Rob Smith

My first job out of law school was for Joe Stettinius. If you recognize that name, his father was Secretary of State under FDR.  Joe gave me authority over a line of credit and...

I remember it was a beautiful morning in Charleston, and I had walked over to the Farmer’s Market at Marion Square. A nice, hippyish gal was selling her locally raised fruit...

I always think it is bad form to ask someone “what do you do” upon first meeting them. I usually make something up and tell them I am a toll booth operator or a Walmart...

This is my favorite time of year. Fall. College football. Dove hunts. Pig roasts with blue grass bands in the country. My favorite experience of the year, better than...

It was a night time firefight. In the jungle. Vietnam. The morning sunlight exposed the carnage from the night’s horror. The dead and blown up body parts lay scattered around...

“I don’t understand what went wrong.” This is the refrain I have heard the past two days from journalists and other establishment elites concerning the...

I kind of feel sorry for Andrew Cuomo. Don’t get me wrong, I like nothing about him. If there was ever a Governor who deserves to be chucked out of office, it is Cuomo. Have...

I once dated a gal from Wisconsin, a saucy one of German extract. I could tell she thought I was some sort of anachronism from the 1850s. My great great grandfather’s...

Few things are more out of whack in this country than our education system. I like to use the word “learned” as opposed to “educated” when weighing whether or...

I don’t agree that economics is really a “hard” science. Economics is a function of human behavior, period. Now, if you go to a fancy Ivy League university, major...

A friend of mine, a big muckety muck CEO of a national company with $14 billion in sales suggested that I write a positive article about “good things” going on in the US...

My buddy Leigh Spruill, an Episcopal minister, once told me that the word epiphany comes from the Greek, and in its original Greek roots, it means more than just “to...

I figure I know pretty much everything there is to know. The last time I was wrong about anything was June 1997. I predicted Mike Tyson would bite off Evander Holyfield’s ear...

Few things befuddle me more that those silly, self-help, saccharine posts on Facebook.  The author, Miss Suzie Sunshine “inspires” the world on how to be happy and a...

I am here to save America!  In recognition of July 4th, and the reasons behind the struggle for Independence, I have decided to create a new political party, the...

A great struggle is upon us. The ideals of the West are under attack. The unwashed barbarian hordes are at the gate. This army, led by the Prince of Darkness has no other agenda than...

My brother Walter, aka Fat Wally is in a tussle with the University of Virginia and its radical Left President, Jim “Lyin” Ryan.  Fat Wally really isn’t fat,...

I left the big city last night to check on the farm. As the sun was about to set over the glistening Rappahannock, I was startled to hear a “whizzing sound.” A giant...

You know what burns my biscuits? Math. Don’t get me wrong, math is a wonderful tool to understand quantitative applications. For example, “Rob Smith can throw a football...

I was lounging in my Malibu beach house and the University of Alabama cheerleaders were dropping grapes in my mouth……, oh wait, that’s a different dream. My...

On my son’s first day of school, the teacher asked the class what their fathers did for a living. My son answered, “My Dad is a dancing chicken.” I was an awesome...