From the diaries by Erick Can someone please explain to me what sensible fact or viewpoint Ceci Connolly ever lends to the discussion of any particular issue? On Fox News Sunday, Ms. Connolly gratuitously opined that there isn’t much to be made of recent criticism of anthropogenic global warming, because after all it has been unequivocally established that 2009 was the “second warmest year on | Read More »
Now, I understand that when the President of the United States invites you to the White House for a little discussion, you go. I understand that when the President of the United States invites you to the White House for a photo op, you go. But, when the President of the United States invites you to share his failures, this is one invite you spurn. | Read More »
Remember what your father told you about not trusting someone with shifty eyes. You know the guy – he’s arguably looking at you, but when explaining something his eyes dart from side to side, never once do you get the sense that he’s focused in credibly responding to you. Has anyone ever noticed that Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner does a variation on that theme? | Read More »
Certain core truths about our president are unavoidable. Obama administration policy on terrorism is predicated on its insatiable desire to satisfy the world that America is now a caring, gentile country, which understands that past American hegemony has created conditions in the world where terrorists and those that spawn them rightfully hate America. Obama administration policy on terrorism is predicated on its silly belief that | Read More »
I could have sworn that ‘Moonlight Graham’ finally died walking into the cornfield with Ray Kinsella and ‘Shoeless Joe’ Jackson but, no, he is alive and well and living in Washington, D.C. The Republican Party’s very own version of a ‘broken clock,’ Senator Lindsey Graham, RINO-SC, is now suggesting that Congress act quickly on a climate bill. Why? Because. Because why? Just because. Just because why? | Read More »
Lost in most reports about President Obama’s appalling disrespect of the Supreme Court in his incredible mid-speech challenge of its ruling in Citizens United and Justice Sam Alito’s response is that our esteemed Commander-in-Chief was flat out wrong. In an attempt to deflect any post-speech scrutiny, the White House released this morning excerpts from Justice Steven’s dissent to support the President’s misstatement that the Supreme | Read More »
If you think that the happiest people in America last Tuesday night, on the occasion of Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts, were the Tea Partiers, think again. Scott Brown represents liberation to a select group of moderate Democrat senators, who until this time had been marching in lockstep with President Obama along his path to electoral ignominy. Who knew that the political backbone which elected | Read More »
Twas the night before Christmas and up on the Hill, All the creatures were scurrying to pass their midnight bill. The gifts to certain states were all written in ink, The kickbacks and greed made all the ‘rats stink. Meanwhile, Americans were nestled all snug in their beds, Visions of Christmas joy dancing in their heads. And Palin in her kerchief, and Joe the Plumber | Read More »
While our president deliberates, more and more of our soldiers die in Afghanistan. Counseled by the likes of Axelrod, Emmanuel and Biden, our president is flying blind only by his choosing. He has the learned advice of Petraeus and McChrystal at his disposal and yet he waffles. It’s 3:00 a.m., the phone is ringing and no one is home. Searching out a new way in Iran, | Read More »
General James Longstreet in his oft-maligned or oft-praised written requiem (depending on whose side you fall) of Confederate military history, From Manassas to Appomattox, labeled those who criticized his skepticism of Lee’s Gettysburg strategy as woeful ”knights of peaceful later days.” Longstreet understandably bristled at the hindsight offered by some who used the benefit of time and peace to criticize how he had challenged assumptions of Lee’s invulnerability. He equally resented commentary | Read More »
Been gone for about a month – mental health break from all things Obama. Tremendous sadness hit my family as we lost my step-brother, Marc. He was a kind and gentle spirit, who never fully understood how much he was loved by all those he came in contact with. But, in his final act, Marc gave the gift of life to four or five families | Read More »
Less than an hour ago, I received a call from our National Republican Senatorial Committee requesting a pledge. I quickly informed the initially considerate solicitor that I don’t respond to telephone solicitations, period. In return, I was quickly informed that the NRSC telephone lines are “secure” and I need not worry. There was an apparent disconnect and I, again, informed them that I would not | Read More »
Socialism – Anyone who advances the claim that President Obama is not an advocate of redistributive wealth between Americans, by means of property confiscation by the government, expanded government programming and regressive tax policy, is currently disembarking a small boat with Barbie Benton and shaking Ricardo Montalban’s hand on Fantasy Island. By any reasonable construction, President Obama’s political philosophy finds its roots in the political philosophies of the | Read More »
We have all seen the gleeful look of the previously forlorn auto dealer in Topeka or Louisville, regaling the Cash for Clunker program. And, assuredly, we are heartened by the swift action taken by Senator Reid and his Democrat colleagues to shore up the funding for this worthy endeavor. But what is not told to the consumer of America’s Obama-frenzied media is the administrative disaster that | Read More »
Congressman Zack Space doesn’t know me. There was a day when he might have, but didn’t - long ago, in 1982 and 1983. We, then freshmen at Kenyon, knew him, though. Zack Space was the All-American football player, a good student and a member of the football fraternity, Beta Theta Pi. For those that don’t know, Kenyon College is a small, private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio. Those | Read More »
The Eisenhower Administration had the Great Kitchen Debate – two stalwarts, Nixon and Kruschev, locking horns in a pointed debate over the ideological divide which distinguished America from its communist adversary, the Soviet Union. Unplanned, the debate became the symbol of the discourse which dominated post-war American-Soviet diplomacy, until the communist walls of oppression came tumbling down some thirty years later. We, of course, have | Read More »
Mr. President, declaring twice that you weren’t fully appraised of the Cambridge situation, that you didn’t know the details of what occurred, but then taking the liberty to declare that the Cambridge, Massachusetts police acted “stupidly” in handling the matter of Henry Louis Gates, is “acting stupidly.” You then continued to espouse your untimely wisdom that African Americans and Latinos are often the victims of | Read More »
Boldly, perhaps foolishly, I can only conclude – in a word, yes. The honeymoon is officially over. According to Scott Rasmussen, those strongly approving of President Obama’s performance have fallen from a peak of 45% on January 23, 2009 to 29% as of today – and those who strongly disapprove have risen from a floor of 14% on January 22, 2009 to a peak of | Read More »
Let’s see, according to our president, America had not seen a worse economy since the Great Depression. But according to our vice president last week, the Administration didn’t fully comprehend the breadth of the country’s economic problems when it proposed the oh-so-ineffective Stimulus Plan. Hmmm . . . now, wait a minute, Mr. Vice President, how much more do you have to understand about the economy to know | Read More »
It was like most any morning, at least like those mornings he had experienced over the last two years. The only difference for Judge George A. Woodruff, from the morning before and invariably from mornings to come, was that it was his birthday – July 4, 1863. Judge Woodruff was a yankee doodle dandee – honored to share his birthday with the country he loved, but on this day | Read More »
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