Here is my brief debate rundown, replete with comments from a personal focus group that watched it with me. No beer bottles or wines glasses hit the flat screen. That’s a good thing. Last State of the Union speech? Story for another day Ron Paul – Cuckoo, cuckoo. Why is he still on the stage? His supporters freep every poll and bring their own | Read More »
It is axiomatic to say that candidates will be “vetted” in a primary. But someone will have to explain to me how using demagoguery, half-truths employed to disguise ones own tom-foolery and adaptation of our Democrat opponents other methods (which revolve around using blatant mendacity), help that process? That’s not vetting. It is self-destruction. Let’s face it; Bachmann has no accomplishments to suggest she has | Read More »
I wrote this blog a few years ago thinking it would one of the best ways to recall and portray the events that I lived through on September 11th 2001. It was meant to be a timeless piece that would outlive memory- which is all too often fleeting. The title, “Things I Will Never Forget”, was perhaps half hope, half a declarative statement to my | Read More »
Let me start with the obvious. There are always a significant amount of good causes to which you can contribute your hard earned money. That is especially true when it comes to our military. If you haven’t contributed to groups such as Soldiers Angels or The Wounded Warrior Project I would ask you to put that on your “to-do” list. But today I come to | Read More »
One can never divine a man’s motives. Even if he reveals them unto you- are they reliable and truthful? That is a judgment call based on character. Taking this question further, if Jared Loughner was to reveal his motives- would you believe him? If your response is negative, then why would you believe the media or some internet denizen with political motive? Furthermore, why would | Read More »
I have a message for Democrats and will commence my delivery by metaphorically employing a line straight out of their Hollywood contingent; “The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end“. Call it karma, the diabolical workings of democracy or the ghost of Article 1 (yes, that dusty old document); I really don’t care. But the schadenfreude is becoming increasingly more enjoyable as | Read More »
With the voter tsunami in sight, Democrats are starting to prematurely flail and flop around like fish out of water. They squeal like the Robot from Lost in Space, loudly warning young Will Robinson the coming tidal wave is filled with racist, anti-democratic, tea-bagging crazies’ intent on stealing your “rights”. In one positive sign, it appears Democrats are done making fallacious appeals to men. Apparently | Read More »
Will you remember how you feel today, 8 months from now? That seems to be a significant amount of time to test one’s memory or understand the perdurability of specific emotions. Certainly, an almost reflexive response is to say, yes, I will definitely recall how angry, sad, helpless or uneasy I feel- irrespective of the amount of time that passes. But, is that firmly based | Read More »
As Mr. Obama announced his new “bogeyman” to “turn public attention away from what they’re doing wrong in the administration” he sunk one of the few healthy sectors left in our economy, financial services. Over the past two days, the Dow Industrials took a loss of about 335 points, largely from the banking sector. Clearly, Mr. Obama is seeking to use populist rhetoric as a | Read More »
The Obama Administrations efforts to dismantle our post 9-11 security measures continued today with the issuance of visas for two terrorism suspects. Hillary Clinton has allowed Tariq Ramadan and Adam Habib, previously suspected of having terrorist links, to enter the United States; “Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has signed orders enabling the re-entry of professors Tariq Ramadan of Oxford University in England and Adam | Read More »
Update to an obvious question: Erick notes that he supports anyone “as long as the last name isn’t Greer.” As Erick noted, rumors abound that Charlie Crist is dropping out of the US Senate race. Frankly, if you can’t win your home county, that is probably a good decision. Nonetheless, If eventually found to be true, this is good news not just for conservatives, but | Read More »
Well the wheels of government are indeed turning, but apparently Democrats didn’t realize they turn in both directions. Apparently, citizens have discovered there are ways to fight back against corrupt congressional members. It is an age old device aptly named the recall (via The American Thinker); “The blog And So It Goes in Shreveport notes that a petition to recall Senator Mary Landrieu has been | Read More »
Yes, I paraphrased that title from Thomas Jefferson but believed it relevant to our current circumstances. That is not hyperbole, it is an undeniable fact. We now stand on the precipice of our governments largest, unwarranted and irresponsible expansions in generations. This egregious assault on individual liberty is being driven by ideology and accomplished through grotesquely secret, undemocratic negotiations. It is being driven by a | Read More »
First, an often dismissed and sometimes forgotten fact; Democrats, including Mr. Obama had a majority in Congress two years prior to the last Presidential election. Now, if you believe having a majority in Congress is somehow an overrated and irrelevant actuality, one might think you have not been paying attention lately as Democrats pillage the countryside. But putting this aside for a moment, let’s focus | Read More »
“Something to go with that pile of taxpayer cash, Mr. Congressman, sir?” Well, yes I think the Mexican Sensimilla would go just fine. Seems like a farcical introduction that would otherwise get one in hot water on this site, doesn’t it? But alas, it is just one potential scenario that would play out if the latest piece of comical legislation from Democrats on Capital Hill | Read More »
It’s bad enough my professional duties require I subscribe to the House Committee on Financial Services emails, especially with this current crop of occupants. But getting regular emails from Chairman Frank is perhaps discussion for another time (during Happy Hour when no one would be psychologically damaged by the sub-conscious images). Anyway, in my humble, non-legal opinion they just violated The Hatch Act with this | Read More »
MR. Obama “admonished” Republican’s today for “frightening” the American people. Let’s leave aside for the moment I have no idea how he defines “frighten”. Perhaps he just said, “shame on you, telling the American people the truth while I, your President, is trying to sell ethereal jobs saved nonsense and giving nice, fluffy speeches on unemployment”. Hail Caesar. By the way, one of the White | Read More »
Much has been said about the President’s speech on Afghanistan and some of it was very surprising. To give one primary example, Karl Rove’s piece in the WSJ last week was curiously vexing even in title. Labeled “Obama can Win in Afghanistan”, its appellation begged an immediate sub conscious retort- “but does Obama want to win”? Nonetheless, Mr. Rove perfectly framed the antipathetic Obama argument | Read More »
Strange discussions seem to be flowing across the intelligence wires and Threats Watch has the recon via Memri Blog; An Afghan source in Kabul reports that U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks with Taliban elements headed by the movement’s foreign minister, Ahmad Mutawakil, at a secret location in Kabul. According to the source, the U.S. has offered the Taliban control of | Read More »
Let’s dispense up front with the potential platitudes, supportive arguments and sundry “feel-good” comments. John McCain is an honorable man who admirably served our country and should be lauded for that valiant societal contribution. From my perspective that is an unquestionable accoutrement to the larger debate about Mr. McCain’s contribution to our party. With respect to the latter issue, Mr. McCain is an abysmal failure | Read More »
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