“I Will Not Sign a Healthcare Bill That Raises The Deficit by One Dime…Not One Dime!”

December 28, 2009

President Barack Obama, September 9th, 2009
Really? It would appear, then, the historic moment that the left wing of the Democratic Party is awaiting with such anticipation may be remembered as the moment the President of the United States vetoed the healthcare bill when it finally arrived at his desk citing the statement quoted above. [...]

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A RUDE AWAKENING FOR THE HOLIDAYS

December 21, 2009

What the government is delivering to everyone’s stocking: brand new regulations, tax bills, insurance premiums, penalties, higher federal budgets and deficits. Something for everyone for the holidays from your friendly elected officials in Washington who are steering the country into uncharted statist territory and spending trillions along the way. The extreme left is, [...]

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Man-Caused Climate Change (and other) Advococracies: A Perversion of Science

December 14, 2009

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair
The causes, effects and even the certainty of global warming and climate change may be a settled consensus among some politicians, academicians, environmental writers, bureaucratic regulators and even a chorus of scientists, but it is, by [...]

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The Gathering Storm: The Sorrowful State of Education in America

December 7, 2009

Let’s not kid ourselves. Public education in America is a growing disgrace, breathtakingly so in our major urban areas. It is a disgrace that is going to cost us dearly. In a world rushing toward technological and scientific innovation at warp speed, America has, according to the Council on Competitiveness, declined to [...]

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Afghanistan: A decision long overdue

November 30, 2009

At long last, President Obama plans to make the much-awaited announcement on his Afghanistan policy decision in a prime-time televised address to the nation. Perhaps we are a “day late and a dollar short,” as they say, writing about his delay at this late stage, but his procrastination, we call it dithering, has reached [...]

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Three-Way Tie for Worst Legislation Ever: PelosiReidCare, Smoot-Hawley, Volstead Act

November 23, 2009

The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 and the Volstead Act of 1920 would make almost every historian’s list of really bad legislation. But should Nancy Pelosi’s H.R. 3962, the so called Affordable Health Care for America Act, or the separate Senate version introduced by Majority Leader Reid ever become law it may eclipse those legislative [...]

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Another Islamic Attack: Déjà vu All Over Again

November 16, 2009

The attack at Fort Hood last week was yet another shot across the bow of America and the civilized world warning of the threat facing us now and in the years ahead. Yet again an Islamic fundamentalist, this one an American, not schooled at a radical madrassa, serves as a reminder of just how [...]

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“Mumbo Jumbo:” Revisiting a Broadway Tune

November 9, 2009

Inside the beltway it would appear that “Mumbo Jumbo,” Anthony Newley’s extremely amusing song about political blather and doublespeak from the 1961 smash musical “Stop the World, I Want To Get Off,” was introduced nearly fifty years too soon.
In the political environment prevailing early in the 21st century, “Mumbo Jumbo” should be the theme song [...]

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Crossing the Rubicon:

November 2, 2009

The Major Push Toward American Statism
The historically famous crossing of the River Rubicon, just north of San Marino in Northern Italy, is not much remembered as the flashpoint where Caesar touched off civil war in 49 B.C. Instead, it is thought of by most people as a point in a course of action from which [...]

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Federal Intimidation of Opposing Voices

October 26, 2009

It Has Happened Before.
It Is Happening Again.
Free speech, many would say, is the most precious of all our rights. It is embodied in the very first of the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment to the Constitution. Generally, it has been the most widely quoted and understood of all of our rights….generally, but [...]

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