems ‘now more than ever’ politicians and political pundits are clamoring about the desperate need for...
June 01, 2006
"There's nothing to cure. There's nothing wrong with any of us for that matter."
- Storm, from the film X-Men 3: The Last Stand
The premise of the latest summer sizzler ‘X-Men 3: The Last Stand’ is that human scientists have developed a ‘cure’ for the affliction of mutant genetics. This serum ...
April 14, 2006
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
Woodrow Wilson 28th president of United States
Unlike other issues which divide this nation the issue of Illegal immigration has splintered the majority (...
April 12, 2006
A few months ago CBS conducted a poll which stated America’s disapproval of President Bush’s job performance. Despite the biasness of the poll Mr. Limbaugh made a truly offensive off the cuff statement that categorized millions of Americans. As Rush diagnosed the demographic makeup of the CBS poll h...
April 06, 2006
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origi...
April 03, 2006
“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players:They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts,”
- William Shakespeare excerpt from ‘As you like it’
Each time I turn on the television, listen to the radio, or read the news online I’m remind...
March 23, 2006
I can't help but laugh when I read the liberal left's articles portraying Cindy Sheehan as the "proud and grieving mother" of Army Specialist Casey Sheehan (killed in Sadr City, Iraq in 2004). The "self-sacrificing nobility" applied to her by these authors would have her parallel to Gandhi... or at ...
January 13, 2006
In America there are many mantras, or rules, people live by. All these idea’s, religions, and beliefs that dictate personal behavior exist concurrently and in relative harmony in American society. It’s the tolerance of these different ‘ways’ that defines who Americans are as a people. Yet, there are...
January 13, 2006
It appears the anti-American, anti-war, death opportunist Cindy Sheehan?s tune has worn thin in America so she has taken her song overseas where it belongs. Yes, this woman whose only claim to fame is that her son Casey was killed while voluntarily serving his nation in the war against terrorism, du...
November 18, 2005
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
- W.B Yeats, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
As a resident of the state of Arizona I’ve watched and heard John McCain probably more than most. When I moved to Phoenix in 1991 I was impressed that a Vietnam...
November 15, 2005
Nothing bugs me more than people I don’t know telling me what is or isn’t good for me. I guess that makes me an American in the minority viewpoint these days. I don’t smoke and never have but it irritates me that people are trying to pass laws banning smoking in bars and outside spaces. Isn’t it a b...
September 29, 2005
There are times in life when things happen and its hard not to notice that Shakespeare’s ‘As you like it’ was right all along in stating “All the world’s a stage.” The bright lights of the media are enough to seduce anyone into doing just about anything to get their ’15 minutes’ of fame; just ask Jo...
September 26, 2005
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
I have a habit. It’s a nasty little habit that, apparently, most people do not share. I like to read. When I’m not reading literary classics I enjoy books on t...
September 17, 2005
Can a war actually be fought where no one dies except the enemy? How does the used of “smart bombs” weaken the United States? Has President Bush placed America in the same futile mold of Korea or Vietnam where political objectives and not military objectives are the rule of the day? Is America’s pol...
September 08, 2005
Hurricane Katrina was a mighty storm. Nature has once again reminded the world that although we may be powerful, the power that nature can bring forth dwarfs anything man can muster or defend against. It reminds us that on the crust of this globe we can be blown or washed away as easily as fleas fro...
September 08, 2005
In the last week Phoenix has received some 500 to 1000 evacuee’s from Louisiana and has promised to house even more if needed. The Veterans Memorial Coliseum is being used to shelter those who were in harms way from Katrina. A monumental outpouring of food, clothing, and shelter were voluntarily gat...
September 01, 2005
There are certain constants in the world that are irrefutable. No one can deny gravity, no one can deny death, and surely no one can deny the desperation or lunacy of the liberal left in America.
It was only a matter of time before the patron saint of liberal absurdity, Cindy Sheehan, would once...
August 30, 2005
Some time around the turn of the century somewhere in Brooklyn NY there was an Italian immigrant named Giuseppe Gozinta. He was the owner and proprietor of a small mom and pop Pickle store. Mr. Gozinta was a very nice man and very well known in his neighborhood. He was always friendly and courteous ...
August 29, 2005
I’m forever bewildered by the sheer hypocrisy shown by the radical fringe in America. It’s a given that all men, myself included, are hypocrites to some degree but the looney left deserves distinction for the routine casualness and denials of their hypocrisy. To oppose the ideology of the liberal le...
August 12, 2005
"He stands in the unbroken line of patriots who have dared to die that freedom may live, and grow, and increase its blessings. Freedom lives, and through it, he lives -- In a way that humbles the undertakings of most men."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In a world where heroism has been misconst...
August 12, 2005
Once again the depravity of the few has risen up to restrict the masses. Very recently Yahoo.com restricted its chat areas by removing the end users ability to create private chat rooms. It may not seem like much but to a debate hound like me it was a deathblow to a level of socialization that helpe...
August 09, 2005
I had an interesting conversation today with a fellow who adamantly believed that the issue of Illegal immigration is over hyped. He truly believed that illegal aliens were aiding the American economy and that any harm these people caused by being in the US was minimal to the economic benefit th...
July 16, 2005
To most of America immigration is a distant issue. But that's not the way those in Arizona and other border states view this topic. In those states illegal migration is a very serious issue which threatens not only our culture and our safety but jeopardize the very principals of the American way of...
July 11, 2005
Why are America’s politicians so reluctant to actively patrol the nation’s borders? Why is it that President George W. Bush is enthusiastically pursuing freedom, democracy, and sovereignty across the globe but when it comes to America’s sovereignty he ignores the issue? Is there a more reasonable an...
July 09, 2005
After the 2004 election there was rumbling from the media and the left that the “blue” states break away from the rest of the country and form their own “enlightened” nation. Although talk of secession was an angry tongue-in-cheek statement by some disappointed actors and political left wingers ther...
July 08, 2005
Please allow me to introduce myself I’m a man of wealth and pain. I’ve been in control a long, long time and killed thousands without any sense of shame. Pleased to meet you won’t you guess my name?
It must be human nature to seek out any vestige of good even in the most vile of circumstances or ...
July 07, 2005
To discard the Minuteman Project and its people as nutcases or as our President calls them vigilantes is to do a disservice to the essence of who we are as Americans. The article Logic Class 101: The Minuteman Project made a good point of considering property rights and liability. A foundational pil...