November 1, 2009

The human capacity for innovation is limitless

Canadian farmer Gary Lewis spent 7 years developing a technology that may change the world.Mr. Lewis' process cools the exhaust from farm tractors and injects it into the soil. This process eliminates the need for fertilizer. This is a very exciting ...

October 29, 2009

The Other Chicago Way

The Obama Administration is constantly being berated by conservatives for acting in "The Chicago Way".As Sean Connery's character Jim Malone said in The Untouchables:"You wanna know how you do it? Here's how, they pull a knife, you pul...

October 26, 2009

Medicare Fraud - $60 Billion and Growing

60 Minutes has an excellent report on Medicare Fraud. Steve Kroft traveled South Florida with the FBI to investigate fraudulent medical equipment suppliers and fake self-storage garage pharmacies collecting millions of dollars per month from Medicare...

October 24, 2009

From Gitmo to our streets

Andrew C. McCarthy warns that closing Gitmo and transferring inmates to American prisons will end up with the release of battlefield detainees onto American streets.  From National Review:"Once they are here, we will have the perfect storm:...

October 23, 2009

Real 2009 Budget Deficit: $1,785,603,936,384.06

The recent publicly announced Federal Budget Deficit for 2009 is widely reported to be $1.4 trillion.This figure is inaccurate. Why? Because the Government made an "accounting change".The real deficit is easily determined.Thanks to a conven...

October 22, 2009

Step Down

In a May 2005 speech at a Conference on Media Reform, Mark Lloyd, the current Chief Diversity Officer at the Federal Communications Commission, said:"Because we have really, truly good white people in important positions. And the fact of the mat...

October 22, 2009

Doctor Fix Derailed

We're making progress on defeating ObamaCare.Yesterday, the Senate voted 53-47 not to end debate on S1776, the bill which would increase Medicare payments to doctors to the tune of $247 billion over 10 years. This vote effectively kills the bill in i...

October 20, 2009

Barry, Nancy, Harry and the Giant Peach

In Roald Dahl's wonderful children's book, James and the Giant Peach, the little boy James and some over-sized garden creatures trick thousands of seagulls into carrying a hollow, house-sized peach out of the ocean and up into the air to escape the s...

October 17, 2009

Splitting ObamaCare to Fool Public

There is no other word that is appropriate - Congress is full of slimebuckets.In order to preserve the fiction that Obamacare is deficit neutral, Congress has split Obamacare into two bills.One bill is the one that passed the Senate Finance Committee...

October 14, 2009

Train Wreck

The Baucus Health Reform Bill passed by the Senate Finance Committee yesterday is nanny state tax and spend liberalism on steroids.Every problem addressed in the bill has a solution such as "create a new commission", "create state-base...

October 10, 2009

Other Awards Obama Deserves to Win

After 11 days in office, President Barack Hussein Obama was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. This is obviously now a meaningless prize. So, what other meaningful prizes does President Obama deserve to win?The Cy Young Award for throwing the first p...

October 7, 2009

Where There's Smoke There's Fire

Rural New Yorkers have to obey a new regulation starting Oct. 14 banning "open burning" of garbage and other non-organic household wastes.However, this new regulation is not a surprise.  New York's Department of Environmental Conservat...

September 26, 2009

Cut Taxes? Are you crazy?

The movie Men in Black flashed into my mind as I was watching the Presidential motorcade roar by on Monday in Troy, NY.All those serious looking, clean cut men in their neatly pressed suits, sporting the requisite dark glasses, scanning the crowd loo...

September 6, 2009

A War on Two Fronts

I just finished reading The Places in Between by Rory Stewart, a chronicle of his walk across Afghanistan.The most significant observation I learned from the book was the closeness between Iran and Afghanistan. Almost every young man Stewart met had ...

September 3, 2009

Robocalls

I just received at robocall from Health Care for America Now telling me that a small group of right wing extremists and the greedy health insurance companies are putting pressure on my congressman to oppose the President's health care reform program....

August 16, 2009

Lies, lies and more lies

President Obama's lies in Montana were the most egregious falsehoods since Bill Clinton said "I did not have sexual relations with that woman".The current President was asked how the government is going to pay for the $1 trillion in new hea...

August 14, 2009

Obama's Pitchforks

"My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks" -- Barack Obama, meeting with the CEOs of the nation's 13 largest banks, Mar. 27, 2009Today, the only thing between the President and members of Congress and the Obama's m...

August 11, 2009

Town Hall in Upstate NY: Locals vs the Zombies

I went to a town hall meeting held by my Congressman Scott Murphy (D) yesterday. Here's my report.I found out about the meeting by searching Congressman Murphy's website.The notice was put up less than 24 hours before the meeting.I got to the meeting...

August 8, 2009

Thank Obama (a poem)

If you can't find a jobThank ObamaIf you can't pay the rentThank ObamaIf you have to ‘poligize for the good ole USA Don't thank Bush, or Dick Cheney, Thank ObamaIf you're fraid of getting nukedThank ObamaIf you can't afford to driveThank ObamaI...