May 5, 2010

A new source of Chicago Way slush monies for Obama's favorite groups

Earlier in the year, Ed Lasky wrote a column ("Obama, the Chicago Boys, and Their 30 Billion Dollar Slush Fund") regarding extraordinary efforts by the administration to shield a new 30 billion dollar small-business lending program from go...

October 6, 2009

The Shifting Political Sand Pile

Why did the Tea Party / Town Hall protests surprise so many in the political establishment?  Why did they make Democrats recoil in horror and send Republicans running for cover when confronted by them?  Why did the White House claim to be u...

March 5, 2008

Republican at a Texas Democrat Caucus

Hillary Clinton as president concerns me, greatly.  Barack Obama as president makes my charlatan antenna vibrate, wildly.  So I voted for Clinton and attended my assigned Texas Democrat caucus.There were probably 250 people there.  Cro...

February 26, 2008

Five More Thoughts About Obamamania

1.  If Hillary Clinton is going to be effective against Obama, she needs to find a new voice.  Currently, she is trying to do for oscillation what Bill did for triangulation.  She first found her voice in New Hampshire, and then turned...

February 21, 2008

Six Thoughts on Obamamania

1.  It seems remarkable that Barack Obama is in striking distance of winning the Democratic presidential nomination despite the naked ambition he demonstrated in a Kindergarten essay, his defense of political eloquence by using another politicia...