We interrupt this program, off season … While America is in political tumult, something amazing just happened. We watched Monday efficient, effective, and smiling Russians help a Russian, an American, and a Canadian out of a space capsule of most ancient design, returning them from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth after well-over a hundred days in space. Commander Chris Hadfield of Canada recorded | Read More »
I have little doubt that Congressional Republicans’ principal purpose for the multiple Benghazi hearings is to embarrass the President and make a potential Presidential run by former Secretary of State Clinton less likely. Mission Accomplished! But the facts are more important to The People, and they are coming out because of those hearings. The inadvertent result of a Congressional Oversight Committees doing, after the fact, | Read More »
From a reliable source: It is the biggest attack since the Taliban launched their annual spring offensive on Sunday, saying it would take aim at foreign military bases and diplomatic areas. The attack came four days after three British soldiers were killed in a similar attack in the neighbouring province of Helmand. Nineteen US personnel have been killed in the last week in three air crashes | Read More »
The BBC has published details of Maggie Thatcher’s funeral Wednesday. In typical British understatement, “Ronald Reagan’s widow Nancy is understood to be too frail to travel.” Thus, the American delegation will include only our most important representatives linked to Thatcher’s decade-plus-one years of service as Prime Minister of our arguably most important ally (the titles are the BBC’s): Former US Secretary of State and Nobel | Read More »
Montana is putting questions to its citizens. The Democrats seem to hate this. Why the heck are Democrats opposed to Democracy? I’m saddened by what we saw today – it’s worse than Washington, D.C.,” Governor Steve Bullock said. “I’m not embarrassed by men and women demanding a right to speak – I’m disappointed by those who denied it. At issue are two ballot initiatives to | Read More »
So I read the latest, on Republican “compromises.” I haven’t noticed the sky falling since The Sequester took effect, although I am told it must have been a catastrophe. Sec. State Kerry announced $250 million in aid to Egypt , since. The US Navy bought another four “littoral ships” for almost $1.4 billion ($1,378,350,912, to be precise, because we can price a ship down to | Read More »
I dearly want to save the Nation another pointless discussion of gun control. The fact is, crazy people kill people, and Congress can’t or won’t address the the far more contentious issue of controlling crazies. After all, the only solution to that would require banning anyone having ever been confined to a psychiatric institution or anyone having ever been prescribed psychiatric drugs from owning guns. | Read More »
On one of Sunday’s news shows, in an interview with Tom Ridge (former Secretary of Homeland Security), a newscaster asked the pertinent question “isn’t one of the first tenets of anti-terrorism to harden the target?” Friday, a gunman shot his way into a Connecticut school, a knife-wielding madman broke into an elementary school in China, and police arrested a student in Oklahoma planning violence against | Read More »
We and China experienced horrific events on Friday morning: 26 children and adults killed in Newtown, Connecticut, 22 school children and one adult killed in Chengping, Henan Province.. 20-year-old Adam Lanza stole his weapons; it would have been illegal for him (under existing Federal Law) to purchase the handguns he had. 36-year-old Min Yingjun used a knife; in the US, knives over about four inches | Read More »
Congress: All y’all voted and passed it last year, and President Obama signed it. Please go home, enjoy the holidays, and do nothing. You’re good at that. Social Security is safe: they made a $59.3 billion profit as of September 30, the end of the Federal Fiscal Year. Grandma will keep getting her payments. although she’ll lose some on dividends and interest from all she’s | Read More »
While Congress debates taxes and whether or not they should have popcorn at a viewing of Lincoln, I remember, and had not yet been born. I remember a university student (circa 1948), who decades later described one of her fellow GI-Bill students: “Every once in a while, he would get up and walk out of class. He couldn’t stay in the room. He had spent | Read More »
A partial solution for “The Fiscal Cliff” would be for ALL Congresscritters to jump over it. by way of apologizing for their incompetence. A few got replaced, but too many came back … Congress is far better at assuring their re-election than doing anything for the people they purport to represent. These guys (and a few gals) take more vacations than any citizen, haven’t passed | Read More »
Susan Rice has made the headlines of late, mostly because she seems clueless on the Benghazi Consulate coverup … but she was “going on the best intelligence available.” She seems to be well-qualified for the job of Sec State (with a Doctorate from Oxford), and background as the Assistant Secretary of State for Africa. Should she be nominated, the Senate will have to have hearings. | Read More »
Just a brief comment. In the next General Election, the new Republican handbook should clearly state that the words “abortion” and “rape” should never pass a candidate’s lips. Todd Akin was a shoe-in against Claire McCaskell until he decided to propose “legitiment rape.” Richard Mourdock was running well until he decided that rape was “God’s intent.” As a result, Republicans lost one Senate seat and | Read More »
If anyone had a doubt that Hedge Funds controlled oil prices. this article (from a 2009 case) should put any doubts to rest. In two hours, ONE broker raised the price of oil by $1.50 per barrel: Perkins ultimately purchased 69 percent of the global market between the hours of 1:22 a.m. and 3:41 a.m. causing the price of oil to jump $1.50 per barrel, | Read More »
I don’t often watch the Clinton News Network (CNN), but I felt obliged to, as FOX commentators tend to talk over the speakers as if ‘bloviators’ were more important.than candidates. I hope the estimated 50 million who watched this debate learned something: Romney is not a monster, and President Obama is no Savior. I may have preferred a different candidate, but I can get behind | Read More »
Nothing can make up for the losses of our soldiers and their families. Their sacrifices are for our nation and not any temporary Commander in Chief. I know, because my wife and I have had friends and relatives “over there” in Iraq and Afghanistan (some, on multiple deployments) and our families have served and lost a few since 1776. I wonder where the media are | Read More »
The President of Chick-Fil-A expressed his personal views on a radio show and created a media storm. Since then, the Mayors of Chicago and Boston have said he’s not welcome. Perhaps Rahm Emmanuel should listen to another interview, in which his newly chosen nemesis says that he’s opening three stores in Chicago and possibly four more. Or perhaps the Mayors of Chicago and Boston should | Read More »
The President, for the first time, has invoked Executive Privilege to protect DOJ documents that might be related to the ATF supplying guns (~2,000 of them) to Mexican Drug Lords. The House (in committee) has responded by recommending “contempt of Congress” charges against Eric Holder, the first Black Attorney General (AG) appointed by President Obama. No one cares to note that Mr. Holder was first | Read More »
… may he rest in peace. He, and other writers, inspired a nation to go into space. Today, our politicians can no longer find the means to pursue that dream. The colonization of Mars will not happen in our generation. He also wrote Fahrenheit 451 (the temperature at which books burn). It is a dire warning against the suppression of ideas and a culture that | Read More »
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