Some have said that we are witnessing a Second American Revolution, but this misses the mark. A better word would be “reformation” because what we really want is for the federal government to be reformed to the original intent of the Constitution. The problem is all knotted in Washington DC, with the federal government. The intent of federalism is to divide power and and functions | Read More »
Having your family bankrupted is no joke and raising a family under constant attack isn’t cupcakes and ice-cream. Sarah may be a governor and a rising GOP star, but first and foremost she’s a parent. Taking a few years off to raise the family and letting the kids grow up somewhat normally sounds like the decision a good person makes. I think she should have | Read More »
Given an infinite amount of time to fail all good things will come to an end. Our republic is a good thing and we are loosing it. The question naturally becomes one of “when”, not “if”, but we can reverse course and ensure that we needn’t loose our Republic just yet. We can so fortify our Republic that it can last much longer then it’s present course suggests. We can | Read More »
The Taliban is within 60 miles of Islamabad. A coup is becoming more and more of a possibility, but we have only bad options, as has been the case for so many years. The government in Pakistan is unreliable. We have been trying to convince Pakistan to take the Taliban seriously for the past seven years but it refuses to do so. We’ve been providing aid and support to a tune | Read More »
A natural ecosystem is wonderfully robust and can weather all sorts of natural disasters, even a lot of man-made pollution. What it has difficulty dealing with is with chemical dumps and the like. Living things cannot think about how they grow or what antibodies they produce or how they will try to repair themselves. They just do. So even then the ecosystem continues to limp | Read More »
I was busy with Thanksgiving plans for about five days and was surprised to see that so much reasonable conversation had happened in the meantime on my previous two posts. There are definitely areas of agreement. I would like to thank those who suggested that I take a closer look at medical information on the subject of fetal viability and public opinion of the second | Read More »
This is a response to many of the comments that I have received to my Pro-Rights post. It’s been interesting being treated as if I was a Pro-Choice happy baby killer, but in reality, I am not. I want to see a more rightward solution to the abortion issue. Do you care more about the argument or the goals? Most of the people who have | Read More »
Edited to add: I’ve recieved many responses to this post, most of which are variations upon a single theme. Rather then try to address each comment individually I’m responding to those here. Abortion has weighed on this country for 35 years, not only because it is a very emotional issue, but also because abortion touches on so many other issues as well. It is not | Read More »
I came across this webpage that collects electoral information on every presidential election in our nation’s history on one page. Complete with maps. That’s pretty handy for comparing information. Here’s some quick back of the envelope observations:
Quick thought. A variation on the story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Once there was a boy who ran for office. At the first breath of criticism the boy cried “Racism!” against his neighbor and all the villagers stoned the offender. The next day another neighbor criticized the boy and the boy again cried “Racism!” and again the villagers stoned the offender. Soon the | Read More »
Before the debate I was wondering, “Will McCain Fight?” and lo and behold he did. But while I was glad to finally see McCain knock Obama around like a red-headed stepchild, McCain could have made each attack more devastating. This is the difference of between a respectable 7 or 8 and a full 10.
One of the points the McCain Campaign has is that McCain is the only guy on the ticket who has ever actually fought for us. That’s nice, but what we really need is for him to fight now. This 3rd presidential debate is perhaps his last chance to change this election. Here’s what I think McCain needs to do to really fight for us in | Read More »
There is anger in this country about the rising tide of Socialism. This anger exists for no slight or whimsical reason. Socialism by any other name will still destroy a country and oppress it’s people. America was complacent in the years after the fall of the Soviet Union, but it was never enough just to defeat Communism. That is just one bird. Socialism, Communism, Fascism, | Read More »
It is important, in our ongoing debate about what to do about global warming, to appreciate how widespread the problem really is. There is global warming occurring on Mars, on Neptune, on Pluto, on Triton, and other as well. It would be marvelous to discover out that we are causing those planets to heat up as well. It would mean that we have the means | Read More »
Pardon me if I adopt some ‘moral equivalency of war’ language here. America has been involved with the Community Reinvestment Act, Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae for some decades. In 1995 we stepped up from the ‘military advisors’ stage to the ‘boots on the ground’ stage by giving the CRA teeth. Thirteen years after that America is still deeply involved and by all measures this | Read More »
Sarah Palin and Joe Biden offered a much better debate then what we got between McCain and Obama. Both of them were much more articulate then the top of their tickets. Both of them had less meandering answers. Both of them were respectful to each other. The moderator seemed more like to call Palin on being over time. That was irritating. Biden was able to | Read More »
McCain could be pounding home that Obama is farther to the left then the socialist in the Senate. He could be pounding about energy, energy, energy, and more energy. He could be pounding Obama and Biden for voting for the Bridge to Nowhere…twice! He could be pounding home that government regulation brought us to this point. He could be pounding about the legislation he introduced | Read More »
Three things John McCain should have said in the presidential debate: 1: “You keep talking about the past 8 years, but you’re not running against Bush, you’re running against me**.” 2: “What do you think “without preconditions” means?” 3: “You talk about meeting with the leaders of rogue countries without preconditions, but you said you’d talk to me any time, any where. I said fine, | Read More »
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