It happens every once in a while: You learn something that completely changes your viewpoint, or your ingrained notions about what you think you know. It happened to me recently, while I was perusing the (otherwise obscure) diary writings of Walter “Bedell” Smith. Smith is remembered (-if he is remembered at all) mostly as Dwight Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff at SHAEF (that is, the Supreme | Read More »
I happened to be on the road the last several days, and thus was able to hear most of Rush Limbaugh’s dissertation about The Slut. It was typical Rush: Funny, extemporaneous, poignant. Then, I stopped at the gas station to fill up, and was smacked in the face with a real issue facing this nation: Barack Obama’s war on energy production. But, no matter: Obama | Read More »
“Good Evening… My name is Rick Perry, Governor of Texas. As many of you know, in August of last year, I announced my candidacy for President of the United States. It was a hard-fought campaign, but, ultimately, it fell short, and I withdrew my name from the contest just prior to the South Carolina Primary. At that time, I endorsed Speaker Newt Gingrich, and it | Read More »
Anyone? Hey, how ’bout you, down there in Ohio? Any takers over there in Massachusetts? Anyone in the Super Tuesday delegation? I’ll vote for Santorum on Tuesday, if you promise to cast my vote for Newt when you go to the polling place on March 6th. You see, I’d pretty much decided to vote here in Michigan on Tuesday for Speaker Gingrich– especially after listening | Read More »
The death of Whitney Houston struck me with the same small, quiet desolation I felt when Karen Carpenter died in 1982. Such enormously talented, beautiful women succumbing to the toxic inner demons that were at once invisible, but also gigantically real. How could the folks around these ladies not see the approaching train wreck, how could they not have been whisked off the squirrel-cage of | Read More »
Let’s Move! says Michelle Obama. Yes– why don’t you? Say, back to Rezko Acres? After all, it’s a great “Buyer’s Market” now, here in 2012. I’m quite certain we can find a nice, 12,000-square foot mansion and compound for you and the fam’ , commensurate with your newly-acquired tastes –for a third the price it might have been before your husband entered office. Ah, yes: | Read More »
From the diaries… We had a smallish political brush-fire here in Michigan in 1982. The grizzled old William Milliken had finally decided that 124 terms was enough as Governor, and he was hanging up the cleats. Jim Blanchard, a weirdo Democrat downriver Detroit Big Labor congressman decided he would run, as did a few other miscreants from the Democrat party. Even the benighted John Conyers | Read More »
As a Michigander, George Romney looms large here in the political Pantheon. He was the last Governor of Michigan to serve under the pre-1964 Constitution (with its 2-year gubernatorial terms), and the first to serve under the new. He was serving in the bright sunshine of Michiganian Greatness, himself coming into the government only after creating American Motors Corporation in 1955 with the merger of | Read More »
Iowa seems a generation ago, doesn’t? Remember? Gingrich was toast, Ron Paul was “fading”, and Rick Santorum was “coming on strong” in the final polls before the actual voting began…. And these final Polling Prognostications? Romney, 22.1%, Paul, 19.5%, Santorum 17%, Gingrich, 12% Of course, this was all it took to officially proclaim the Inevitable Romney as the Crown Prince of Frontrunnerdom. The final poll | Read More »
If you view this election as simply about stopping President Obama, then, by all means: Vote for Mitt Romney. If, on the other hand, you understand clearly that this election is the most important in our lifetime, then you have no choice. You must vote for Newt. Yeah, yeah, I get it: Newt Gingrich is a fat old white guy, given to fits of uncontrolled | Read More »
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