Zachary Hubbard

Zachary Hubbard

Zachary Hubbard | A letter from ‘Shadowland’
My mother Phyllis divorced my hard-drinking, truck-driving father when I was 6. She subsequently took a tough job as a nurse’s aide to earn a living for us.

February 5, 2012 1 Photo
Zachary Hubbard | Top 10 New Year’s predictions
Hello, loyal readers. I hope that everyone had a wonderful 2011.
Once again, it’s time for me to step out of my writer role and get down to the serious business of pronouncing my astonishingly inconceivable annual insights as the region’s perennial preposterous prognosticator. So, for your amazement and amusement, I offer my decidedly delirious and kind of serious top 10 New Year’s predictions for 2012.

January 1, 2012 1 Photo
Zachary Hubbard | Energy key to restoring America’s national power
The elements of national power generally fall into one of four categories – diplomatic, informational, military and economic. In government circles, these are represented by the acronym DIME.

December 14, 2011 1 Photo
Zachary Hubbard | Buying American no trivial matter
While you were getting bombarded with details of the Penn State child sex scandal, you might have missed an important story last week.

November 16, 2011 1 Photo
Zachary Hubbard | Hunger in America is no ‘hoax’
The following is an open letter to nationally acclaimed economist and conservative columnist Thomas Sowell.

October 19, 2011 1 Photo
ZACHARY HUBBARD | 9/11 anniversary stirs memories of fateful day
I retired from the U.S. Army in August 2001 and took a job with a small software company in Hampton, Va.
It never occurred to me that my scheduled drive from Hampton to Arlington, Va., on Sept. 11, might be of interest to anyone.

September 8, 2011 1 Photo
Byzantine complexity confounds America’s lawmakers
The term Byzantine complexity originally referred to the complex government bureaucracy that existed during the later years of the Eastern Roman Empire.

August 3, 2011 1 Photo
We need a realistic, comprehensive energy policy
President Obama floated a trial balloon on June 9, suggesting he might release the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve to help ease rising domestic fuel prices caused by the loss of Libyan oil exports.

June 16, 2011 1 Photo
Random thoughts on politics and stupidity
If you pay attention to Capitol Hill politics, it quickly becomes evident that politicians think you’re stupid. Consider the following examples of political deception. Can there be any other explanation?

April 17, 2011 1 Photo
Libya lunacy prevails on Capitol Hill
Earlier this month, two senior U.S. senators, both former presidential candidates, demonstrated they are certifiably insane.

March 23, 2011 1 Photo
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