The Sunday pundits seem to have universally declared he was right…and I cry foul. Without knowing much about the man, I do respect him for his honorable service and great accomplishment of rising to the rank of General. However, it strikes me that if he had any intention of sticking around during a critical time of war to better influence events from his perspective; | Read More »
(My Humble Take on What is Now a Large Part of the Problem) The following is an official release from: The Office of King of My Castle* CRISIS: A dangerously unstable state in which a decisive change is immediately required. (Merriam-Webster’s through the Ntrepid filter.) Many will remember that we were (told that we were) in the midst of a health care “crisis” in 1993. | Read More »
I admit I’m a month behind on this but a friend recently pointed me to this Heritage Foundation Web Memo by Ben Lieberman. Now I’m sure that the author is undoubtedly much smarter than me and I largely agree with the stated “Lessons” in his memo but some of this lacks the substantive analysis required to be taken seriously. The two lines that really bother | Read More »
Attempting to catch up with my DVR and showing what a true glutton for punishment I really am, I just finished watching the Frontline episode called “Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (The Rise and Fall of the Charming, Machiavellian Godfather of Modern, Take-No-Prisoners Republican Political Campaigns)“ that aired earlier this week. To be honest, the part of me that watched it with the proper | Read More »
Earlier this year, I found myself standing in the delivery room a full three weeks before we expected to be there. There had been no real emergency but serious concerns during a routine weekly check-up resulted in a rather direct trip to the hospital for induced labor. For most of the rest of that day, we wavered back and forth between anxious excitement and cautious | Read More »
It may be an unfortunate, yet unavoidable, law of nature but sometimes when governing documents require a change of horse in midstream, a majority may choose instead to change (even for only the sake of change itself) to the convenience of the expertly marketed, all inclusive passing party barge…even as the rudderless free-for-all floats dangerously close to the silent, inescapable influence threshold of a nearby | Read More »
Way back in late June, I referenced the following quote from the now indispensable Blackhedd regarding actual oversight measures directed at oil futures (non-)speculators: Several days ago, the current CFTC commissioner announced stricter position limits and reporting requirements for US accounts trading crude oil to take effect in 120 days, even for accounts trading in London. Coincidently, after approximately that same amount of elapsed time, | Read More »
Recently (and probably here on REDSTATE) someone explained how easy it is to throw Hail Mary’s on every play when you know the fix is in for your side. That, and the total lack of any compulsion to be intellectually consistent on anything, is the only way I can rationalize how a presidential candidate for a “serious” American political party can be this diplomatically careless | Read More »
To be honest, since I long ago voiced my reservations regarding Senator John S. McCain for President, I haven’t watched his campaign coverage very closely so I’m not at all that familiar with his standard stump material. With that said, he included something the other night that may well have been “standard McCain stuff” but it was new to me and it stuck with me. | Read More »
I don’t really mean for the title to sound as insulting as it may but please stick with me… I periodically come across conversations among coworkers, bloggers, and radio personalities where hindsight on Iraq is interpreted as so crystal clear that we should have originally gone in with 250 or 450 thousand troops or that, if President Bush had only listened to certain individuals, a | Read More »
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