There is little to be gained at the moment rehashing the 2214 different opinions uttered since Tuesday night at about 10:00 pm regarding the demise of the GOP and its prospective resurrection, but there is one stream of thought that needs to be immediately addressed, to wit: that somehow George Bush is to blame for Obama’s 2012 election. Sorry, Laura, no sale. I will grant | Read More »
The Geneva Convention was brazenly violated last night. A civilian – heretofore protected by the mainstream media and insulated from harm – was mercilessly subjected to torture – a verbal waterboarding – and the Red Cross was nowhere to be found. In the end, the civilian’s handlers were left to muddle through a post-debate critique, muttering the same ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’ that plagued the civilian | Read More »
Who says a Carter has never something good for the country? Thanks to James Earl Carter IV, the grandson of the formerly incomparable 39th president of the United States, there is now some clarity, some much needed definition to this election. On the left, you have the ‘redistribution favoring,’ tax, tax, and tax (thank you, Mr. Chief Justice) and spend, spend, and spend liberal, President | Read More »
Law school teaches a few basic legal axioms that are predicates of our legal system and which all lawyers refer back to during their career – contracts require consideration in some form or another, hearsay is only so when used for the truth of the matter asserted, writings are to be interpreted according to their plain meaning and parol evidence is only admissible to clarify an | Read More »
If there is any question that Obama has lost the lustre, is no longer the ‘in’ man in Washington, D.C., have no worries. Obama is aptly demonstrating that he is ‘in’competent, ‘in’effective, ‘in’adequate and ‘in’ept. Too bad, we can’t call his presidency ‘in’consequential. While on her tour of the Mideast, Sarah Palin has been openly and repeatedly critical of the Obama Administration. While I agree | Read More »
Promoted from the diaries by Bill S. Jim Wallis, the longtime leader of Sojourners, a Washington D.C. based ministry dedicated to articulating “the biblical call to social justice,” used the opportunity in a February 24, 2011 column, “This is Not Fiscal Conservatism. It’s Just Politics,” to take an errant shot at recent Congressional Republican budget proposals and Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker. Reverend Wallis, as you may recall, | Read More »
Reflecting on Libya today, President Obama labeled government aggression towards its citizenry as ‘outrageous’ and ‘intolerable.’ Ok . . . if Gaddafi’s actions are ‘outrageous’ and ‘intolerable’ – and they are – why does it take the American president four or five days to condemn the activity? I mean, c’mon, labeling Hitler’s actions despicable and deplorable years after Nazi atrocities wasn’t exactly pushing the envelope, | Read More »
1959 - Cuba – Fulgencio Batista, dictator, militarist led a corrupt and repressive regime. An American puppet, but hardly a democrat. Seeds of discontent disturb the Cuban countryside and soon the streets of Havana – America stands largely silent. After a couple intermediate steps, who emerges from the rudderless revolution? Fidel Castro – dictator, militarist, communist, who has led a corrupt and repressive regime for more | Read More »
1970′s Redux – WOW!! What a week!! In the span of just seven days, President Obama is proving that his administration is as crooked as President Nixon’s and as incompetent as President Carter’s. In an amazing display of idiocy, the White House trots out an explanation today in Sestakgate (nah . . . don’t like that – not catchy enough) . . . an explanation today in Spectergate | Read More »
There are three people to whom I owe everything – Jesus Christ, my father and my mother. On this Mother’s Day, I know you share my gratitude and appreciation for everything that mothers do. Yesterday, between cold, blustery Little League games, I got to spend some unplanned time with my mom – while my son’s team struggled on the field, the opportunity to see and | Read More »
The Iowa presidential caucuses should be immediately canceled. No state which has residents whom think like this should be permitted to influence the election of a President of the United States. The Obamafication of America continues – you can not make this crap up, you just can’t. Ok . . . so let me get this straight, first, Obamacare lacks any real enforcement mechanism for those | Read More »
Healthcare passes – greatest social welfare achievement of the last 45 years right and CNN, which was fawning over the President last night, releases a poll today highlighting that 59% of Americans oppose Obamacare. BE VERY WARY of this poll, people. If you think for one second that CNN isn’t still a shill for this administration and congressional Democrats, think again. Watch when CNN conducts | Read More »
Somewhere lost in all the discussion about the effect that Obamacare will have about this Fall’s Congressional elections is the fact that, should this legislation pass by any method – straight out vote or “deem and pass,” Obamacare will be a factor in each and every contested state legislative and gubernatorial election, as well. Idaho and Virginia and 35 other state legislatures have seen to | Read More »
Ok . . . so Spring is here and you’re outside doing the first few items on your honey-do list – the very first of which is clearing the brush and briarpatches out of the wooded area in front of your home. This was the project that your brother-in-law – yes, the same brother-in-law – suggested to your wife last Fall at your birthday party, | Read More »
Liz Cheney is coming under fire for the Keep America Safe video spot, which challenges Attorney General Eric Holder’s hiring of nine attorneys, who formerly represented terrorist detainees prior to their work in the Obama Justice Department – labeling seven of those whose identities are still unknown, as the “Al qaeda Seven.” Criticism is being leveled at Cheney both from the left and the right, with the Huffington Post gleefully | Read More »
Let me see, hmmm. First, we are asked to believe that global warming actually helped cause last month’s blizzards throughout the midwest and east coast. Now, we are asked to believe that the blizzards caused job losses. Now, you know, I mean you KNOW that someone in the White House is going to trot out the argument at some point soon that global warming causes | Read More »
We all know the age-old story oft-recounted by parents in response to a child’s foray into fibbing – you say a wolf is coming, once and it is not, twice and it is not, three times and it is not and each time the crowd comes to your rescue only to learn that it was a lie; and, then you say it a fourth time, | Read More »
In a terrific bit of good news at the EPA Budget hearings today, Obama Administration EPA Secretary Lisa Jackson has declared that the global warming crisis is over. Don’t believe this wonderful turn of events, then watch for yourself, about 56 minutes in. Quoting directly from the hearing, when Senator James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) asked Ms. Jackson whether she still considered the International Panel on Climate Change report | Read More »
Far be it from me to warn Democrats about impending election doom – frankly, I’d like to do nothing but increase the speed of the careening bus that will bring electoral disaster in 2010. But, from a purely ‘political junkie’ perspective, I continue to be amazed at the brazen acts of political suicide which appear to be the modus operandi not only on Capitol Hill, | Read More »
As CPAC ends its three day conference in Washington, D.C., we are undoubtedly heartened by the growing energy and passion which conservatives displayed. But, in order that we not lose the momentum as we head towards November, we need to remember the girl we brung to the dance. And, no, I don’t mean Sarah Palin . . . and not, Ann Coulter, either. The girl we | Read More »
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 »
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