Tomorrow Utah will hold its primary elections to decide who will go on to represent the 3rd district in the U.S. House of Representatives. I’m voting for Jason Chaffetz. I’m voting for him because I agree with him on most issues. He’s off on Iraq but so are almost all Republicans and there is no […]
Well it looks like Mr. “cling to their guns and god” Obama lost PA tonight. Is anyone surprised? Thanks, Barry for keeping the party going. Keep up those inspirational speeches and elitist statements. Heck, if you do, we may run this thing strait into the convention.
Good work, team! Good work…
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OK, I said I would “mostly” stop blogging about politics but I can’t let some recent observations on the Democratic candidates slide.
This story from the New York Times about sums it up:
The battle between Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama over whether Mr. Obama belittled voters in small towns appears to have hardened the […]
Caroline Baum writes via Bloomberg:
“Any day, I expect some government official to unveil the John Galt plan to save the economy.
Galt, the hero of Ayn Rand’s magnum opus ‘Atlas Shrugged,’ stops the world by going on strike. He and the ‘men of the mind’ literally withdraw from the world after watching their wealth confiscated by […]
I found this video on YouTube about Net Neutrality. It gives a pretty good overview of the issue in about 10 minutes. I suggest you watch this video to understand what phone and cable companies are trying to do to control the Internet much in the same way they control content on radio and television…
I’m […]
America is the greatest nation the world has ever known. Our achievements in science, medicine, technology, etc are unsurpassed. Consider the following:
A ragtag group of “insurgents” beat Great Britain and founded the United States.
We led at the forefront of the industrial revolution.
In 1917 we had the 17th largest military in the world. At the end […]
When I read this article on the out of control cost of the so called “war on terrorism” I am reminded of an old saying that frequently enters my mind: ideas have consequences. In the case of the war on terror you could also take that one step further and say that opinions have consequesnces.
The […]
I think this opinion piece published in the San Francisco Chronicle is incredibly important to read. So I’ve copied the whole thing here for your enlightenment. I added the bold in case you only have time to skim it.
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Rule by fear or rule by law?
by Lewis Seiler and former US Congressman Dan Hamburg
“The power […]
From the NYT:
“A female lobbyist had been turning up with him (McCain) at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her […]
I believe I’ve posted this video before but given David Walker just announced his retirement, I wanted to post it again. If you really want to understand the financial mess we’re in take 9:38 and watch the following video:
I can only hope that David Walker’s exit to the Pete Peterson Foundation will help him get his […]
