The IRS Scandal: There is No Smoking Gun
By: davenj1 (Diary) | May 22nd at 02:24 AM |
There will no doubt be Congressional hearings into the brewing IRS scandal that just seems to get worse by the day, especially evey time Jay Carney opens his mouth. To illustrate the fact that where there is smoke, there likely is fire one need only look at where we are now. This entire episode came to light publicly when an IRS official, speaking before an | Read More »
Liberals Just Don’t Get It
By: davenj1 (Diary) | May 19th at 12:34 PM |
The most recent circling of the liberal wagons involves the somewhat apologetic excuses for the brewing IRS scandal. In an absolutely classic case of liberal twisting of logic and facts, the victims (the groups targeted for extra scrutiny) are now the scapegoats and the perpetrators (the IRS) are the low-level victims of a conservative assault on campaign finance laws. What is a poor IRS official | Read More »
Obama’s Worst Week Ever?
By: davenj1 (Diary) | May 16th at 12:46 AM |
Back in 2007 when a somewhat obscure Senator from Illinois was making noise about running for President, this writer decided to look into this guy. Most of the good information I found was from a website I’ll be damned if I can locate again- WTF Obama.com or something like that. Regardless, a few things emerged from this research. The first was that the birther “controversy” | Read More »
One OK Thing About Obama… So Far
By: davenj1 (Diary) | May 4th at 08:34 AM |
This is a rare article indeed since there is really not too much to like about Obama’s presidency thus far. Given the class warfare, the now-boring playing of the race card, the constant campaigning and not to mention his lack of leadership skills, Obama is a walking poster boy for failed socialist policies domestically and naivete at best in international relations. His biggest legacy will | Read More »
Obama’s Little Secret
By: davenj1 (Diary) | April 25th at 02:01 AM |
As a candidate for the presidency in 2008, Obama’s campaign website took particular aim at the alleged secrecy of the Bush Administration regarding a concept known as the state secrets privilege. That website said: “The Bush administration has ignored public disclosure rules and has invoked a legal tool known as the state secrets privilege more than any other previous administration to get cases thrown out | Read More »
Demons and Villains and Scare Mongering Running Amok
By: davenj1 (Diary) | February 25th at 09:59 AM |
Obama’s shameful exhibition last week warning against the spending cuts set to automatically go into effect on March 1st is a perfect example of why this president is no leader. Drunk on his reelection, he truly sees himself as the Chosen One, the political messiah who is destined to lead this country by using the bully pulpit. Trotting out firemen and police officers as stage | Read More »
A Case of Buyer’s Remorse
By: davenj1 (Diary) | December 13th at 04:25 PM |
The election of 2012 is now history. Barack Obama won a second term while the GOP bungled the Senate and mitigated expected losses in the House with some gains elsewhere. There is no shortage of hand-wringing, post-mortems and dissection of an presidential election loss that seemed to be within grasp as late as October. Forget about the inaccuracy of polls, especially Romney’s internal polling and | Read More »
Not a Question of “If,” But “When”
By: davenj1 (Diary) | December 4th at 04:46 PM |
On the Sunday talk shows, newly reelected Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) stated an obvious with respect to the current fiscal cliff dilemma. Now personally, part of me says let us all hold hands and jump over that cliff together. When taxes increase on everyone and spending is cut, we on the Right can then say to the 51% of Americans who reelected Barack Obama: “How | Read More »
Electoral Reform- Part 1: Is There a Need?
By: davenj1 (Diary) | November 11th at 11:18 AM |
On Election Day, as I was following the returns from around the country on Politico (I was following all the races, not just President), somewhere on the lower part of their list of articles was one entitled, “The Real Winner: More Gridlock.” This was published before any votes had been tallied and was the consensus of political “experts.” This was based on an assumption that | Read More »
Where I Went Wrong
By: davenj1 (Diary) | November 8th at 02:13 AM |
In a series of articles leading up to Election Day, I analyzed the presidential and Senate races state-by-state. It concluded with a predicted Romney win with somewhere in the neighborhood of 280 electoral votes. For the Presidential vote, I use a system I devised based upon recent and historical trends in each state, properly weighted, polling data (again weighted), and other criteria then run that | Read More »