March 29, 2011

Thank You, President Obama

In your speech Monday night, you managed to completely justify and agree with the USA's campaign to prevent Communism from spreading throughout Asia, Central and South America, throughout Africa and great swaths of Europe. You've managed to uproot th...

December 28, 2010

USA.gov New Year's Resolution Suggestions

Since Barack Obama's people put him behind his own pretend Presidential Candidate podium and his very own and well traveled teleprompter, we've been confronted with an aggressive hubris rarely seen even in the outsized ego-driven world of power polit...

December 21, 2010

Food Freedom of Choice Still Possible

The politicians have done what they do best -- stab their own constituents in the back when there is the least amount of light shining on the political process.   Sunday evening around 11:30 pm, the U.S. Senate slapped the so-called Fo...

October 30, 2010

Stunning (updated)

[Editor's note: see important update below, and these two entries for a more complete view: What Part of 'Everlasting Possession' Does This Man Not Understand?; Sister Rose and the Vatican Synod ] The Vatican has called for Israel to end its occ...

June 19, 2010

Hey 9/11 Truthers! Is this a conspiracy too?

The Delft University of Technology, Architecture School collapsed in a pancake reaction to a fire. Let me repeat that .... the School Of Architecture. I'm highly doubtful they built a deficient building for themselves. Steel frame high rise...

April 26, 2010

A Hero's Repose

This is what a hero is. Not sports figures, not people who are doing their jobs under tough conditions. A hero is: spending the last measure of your own life in service to others you swore to preserve and protect. Bonus:  an off-the boat Uk...

March 16, 2010

ObamaCare's New Public Health Workforce Corps

Lurking within the recently-released Reconciliation bill is a brand new corps of government workers.Page 911 of the 2010 Reconciliation PDF. Section 2231. ‘‘Subpart XII-Public Health Workforce2 ‘‘SEC. 340L. PUBLIC HEALTH WORKF...

March 9, 2010

Apparently those foreign tourists are very free spenders

The AP reports that last year 2.4 million fewer tourists visited the US, which cost the American economy  $509 billion. This means that foreign tourism in the US brings in an average of $212,000 per person. In related news, there is st...

March 7, 2010

The objective is not the enemy's defeat?

Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been explaining the new US approach to war in a series of speeches. Greg Jaffe of the Washington Post writes:The speeches, delivered at Kansas State University and the Army's Fort Leaven...

December 17, 2009

The war on the dollar escalates

The dollar's role in world trade is declining almost as rapidly as the federal government is conjuring fiat money out of thin air. The latest blow comes with the creation of a Gulf Monetary Council, with the aim of establishing a multinational petro-...

August 3, 2009

Obama channels Robert A. Heinlein

The dean of science fiction writers anticipated the arrival of Barack Obama and his cash for clunkers nonsense. As instructional videos teach people how to disable a perfectly fine Volvo to qualify to be scrapped in exchange for cash, here is what He...

August 2, 2009

Cash for clunkers picks winners and losers

The unfair market advantage produced by the Cash For Clunkers program is notable, yet seems to draw no scrutiny. Government meddling with the market has dramatic advantages for a few car dealers and shuts others out completely. No level playing field...

July 23, 2009

Dear Professor Gates (updated)

Dear Professor Gates,I know you are a tenured Harvard profesor, but I think you have a few things to learn about dealing with police. Please review the following lesson from Chris Rock, titled "How not to get your ass kicked by the police!...

October 21, 2008

Palin in Colorado

Media says about 10,000 attended the event in Mesa County, Colorado. This account from Hillary's people has it about right ... somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 ... stunningIn a town of about 100,000. Do the math; that's roughly one of out of every...

May 19, 2007

Al Gore's New Book Assault on Reason: Two Views

An Aptly Title Tome, by Christopher J. AllevaAl Gore has most assuredly secured his place in the pantheon of modern media deities, right along side Paris Hilton and Sean Penn. His legacy as a senator and later vice president may be lackluster, but he...