Those who don’t learn from history are bound to repeat it… Barack Obama pushes sub-prime mortgages… again!

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  April 8th at 09:41 AM  | 

There’s something macabre about an imminent train wreck, you know exactly what is coming but you can’t help but watching. Now imagine that instead of watching that train wreck from atop a building a safe distance away, you’re standing right between the train and the tanker truck that has stalled on the tracks. That’s a different story all together. At that point, rather than being | Read More »

Obamacare – What good is health insurance if you lose the freedom to live your life as you choose?

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  March 25th at 08:55 AM  | 

One of the many reasons conservatives dislike government overreach is because government is so often wrong about so much. And what’s worse, regardless of the magnitude of the government’s failures, citizens are stuck with the consequences of those policies, in most cases forever. This is not a new phenomenon. This has been going on for decades. Upon its establishment in 1965 the House Ways and | Read More »

Life imitates art… Liberals see the world as they imagine it is, not how it actually is

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  January 21st at 09:13 AM  | 

I’ve always been a fan of Van Gogh’s paintings. I similarly like Renoir  and Seurat. Although I like some of Picasso’s early work, most of it I find a bit odd. My favorite artist however is William Adolphe Bouguereau, a 19th century French artist whose works are the polar opposite of the impressionists, literally. From the 1870′s his realistic portrayal of the human form was increasingly | Read More »

Commerce Clause frivolity: Obamacare, NASA and your unwed pregnant daughter…

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  November 21st at 08:28 AM  | 

Two weeks ago the Supreme Court agreed to decide the constitutionality of President Obama’s signature piece of legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. In a surprising act of courage, the Court agreed to decide the divisive case in the midst of what will certainly be one of the most viscerally contentious elections in a century. To their credit, when | Read More »

The certification boondoggle – Industry uses the state’s police powers to limit competition and line member’s pockets…

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  February 17th at 06:42 AM  | 

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution I constantly write about the evils of government unbound. Most of that time those comments are directed at a federal government that has ventured far beyond the constraints imposed by | 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 »

Freedom is more than just Speech & Religion – but there’s not that much left

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  November 29th at 05:37 PM  | 

Freedom is one of those words that we use a lot in this country. It’s one of those words that many use assuming that we’re all talking about the same thing, when in reality we are probably not. Many people will argue that one of the great strengths of America is the Freedom of her people. That is about as far as the consensus goes | Read More »