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The Mean New Deal
elixir is not a Green New Deal, it is in reality a Mean New Deal.
Rick Elkin is a longtime Escondido
NUWI offers to buy out ECCHO members; ECCHO says, ‘cut the density’
. However, one of the speakers at Monday’s ECCHO meeting, Rick Elkin, put forward a hypothesis that the city
The battle over The Wall: It’s a property rights dispute
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Rick Elkin is a long-time Escondido resident and media and cultural observer. You can follow him at
Asking too much of journalism
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Rick Elkin is a resident of Escondido, an author and media and
Redefining Republicanism
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Many of our leaders are graduates of our ‘esteemed’ college indoctrination centers, and much of their revisionism is accepted as fact. As a result, it is near impossible to outwardly display pride of being an American. We all have been in situations where it is simply easier to remain quiet than to raise your hand and try to defend your […]
End of Innocence
~EsoteRICKAs I have related this innocent and yet sardonic story many times, I am sometimes ashamed of myself. It was a Friday, a parent/teacher conference day at my school. I was thirteen, and since students were excused from classes, my friend and I decided to play golf. I can’t for the life of me remember how we got onto one […]
Hello Colin!
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Rick Elkin is a cultural and media observer, author and
Letter to the Editor: A CLEAR, COMPLETE ANALYSIS OF FORMER COUNTRY CLUB SITUATION
Editor, Times-Advocate:
This is reference to a recent column by Rick Elkin, his June 7 piece
Building Frankenstein: The city council and the former Escondido Country Club development
The former Escondido Country Club is comatose. The scientists are trying to figure out how to reanimate it. Everyone wants something to happen. The question is, what kind of THING will we get? The Escondido City Council adopted The Villages, the Special Planning Area initiative by New Urban West Inc (NUWI). It allows for 383 homes in a variety of […]
Auto Club for Obsoletes
‘Attachments’ is one of those ‘new normal’ words that has many meanings, and which also implies things, not of this world. Things that exist in two realms, one of this Earth, and the other in the Cloud. Apparently, we all have a new attachment, a second brain in the Cloud, supposedly to help the one in our head. Which initially […]
The Blind Leading the Blind
EsoteRICKOne teacher said, “The idea that all teachers should be armed is crazy!” Another said, “Anyone who thinks arming teachers would stop school shootings doesn’t understand what teachers do.” Becky Pringle, Vice President of the National Education Association, offered, “Arming teachers, not a good idea, I cannot imagine having that responsibility of carrying a gun. What’s being described by the […]
Eisenhower’s Premonition
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In March of 2017 I wrote about the eerie premonition former President Dwight Eisenhower had regarding what he called a “Shadow Government.” Here we are in 2018 and the reality of just such a cabal of federal employees and non-elected appointees in very powerful positions is being unmasked. It is more commonly referred to as “The Deep State.” We are […]
The thrill is gone
~ Guest OpinionPro football used to be my shelter from the storm. On Sundays I could actually kick back and have an excuse to just waste my time. It was so much fun to get excited and talk about the upcoming game and who was going to do what to who. Football helps me cope with short, cold winter days and a […]
Trump’s next Tweet
~ Guest OpinionEsoteRICK
I write about Team Mentality a lot. I believe learning how to work together as a Team is a very critical skill we all need to master in order to be successful in family management and business organizations. The concept of supporting a common goal, using the variety of skill sets each teammate brings to the table, and understanding why […]
Who will teach us… then?
~ Guest OpinionWhen I first read a “Guest Opinion” by Rick Elkins, I immediately thought that this was something
The Threat from Within
I have a very serious question to ask: Just how well versed are you on high school and college curriculums? If you have children in high school, you probably visit the campus a couple of times a year for introductory meetings. You tour the classrooms and get a chance to meet the instructors. All well and good. I always came […]
Having each other’s backs
Abstaining from our Pledge of Allegiance and our National Anthem has become all the rage in the morally confused culture of globalism and leftist anger at Americanism. ESPN “First Take” co-host Max Kellerman said that the NFL injects politics “by playing the national anthem and putting pressure on you to stand for it.” — Kent Strobel at The Daily Caller […]
Letter to the Editor: HOW ARROGANT AND CONDESCENDING
, not just the greed of one new neighbor.
RICK ELKIN, Escondido
Rick Elkin is a local blogger and
The costs of war
It is unsettling when I hear the phrase, “The Costs of War”. And every year around Memorial Day, discussions inevitably turn to whether or not wars are worth the costs. What bothers me is the misuse of the language. We should never suggest that war has a cost; in America, war is the cost of freedom. Yes, it is very […]