October 31, 2009

Are the Democrats Really This Desperate?

For as long as they've existed, politicians have bent language to avoid saying things that sound unpleasant. Once upon a time, the players in the major league of Washington, D.C. politics at least told their versions of truth with eloquence and style...

October 2, 2009

The GOP and its Confusion

Here we go again.  We've seen this scenario many times before:  1. Politicians propose legislation sure to cost the productive classes billions more of their money;  2. Seeing little benefit from the proposal, citizens show their ...

September 21, 2009

Jimmy Carter's Sanctimonious Guilt

The recent exploitation of racism by former President Jimmy Carter reminds me of something I detected long ago in a lot of Americans from his generation.  After I could conjure a description for it, I found that it helped me understand many memb...