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 »
The President made a big deal about and frequently referred to “Invest[ing]” during his State of the Union speech (or so I heard, since I didn’t watch it). Lots of “investing” in more government programs and top-down, centralized economic planning. Lots of “investing” in social safety nets. Lots of “investing” in more pet projects for politicians. Actually, the President was talking about “spending”, but his | Read More »
Alright, America: You bought it hook, line and sinker. You voted for Obama and the Democrats in 2008, and now you have the Democrat’s Health Care Takeover legislation passed into law in March, 2010. President Obama says he’ll sign it tomorrow. So now what are you giving up in exchange? It’s a very simple economic concept here: Opportunity Cost. An opportunity cost is the next | Read More »
While I had been thinking about something like this for several weeks, the document that follows was very much inspired by Nessa’s diary of a few days ago. I’m not declaring it to be the official RedState Resolves (I’m fairly certain that Erick Erickson and the rest of the Mods would have something to say about that!). This is intended as my statement of Grievances | Read More »
Jamie Dupree has compiled a list of 186 earmarks, their sponsor and the amount as part of a Homeland Security Appropriations bill already approved by the House. If you don’t follow Jamie on Twitter or read his blog regularly, you’re missing out on some very interesting stories in Washington. Anyway, I pulled out my spreadsheet software and did a little math: These 186 earmarks total | Read More »
Despite the President’s “Fiscal Responsibility” Summit, the new spending bill before the House contains more than 9,000 earmarks. Indeed, as the President gives lip-service to fiscal responsibility and “pay-as-you-go” budgeting, his allies in the House have now planned to spend more than $1 trillion on discretionary spending. Certainly, Republicans are just as guilty of “Congressionally Directed Spending” as Democrats, but with Mr. Obama going on | Read More »
One of my favorite things to watch over and over on DVD is “Band of Brothers,” the HBO miniseries about Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division, in World War II. My favorite episode of the series, “Crossroads,” shows the period between Operation Market Garden, the airborne assault on Holland, and the siege at Bastogne. Late in the episode, as the 101st dutifully marches into | Read More »
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