On bayonets and battleships

By: Frederick (Diary)  |  October 23rd at 05:41 PM  | 

Already, much has been made of the President’s comment about “horses and bayonets” during the foreign policy debate. The President was responding to Mitt Romney’s comment that the United States Navy is as small as it has been since our entry into the First World War. The President responded with the following (from the Washington Post): “Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets,” | Read More »

Irony, thy name is Government

By: Frederick (Diary)  |  February 8th at 09:07 PM  | 

You can always trust the government to pull an Orwell and regularly use words that mean the opposite of their political meaning.  Take “Non-Discretionary Spending,” for example.  What is, by its nature, the most discretionary part of our budget, social programs like Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, are called “non-discretionary.”  The money that funds what our government is meant to do, that is, the courts, regulatory | Read More »