To all who have served that we may be here today. To Irwin and Roy of the American Expeditionary Force, and Heinrich Sr who fought on the other side. To Don and Leon and Chuck and Verne, and Henry (Heinrich Jr) who fought on our side the second time around. To Ray, who occupied Japan. To Ron, who wintered on Korea. … These just the | Read More »
I don’t belong to any such organization, but this is how I am going to vote in the second week of Texas’ “Early Voting.” I don’t dislike Mitt, but I think the Party establishment has erred on the side of “old white guys who paid their dues and deserve the nomination” for too long. Like Bob Dole and John McCain. Both, good guys, but neither | Read More »
President Obama has finally stated the obvious and necessary. If you believe Kinsey, 10% of male voters are gay, and between 2% and 6% of females are lesbian. (“Experimental” percentages are far higher.) When 5% of voters can throw an election either way, it would be ill-advised to offend them. Governor Romney seems to be taking a more nuanced stance: “My view is that marriage | Read More »
Recently, the General Services Administration (GSA) spent about $800,000 on a party for its employees. The Obama-appointed management has since resigned, but I am really ticked off. Please let me explain. During the Reagan era, I was one of those dread “beltway bandits” who act as consultants to the Federal Government. I managed the performance of several “task orders” under GSA contracts: doing things Federal | Read More »
President Obama and “The Government” are issuing some new excuses for killing Americans. Please don’t be alarmed … it will be a long time after they come for them that they will come for you. I mentioned this a while ago. Vladimir Putin, formerly of the KGB, won Russia’s Presidential election Sunday. I suspect it was an honest election: Russians were allowed to protest leading | Read More »
Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have recently overthrown their corrupt politicians. Yemen is in the process, and Syria is up for grabs. Tunisia’s government went peacefully; Egypt’s too was mostly peaceful (on the part of the protestors). Other Governments’ reactions remind me of the U.S. National Guard’s response to riots in Chicago or demonstrations at Kent State University. It is unsettling to remember what most young | Read More »
This week, Senator Olympia Snowe (R) of Maine decided Tuesday not to run for re-election, and former Senator Bob Kerrey (D) of Nebraska said Wednesday that he would re-enter this year’s Senate race. Last I checked, Democrats control the U.S. Senate, 53-47, and are defending 23 of the 33 seats on the ballot this year. Senator Ben Nelson’s (D-NE) retirement, announced in December, made him | Read More »
With all due respect, the Stupor Committee has failed to come up with any compromise and you, Congress, have failed to do your job. The Constitution requires of you to complete appropriations each year by the October 1 deadline YOU (and your weak-kneed predecessors) imposed, after extending it from July 1! I find it a political farce that 535 Senators and Representatives of The People | Read More »
All over America, today is voting day. There are no Congressfolk nor Presidents to be elected, but if you do not vote you have no right to complain. Wife and I voted on Amendments to the Texas Constitution last week, in “early voting.” We have an arcane requirement that actual People have to ratify (or not) some of the things our Legislature does. Son will | Read More »
I’ll not shed a tear for Anwar al-Awlaki, born an American in New Mexico and holding a BS from Colorado State, an MA from San Diego State, and work towards a PhD at George Washington University. Somewhere along the line, he got weird and led several people to attack his country of citizenship. Born of Yemenis and married to a Yemen, he moved to Yemen | Read More »
I’d like to blame Obama … but the Constitutional experts around here (and “experts” all over the Media) seem regularly to forget that only Congress can raise money or spend it. By all means, “leadership” is in question … but when push comes to shove, only the Republican House can raise taxes and “it takes a village” of Congress critters to spend far more than | Read More »
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. __ Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence. … so says my wife. Because of | Read More »
I read recent posts, and I am impressed by the deep political discourse regarding my State’s “liberal media,” many States opposition to Obamacare, and the attention paid to a coed’s weiner-pic. I thought Redstate more serious, but perhaps I am wrong. I spend this day remembering one of Napoleon’s troops (a relative), ancestors of Wife and I who fought together in the Revolution and against | Read More »
Back in 2000, Billy Daley prolly had to sit at the Kids’ Table Christmas, ’cause he couldn’t steal enough votes in Florida to overturn an election. The US Supreme Court had to step in and order the Florida Supreme Court to follow its own rules. Make no mistake: in Bush v. Gore, the ruling was “follow your own rules,” and THAT followed an earlier severe | Read More »
Last year’s college graduate sent me a note. He achieved a job, but recently sent me a link he referred to as “not news.” He follows current events and had to go to the BBC for a comment on our current fiscal status. I sent Son this response: You make about $50k … were you the Federal Government, you would have spent $88k for the | Read More »
If your family were lucky enough to make $50,000 last year (about the average), in Federal terms, you spent about $88,000 and Republicans just saved you from spending about $1,033 more. YAY, Boehner! Not having any money to spend, a Deal has been reached to cut ~$38 Billion from $1.65 Trillion in DEFICIT spending of money that will have to be borrowed. About a two | Read More »
The Pentagon is about to pull its attack planes out of the international air campaign in Libya, hoping NATO partners can take up the slack. –AP, 4/1/11 And in February, this So … Republicans were FOR the war, before they were against Obama’s belated intervention (war), and are currently complaining about him pulling out of the war. Make no mistake: it’s a war, despite many | Read More »
I think my favorite word for this decade will be “squirmish” … my favorite for the last was “strategery.” I am sorry, but our Republicans’ advocacy of Mrs. Malaprop is only exceeded by their ability to create new words out of tattered cloth. Media will demean them, but these new words are valuable. I do not know how Libya will turn out: we have (belatedly) | Read More »
is not popular, but it ought to be considered. Strief has an excellent post, and many comments follow it. I considered adding my own, but thought they might be lost in the fray. I have to wonder why The President is in Rio while another airstrike is going on, but I remember that President Reagan had to be woken up to be informed that we | Read More »
As our President diddles and Europe dithers, Muammar Qaddafi is proving that the only thing a dictator needs to do to keep power is to slaughter his own people. It is a sad thing for the Arab peoples, who in the past months have been successful in imposing their own form of Democracy in Tunisia and Egypt. When it’s over (and it will be, soon), | Read More »
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