While Rahm, David and Barack congratulate themselves over a successful Summit, the rest of us 99%-ers are recovering. I’m a born and bred Chicagoan still residing in the “land”, and the Rahm-bo version of the “we’re going to keep everyone safe” police state that came along with the Summit didn’t quite appeal to me, or to much of the populace. While the 2012 NATO | Read More »
I remember a time in grammar school where I wasn’t so proud of my ethnic heritage because of, shall we say, a certain person’s poor choice of words and phrases used over-zealously to offend. I bore the brunt of some boorish, nasty ethnic slurs, spoken repeatedly, snarkily. Fast-forward to 2012, and I find it amusing that the misguided zealot is now married to a successful | Read More »
I was perusing The Wall Street Journal online edition over the weekend, when a video they were showcasing on their site caught my eye. It was an interview with Jane Wurwand, the co-founder of Dermalogica skin care products. What caught my eye was not the “multimillionaire” in the title, but rather the words, “self-reliance,” a term I believe that could be found today on the | Read More »
Grrrrr… This latest article, Parents: Rule’s half-baked — State’s junk food ban could take bite out of school fundraiser (h/t Drudge) has me steaming, and I mean steaming. The Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health has decreed that as of August 1, 2012, bake sales are banned from public schools because of “nutrition standards.” Since when does a taxpayer-funded Govt. entity have the right to tell the | Read More »
I certainly am no foreign policy expert, but having lived abroad among different cultures gives me a perspective that may be different than the average American. How our foreign policy is being conducted, with its potential repercussions does not give me a warm and cozy feeling. For me, it all began with the photo of an American president bowing to a Saudi King during the | Read More »
Today is my mother’s birthday; she would have been 98. I’m glad she’s not alive to see what her beloved America has become. She wouldn’t recognize it, but she would understand. My mother and father were both first born of immigrant parents. Neither of them finished high school. They were married in 1936 at the height of the Depression, and their marriage lasted 62 years, | Read More »
On Friday, March 23, the President made this comment, “All of us have to do some soul searching to figure out how something like this has happened.” And he’s right. Probably one of the few times that I’ll find myself agreeing with Barack Obama. The Trayvon Martin shooting brings back a memory that is still with me to this day. My father had his own | Read More »
Yesterday, January 26th, the Senate voted 44-52 to block a motion to disapprove the debt-limit increase, which the House passed overwhelmingly last week. By the end of the year, our national debt will hit $16.39 trillion. It was also the day on which the second and last Florida Republican Presidential primary debate was held. In my opinion, Tuesday evening was not a serious debate about “issues | Read More »
Like many people who comprise the Republican voting base, I do not know Newt personally. We only know what we’ve read, heard, and recently seen in the debates. The twice resurgence of Newt during this primary season can either be attributed to the adage, America loves an underdog, or, as mentioned in another post, he articulates the scars of life, which most Americans have experienced | Read More »
The republican presidential hopefuls have now descended into the heated arena of verbal combat in Florida, with Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and lastly, Ron Paul, trying to out-Newt, Newt. Given the response of the various Neros and Poppeas of the MSM and republican establishment to Newt’s win in South Carolina, I’m at the proverbial phrase, “with friends like these, who needs enemies.” Add to that, | Read More »
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