A Time for Choosing

By: barleycorn (Diary)  |  September 27th at 01:04 PM  | 

Forty-seven years ago Ronald Reagan, then 53 years old and likely at the height of his intrinsic abilities, gave a speech that resonates as relevantly today as it did when the Beatles ruled the music charts. <embed id=VideoPlayback src=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-1777069922535499977&hl=en&fs=true style=width:400px;height:326px allowFullScreen=true allowScriptAccess=always type=application/x-shockwave-flash> </embed> When you realize it was four presidential terms and 16 years before the man speaking above was sent to the White | Read More »

Rick Perry is not a friend of mine.

By: barleycorn (Diary)  |  September 23rd at 05:06 PM  | 

I don’t know Rick Perry, he’s not a friend of mine and from what I’ve observed of him he’s no Ronald Reagan. But I think conservatives who are so crashingly disappointed in Perry today really need to chill out and gain some historic perspective. The wails of anguish emanating from various conservatives today is disconcerting for many reasons but primarily because I fear there is | Read More »

Rick Perry on Israel

By: barleycorn (Diary)  |  September 20th at 02:47 PM  | 

Rick Perry gave an important talk this morning in New York City on the current attempt by radical Islam to subjugate Israel, in this case via use of the United Nations. Gov. Perry did an outstanding job of laying the blame for the current mess at the clay feet of Barack Obama and his rose-colored glasses foreign policy. The two paragraphs below sum up the | Read More »

2012: Destruction or Resurrection?

By: barleycorn (Diary)  |  July 21st at 01:06 PM  | 

The 2012 presidential election will be the most important in our life time and I believe in the nation’s history. In the past we have had the choice between good and bad, good and better, and bad and worse. In 2012 we will choose between destruction and resurrection. Barack Obama is the least qualified man to ever hold the office of President of The United | Read More »

The unfolding truth about the attack on Lara Logan

By: barleycorn (Diary)  |  February 17th at 01:45 PM  | 

While some misguided individuals have been distracted by the repellent comments made by a non-entity named Nir Rosen, some reporters are focusing on important things rather than the foul mind of one idiot at (or formerly at) New York University. In today’s Boston Herald, Michael Graham does an excellent job in compiling the actual facts of the attack that have been missed or ignored by | Read More »