Will big government be felled by big government overreach, arrogance and overconfidence?

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  May 20th at 10:05 AM  | 

One of my favorite shows is a program called “Person of Interest’ on CBS. The story revolves around a government computer that knows when someone somewhere is in danger and passes that information along to a team of ex government types who go on to save that particular Person of Interest. The show’s device is that the machine can tap into virtually every piece of | Read More »

Will Barack Obama bring back slavery to the United States?

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  July 16th at 08:26 AM  | 

Without a doubt November is going to bring us the single most important election in the United States since 1860. At that time too the country was on the verge of an irreparable breach, and by the time Lincoln was inaugurated in March of 1861 seven of the eleven eventual confederate states had seceded, with the remaining four gone two months later. I’m certainly not | Read More »

Rick Perry should harness an imploding Europe to define his message to GOP voters.

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  January 16th at 01:28 PM  | 

It is said that history is written by the victors. In the case of the 2012 election it’s hard to see how that’s even possible given that with the current trajectory of the GOP primaries we’re all going to end up losers. Rarely does it occur that choices and consequences of government policies are so starkly presented for an electorate as they are today. Unfortunately, | Read More »

Single Issue Stupidity and Rick Santorum

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  January 9th at 05:07 AM  | 

I remember hearing once that in Shakespeare’s day the cumulative writings an educated person could be expected to encounter over the course of their lifetime was the equivalent one week’s worth of the New York Times. Today things are slightly different in that we get a week’s worth of the New York Times every week – whether we want it or not. In addition, thousands | Read More »

Tea Party vs. the GOP establishment – Begging for a brokered convention…

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  December 5th at 06:55 AM  | 

For much of the last three years, I, like so many others who were so despondent after the election of 2008, assumed that the election of 2012 was finally going to provide the American people with a real choice of philosophies. On the one side you have President Obama and the progressive / fascist utopia. (Fascist in the economic sense – where private property remains, | Read More »

Representation without Taxation… Should income taxes be a prerequisite for voting?

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  August 29th at 05:34 AM  | 

In the United States we take taxes very seriously. Indeed it’s in our blood. One of the key reasons for the American Revolution was taxation without representation. The Colonists did not like the idea of paying taxes to England without having a voice in how those funds would be levied or spent, i.e. they didn’t have representation in Parliament. In some cases they had representation | Read More »

Obama’s unconvincing feint to the center

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  January 24th at 12:27 PM  | 

Reading President Obama’s piece in the Wall Street Journal last week made me think of something Tom Dye, one of my Political Science professors at Florida Sate used to say when discussing the Soviet approach to arms negotiations: “If it’s someone’s goal to kill you, you should not be surprised to discover that they are more than willing to lie about it in the first | Read More »

Common Sense: The antidote to too much government

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  January 17th at 07:31 AM  | 

Conservatives and libertarians are constantly railing against government intervention in the lives of citizens. As such, they are often accused by the left of hating all forms of government and seeking to deregulate everything to the point where corporations can take over the country and rob and enslave the citizenry. Nothing could be farther than the truth. Conservatives understand a successful nation requires a functioning | Read More »

Liberals see America as a series of problems waiting for government solutions

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  January 10th at 01:57 PM  | 

In some respects liberals and progressives have it easy. All they have to do is look around and they can find problems for government to solve. Kids are too fat? Let’s get the government to decide how restaurants market their offering. Somebody walked away with a bad haircut? Impose government testing and licensing for barbers. Crime getting out of control? Let’s ban all guns. Someone | Read More »

AX – Resurrecting the 10th Amendment

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  October 4th at 07:45 PM  | 

Mascots are a great way to inspire a team. My alma mater Florida State has the Seminoles, the hated University of Florida has the Gators and of course Notre Dame has the Fighting Irish. I would like to recommend a mascot to rally conservatives – and the GOP if they wish to come along – for the 2010 elections: AX. No, it’s not an ax | Read More »