SOTU: Democrats reject Benedictine reason and empirical truth

    Liberal dogma makes envy, and greedy confiscation of the fruits of others’ labor, virtues for the funding of their non-reason-based  goals and power for its own sake. The juxtaposition of this past week’s resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the State of the Union address by President Barack Obama provided a stark contrast between humility and pretentiousness, but also between faith and reason in ways some | Read More »

    State of American Union ain’t Fat Tuesday

    Capitol City and Baby Boomers party off debt passed on to youth in early stage of Hunger Games As a veteran of many Mardis Gras in New Orleans (with fattening lead-up parades on Mondays in Long Beach, Mississippi)  during the Reagan, Bush41 and Clinton boom years, I can tell you that this Tuesday doesn’t feel fat, even if the partiers’ partying looks as similar as | Read More »

    State of the Union: The Waiting is the Hardest Part

    Say yes to conservative Obama job-creation proposals, one issue/bill at a time while singing Tom Petty’s The Waiting The state of our union circa 2011 need not be so dire. Was it going to take years to climb out of the wealth-destruction hole wrought by the bursting of the housing bubble coupled with decades of accumulating national and personal debt? Yes, but after President Barack | Read More »

    The State of the Bush Liberty Project in Tunisia and other Unions

    A Pre-State of the Union review of the World outside the United States from a Red Stater’s point of view But first, the State of our Union In two days, the Chief Executive we hired on a temporary basis will deliver his report on the state of We the People’s union to a nation made stronger by the increased number of tea partiers that will | Read More »