May 2, 2011

Obama and Susie's Lemonade Stand

Verizon has a great Ad running on TV which sums up the quintessential American Dream, B.O. (Before Obama), in thirty-two seconds:The story told and retold through out American History from the beginning.  Some one -- anyone with an idea -- for b...

April 15, 2011

One-Hundred & Fifty Years and a Day

One hundred and fifty years ago, April 12th, 1861, the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, this event marked the "official" beginning" of the U.S. Civil War.The War that began as an argument as to whether or not States had the right to ...

August 26, 2010

If Hillary had the character of Elin Nordegren she might be President now.

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April 17, 2010

Republicans: Stop the Gimmicks

The current Republican leadership proposes that America needs a "New Contract" [i].Why?We already have the finest social contract/compact ever devised by mankind. The historical basis of the Republican Party is to stand firm on those fundam...

March 12, 2010

No, Nancy - We don't need to pass health care reform to find out what's in it

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December 24, 2009

The Passing of America

One of the most stirring moments of Ken Burns’ Public television classic, The Civil War, was David McCullough’s reading of a last love letter written a week before the first battle of Bull Run by Major Sullivan Ballou of the Second Rhod...

November 1, 2009

Buffalo Gas

I would be a liberal if I could just figure out exactly what it is that they want. For years liberals have been trying to make us feel guilty because hunters and cowboys slaughtered the Native American buffalo population thereby killing off the Ameri...

October 20, 2009

Obama another Balloon Dad?

It is interesting to see the Main Stream Media’s outrage over Richard Heene the alleged Balloon Boy Hoaxer. The following is from the N.Y.  Daily News: We've had enough of this couple, who thought it would be fun to fool the country into b...

September 3, 2009

From Messiah to Clown

As Barack Obama prepares to address grammar and preschoolers on September 8th in an effort to propagandize the little tykes, isn’t it clear that the Obama/Axelrod team’s strategy is taking a page right out of Ronald McDonald’s/Wendy...

July 25, 2009

Michael Vick's Community Service

Michael Vick begins serving his community service at the Humane Society, next week, as a condition of release on his federal dog fighting conviction. I have a suggestion, providing of course that the Humane Society could spare him for a day. Send Mic...

July 18, 2009

The Hero of Chappaquiddick

The Incident that saved America from a Teddy Kennedy Presidency occurred forty years ago today. As true American heroes Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were streaking their way to the Moon on Apollo 11; the Hero of Chappaquiddick earn...

July 16, 2009

If you love the Internal Revenue Service ...

"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."That is the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. C...

July 13, 2009

Sarah Palin's Declaration of Independence

Sarah Palin, by virtue of her resignation and remarks, has now positioned herself to disrupt the status quo and send much needed shock waves through the entire American political system. It should not be lost on anyone that she made her resignation a...

June 5, 2009

NASA's Latest Discovery: Sun Heats the Earth

Robert Calahan at NASA’s Goddard Space Center could be in big trouble -- for telling the truth. Here is a headline for an article in the Daily Tech:"NASA Study Acknowledges Solar Cycle, Not Man, Responsible for Past Warming"Here are ...

May 14, 2009

Pelosi accuses the CIA of lying to her

Nancy Pelosi apparently has not learned the first lesson of Washington, D.C.: When you are in a hole, stop digging. At her press conference this morning the Speaker accused the CIA of lying to Congress on the subject of Enhanced Interrogation Techniq...

May 8, 2009

Three Score and Four Years Ago

Let us not forget:May 8, 1945United States Department of State Bulletin. This is a solemn but a glorious hour. General Eisenhower informs me that the forces of Germany have surrendered to the United Nations. The flags of freedom fly over all Eur...

April 27, 2009

Gitmo Detainees may be moved to Montana

An article with a sensational headline "Hardin jail tries for detainees from Gitmo," recently appeared in the Billings Montana Gazette. It provides a glimpse into some fundamental problems with big government solutions and the Obama agenda....

April 8, 2009

More Electric Car Follies

Isaac Martin pointed out in yesterday ’s American Thinker some of the problems with the new technology behind the proposed switch to electric cars -- there are many other issues as well.A few of a multitude of problems are the high cost of the ...

April 4, 2009

Coming soon: Obama to GM, 'We Own You'

Now that Obama runs GM ... what about advertising for the company?Dick Morris’s blog in TheHill.com on March 31, 2009 gives us a clue:GM, now renamed Government Motors, has a new CEO: President Barack Obama.By replacing the head of the company ...

March 29, 2009

The New Contract with America

I confess. I cheated. Mark Levin’s new book “Liberty and Tyranny” arrived yesterday; I immediately skipped to the back to read the Epilogue. As I had hoped and expected, I found a list of ten items that Mark has suggested as reform...

March 22, 2009

AIG -- It's the Contracts!

There seems to be a simple fact missing from all of the coverage of the AIG “bonus” fiasco: the sanctity of contracts. Congress can not be allowed to violate them. Altering a contract’s terms is the function of the parties to the co...

March 20, 2009

The Problems with Demonizing Bonuses

Among the problems with demonizing bonuses is that it seems to inadvertently make populist out of otherwise conservative commentators and politicians. By engaging in an argument about the validity of AIG executives receiving bonuses, one has already ...

March 11, 2009

Al Gore Ducks Warming Debate (Updated)

In an article in today's Wall Street Journal, John Fund reports that Al Gorehas refused to appear with Czech President Vaclav Klaus:Once again Al Gore has ducked the chance to debate critics of his globalwarming doomsday predictions. The former vice...

March 9, 2009

Obama's Political Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome

In the field of Psychiatry, Munchausen by Proxy is a disease of a child's custodian, usually a mother, who induces sickness, real or imagined in her child (sometimes resulting in death) in order to gain sympathy and to portray herself as the heroine....

February 25, 2009

'Wrong Way' Obama

Last night, with his faux State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama lifted off on a flight of dramatic rhetoric that will attempt to take America in exactly the wrong direction. His speech was reminiscent of a...

February 17, 2009

Obama's Mistaken Political Calculation

Abraham Lincoln famously said: "A house divided can not stand."The 2009 Obama version is: "A house of cards will stand forever."God or the Devil is in the details.The long term problem with Obama's recent political victory the pas...

February 9, 2009

Cooking American Frogs

“We Are All Socialists Now” is a Newsweek article co-authored by Evan Thomas and Jon Meacham. Evan Thomas is the grandson of six-time Socialist Party of America presidential candidate Norman Thomas .Could it be that socialism is taking a...

January 21, 2009

Why the Outlandish Lincoln Comparison?

I lost my father when I was young. I was seventeen years old. His death was the direct result of years of alcohol abuse. His death came at precisely the time when I needed a father most. The knowledge gained from that event has given me the perspecti...

January 18, 2009

Not so Green Solar Energy

You think solar electrical generation is going to save you or the Planet? Think again.While it is true that photovoltaic solar panels do not pollute while they are producing electricity -- what about the manufacturing process? What happens when these...

January 16, 2009

Experience does Count

For well over two years the Democrat Party and the mainstream media have relentlessly tried to make the case that experience and character don't count.The leader of the free world is actually an entry-level position. All that matters is hope and chan...

January 4, 2009

The Obamabahn

During the recently completed presidential campaign, President-elect Barack Obama and his supporters have been flailing around trying to find the presidential identity to make the inexperienced Senator seem worthy of the Office.The comparisons have r...

December 25, 2008

Christmas from Lunar Orbit 1968

Here is the Christmas greeting from the crew of Apollo 8 as they orbited the moon forty years ago. They recited the first ten verses from the Book of Genesis, the King James Version:William Anders  We are now approaching lunar sunrise and, for a...

December 23, 2008

A Scheme With No Off Button

Ever wonder why the New York Times can report on a Ponzi scheme in the private sector and be totally oblivious to the Ponzi scheme that the U.S. Government has been running right under the Gray Lady's nose for seventy-five years? This hustle is calle...

November 23, 2008

NBC's Green Machine

News from the Washington Post:NBC Universal made the first of potentially several rounds of staffing cuts at The Weather Channel (TWC) on Wednesday, axing the entire staff of the "Forecast Earth" environmental program during the middle of N...

November 15, 2008

Politicians Then and Now

George Washington was acutely aware that his presidency would set the course for all that followed. No where is that clearer than the way that Washington handled the "Whiskey Rebellion" that began August 1, 1794 near the end of his first te...

October 28, 2008

Women 3, Biden 0

For the third time in a row Vice Presidential Candidate Joe Biden's thin skin and arrogance have been exposed by a woman.The first time, Sarah Palin scored an historical gottcha in the vice presidential debate with just five words: "Say it ain't...

September 12, 2008

The Sarah Surge

The Sarah Surge is the second "Surge" that John McCain has correctly conceived of. This latest "Surge" is pure genius.The last two weeks have shown that, much of America has not been waiting for the Obamamessiah.Rather, "The ...

August 19, 2008

Obama's name displaces a real president's

The World-renowned Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, Colorado has changed the décor of room number 825 by removing the pictures of (an actual) President Dwight D. Eisenhower.According to Ackle.com the suite of rooms formerly known as the Dwight D....

August 9, 2008

That 3 AM phone call

Remember that 3 A.M. phone call Hillary used to advertise about?  Maybe it came from a men's room at the Beverly Hilton?Enquiring reporters had accepted John Edwards challenge to prove their allegations of an affair between an ex-New York "...

August 8, 2008

Krugman in denial on energy

Apparently a  NYT columnist is in denial over fact that the spot market oil price has dropped 20% in three weeks since President Bush removed the Executive Branch's ban on offshore drilling.In a piece entitled "Know nothing Politi...

July 29, 2008

Did the Obama campaign 'play' Judaism's most holy spot

Maariv, the Israeli newspaper that was criticized for publishing the note Obama left in the Western Wall (the "Wailing Wall"), now claims the note was leaked to it by the Obama campaign.Israel Insider reports:a Maariv spokesperson says...

July 25, 2008

How to defeat Democrats

Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) shows the Republicans the path to defeating the Democrats in November by verbally thrashing Robert Wexler (D-MD) & Chris Mathews ( D-MSNBC) in a televised discussion. Mark Finkelstein of Newsbusters provides a...

July 4, 2008

GW's War

Democratic republics never engage in war willingly. Wars are never popular for long. More often than not their wars are the result of a direct provocation or threat.Tyrannies, by contrast, wage war to obfuscate the misery of their exploited citizenry...

June 6, 2008

D Day remembered (updated)

Today is the 64th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France, and is the day following the anniversary of Ronald Reagan's death. What better way to commemorate both events than to read Reagan's great speech on the 40th Anniversary about the ...

May 12, 2008

The nuclear waste over/under

A leading foe of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal facility in Nevada has left a peculiarly-worded request for the disposal of his earthly remains.The following is from today's New York Times: Joseph R. Egan, a nuclear engineer-turned-lawyer ...

May 7, 2008

The Democrats' choice

Despite a large field of presidential cadidates initially, the Democrats never had anything better than a Hobson's Choice. To wit: which lousy horse do you want ride?Out of all their initial candidates the most qualified (at least from the management...

May 3, 2008

Kentucky Derby an omen?

The filly Eight bells, enthusiastically backed by Hillary Clinton, came in second in the Kentucky Derby. ABC News reports:Sen. Clinton repeated her desire for the filly to be victorious - saying to a crowd in Jeffersonville, Indiana saying she was se...