April 7, 2017

Our Congress, hard at work

Our men and women in Congress have a really challenging work schedule.  Here is a link to a PDF screen of their schedule for 2017. It seems that the Senate has 77 days of recess.  That number does not include weekends (whi...

November 2, 2016

Why This Woman?

One of the putative reasons Hillary is running (and being run by the DNC) is so that she can be known to history as the first female POTUS. But why would Americans want such a despicable -- nay, corrupt -- person to be elected to that high level...

October 28, 2016

Women: Don't lose sight of the potential harm

In a recent post here on AT, Leesa Donner describes how the Clinton candidacy is thought to offer women a chance to even the score.  But will a President Clinton really do that?  She certainly has no record – only a stream of rhetoric...

October 27, 2016

Sure, by all means, write to your representative

Paul Ryan is not my congressman.  But as speaker of the House, he has a special email access site by which any American can contact him.  I decided I'd had enough of his negative attitude to Donald Trump's candidacy.  So I sent...

March 10, 2016

How detached from reality can they get?

It's amazing how detached from reality some politicians and political donors can get.  In an excellent article regarding the establishment's reluctant backing of Ted Cruz, Rick Moran makes the point that many establishment Republicans ar...

February 21, 2016

Why Cruz and Not Trump

My friend Jim and I have a running debate via e-mail about the candidacy of Donald Trump. I maintain he is not presidential material in any way while Jim thinks he is the best of those running.  His argument is that Trump wants to build a w...

January 23, 2016

What has Sarah done?

Sarah Palin was our heroine.  She was a true-blue conservative.  She brought the crowds at conferences to their feet with her sound, sensible, and thoroughgoing blasts at the establishment.  She always insisted that we stay true to the...

October 18, 2014

Justice Ginsburg has it backwards

In her dissent to the Supreme Court’s ruling that Texas could enforce its voter ID law, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote: "The greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully...