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• Eisenhower warned about military-industrial complex: He was right: President Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning about military-industrial complex was well founded.
• Cain campaign might want to try ‘Blank Stare’ approach: Herman Cain’s handlers in his bid for the GOP presidential nomination should look at today’s comic strips and consider “The Blank Stair Campaign.” The idea came to me today after [...]
• Debt ceiling agreement was travesty, not real compromise: The recently passed and signed last-minute debt ceiling deal proved to be a real travesty, NOT a real compromise. Compromise implies that both sides gain something they wanted or needed, [...]
• Is there any way to re-elect President Clinton? He understands economics: Is there any way we might sort of “side step” the presidential term limits amendment and run Bill Clinton for president again? Please? He seems to be one of the [...]
• Federal budget cuts, budget ceiling are two different issues: Federal budget cuts and the budget ceiling or debt ceiling are two different issues, and you’d think members of Congress would be smart enough to figure that out. But Sen. [...]
• Don’t fall for GOP trick to dismantle Medicare: Don’t fall for the latest GOP trick to dismantle Medicare: Paul Ryan’s Medicare “plan” means nothing but bad, more expensive health care coverage for the elderly. I urge you to [...]
• Kind words about Richard Nixon? Hard to believe, I know …: As someone who grew up in the 1950s-’60s-’70s, I find it hard to believe that I would ever have much good to say about President Richard M. (“I am not [...]
• Nut-wing media, politicians know no shame about Muslim Center furor: If it were even remotely possible for those lambasting our eyes and ears from the nut-wing media — especially Fox News and most conservative talk radio — to feel any [...]
• Election follies moving into full mode — they never really ended: I have taken my “election year” vows again — I hope to be equally hostile to ALL major political parties as the politicians ramp up full-speed toward the political abyss [...]
• Older I get, more I enjoy my sense of humor about politics, religion: I find that the older I get, the more I appreciate having an active sense of humor — particularly when it comes to the Big Duo of cultural discussion here [...]
• Hillary Clinton for Supreme Court? Downright silly, I think: I just had a great laugh as I was looking at some online articles on Google News: There is supposedly legitimate speculation that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may be [...]
• Have you returned your Census Form yet? Only once or did you do it twice??: Have you returned your U.S. Census Form (or questionnaire or whatever you want to call it) yet? You should. On the other hand, as Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show” [...]
• Now health care bills ‘reconciliation’ begins — ugh!: Imagine having two pieces of legislation on the same subject, let’s say for example, health care. One bill has been passed by the House; one by the Senate. What happens [...]
• Big showdown nears on health care reform in Senate: If you’ve seen any news to speak of in the last couple of days, you know that Senate leader Harry Reid is calling for a vote on whether they will [...]
• News overload? Probably time to give it a rest: One thing I’m learning about myself since starting this blog — it’s really easy to get burned out about all the idiocy going on in today’s world. You can take [...]
• My best guess: ‘Real-life’ health care reform is dead: My very best guess about health care battles currently dominating our nation would be this: In “real life,” we are not going to get truly significant health care reform. It’s [...]
• So-called ‘birthers’ display continued ignorance, arrogance: Not long ago, I posted a video dealing with the idiotic so-called “birthers” and their insistence that President Obama’s was not really born in the U.S. and is, therefore, constitutionally [...]
• Obama birth certificate story put to rest for all but nuts out there: I swear, one of the most insane, nutty issues surrounding President Obama has got to be the paranoia surrounding his birth certificate. Here’s a video you need to see. It [...]
• What ‘lessons’ can we learn from Gov. Sanford’s affair?: Once again, a high-profile politician bites the dust. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford held a press conference yesterday to confess his infidelity to his wife, and his failure to “be [...]
• Skateboarding icon Hawk hits White House hallways: To the amazement of some and amusement of others, pro skateboarding icon Tony Hawk rolled through some of the hallways of the White House as part of a Father’s Day [...]
• ‘Dumbest Generation’ book title may have something: I tried to find something at BookTV.org linking to the video of an interview they did with a writer named Mark Bauerlein, about his recent book, “The Dumbest Generation.” Unfortunately, [...]
• Bush shows class in his ‘silence’ regarding Obama: Since putting on the riding breeches and mounting up Old Paint to ride off into the ex-President sunset, President George W. Bush has remained mostly silent about his successor, President [...]
• Quick everyone, send a thank-you email to Newt Gingrich: Sometimes conservative Republican politicians just puzzle me; sometimes they astound me. In the case of former Rep. Newt Gingrich, the term would be “astound.” Here’s a guy who left the [...]
• Ex-VP Cheney just can’t get facts straight about 9/11, can he?: I continue to be amazed at all the attention former Vice President Dick Cheney gets in the media, and today I ran onto a case of him trying again to [...]
• I hate it when Obama’s critics rail against him for ‘socialism’: Boy, I hate it when critics of President Obama rail against him with accusations of “socialism,” especially since most of them 1) know NOTHING about real socialism, and, 2) on [...]
• Obama blasts Chrysler investors, stands behind company’s workers: I was fascinated at the little I caught of the President’s news conference today in which he blasted some of the Chrysler debt-holders and openly stated he was standing behind [...]
• Socialist? Obama? Not hardly — says editor of ‘Socialist’ magazine: Is President Obama a Socialist or not? To hear the hue and cry of all the conservatives (many of whom are far from true conservatism) in the media — talk [...]
• Sen. McCain calls out the President on helicopter contracts — handled well or not?: Sen. McCain called out President Obama on a contract for White House helicopters at a press conference yesterday and it got a lot of media play by the networks. But [...]
• Wishing for some serious healthcare reform, but may not happen: I’m wishing for some serious healthcare reform, based on President Obama’s good intentions during the campaign, but that may not happen, at least for some time. I suspect getting something [...]
• Here’s hoping the stimulus plan will help the economy: Here’s hoping that gigantic federal stimulus plan will help the economy. Despite what Rush Limbaugh and others have said, it really is in the best interest of us all to [...]
• Still waiting — on both economic stimulus AND Super Bowl …: SO — here we are 10 days into President Obama’s presidency, and we’re still waiting on the economic stimulus plan AND the Super Bowl. As you may recall, in my [...]
• Rush Limbaugh to world: ‘I hope he fails’: Yeah, perhaps you’ve already seen coverage of Rush Limbaugh’s remarks yesterday concerning Barack Obama — he hopes the president fails. That’s right. While 99 percent of the nation sees how [...]
• Everyone should hope, pray for President Obama’s success — then work to help it happen: I just finished watching the Inauguration of President Barak Obama and I was struck again by the HUGE turnout. I’ve jokingly posted here references to Obama as “Messiah” or Obama [...]
• Would you go to the Inauguration if you could? Or perhaps you are?: I don’t know whether any of you reading this are headed to D.C. for Barack Obama’s Inauguration or not — but would you if you could? Assuming you had whatever [...]
• Only bad Bible exegesis says U.S. must ALWAYS back Israeli actions: Really bad Bible exegesis says the U.S. must ALWAYS back Israeli actions, no matter what Israel decides to do, no matter how the react to opposition, no matter how they [...]
• Interesting bunch for lunch at White House today: What an interesting “lunch bunch” is gathering at the White House right now! How cool is this country, really? We battle over politics daily at every level. Politicians back-stab and [...]
• Democrats in Senate just plain wrong on Sen. Roland Burris: I truly believe the Democrats in the Senate are just plain wrong on refusing to seat Sen. Roland Burris, the newly appointed junior Senator from Illinois. Hello in there, Sen. [...]
• Left, center, or right? Where do you see yourself on the political spectrum: A post I wrote last week about President-Elect Obama generated several comments. That’s wonderful as far as I’m concerned — even though I would not agree with the political stance, [...]
• I wish you the very best of everything for 2009!: My very best wishes go out to you for 2009! I saw a cartoon in today’s local paper with a guy and his wife barricaded in their home, speaking to [...]
• Is Obama the Messiah or the Aniti-Christ?: Odd question in this title, I suppose: Is Barack Obama the Messiah or the Anti-Christ? I pose this silly question as hyperbole — I personally believe he is neither. He’s [...]
• One of history’s men of mystery, Mark Felt, dies at 95: If you grew up during the era of “Watergate” and Richard Nixon’s presidency, you might remember Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, and the others involved with bringing the Nixon “Watergate” scandal [...]
• Seems to me that Bush, Obama would both prefer moving now: I’ve forgotten now which public official — maybe a Senator? Congressman? — I saw in a news clip on CNN yesterday, but he was actually suggesting we might want to [...]
• How I did with major presidential election prediction — I was probably too cynical: Not long ago, I predicted, cynically, that American voters would be so taken by “cutesy” Sarah Palin and war hero John McCain that McCain-Palin would win the election. Happily, I [...]
• Are you ready for the political rat race(s) to end? Make sure you vote!: I don’t care what “rats” you’re cheering on in the race, you must be as eager as I am to see this electoral rat race to end, aren’t you? (Please [...]
• Hockey mom and kids needed to see the Big City — on Alaska’s ticket: Who would begrudge Gov. Sarah Palin using a little money from the State of Alaska to take her kids on a trip to the Big City? Anyone out there that [...]
• Lighten up, the hockey mom needed fancy clothes for the campaign trail: Okay, I have no problem with a political campaign, or political resources from the RNC in this case, being used to help a candidate look good for campaign appearances. The [...]
• Wow — Powell crosses party lines, endorses Obama for president: I don’t know whether he would want me telling you this, but a very close relative of mine — very close — who is a conservative Republican once served closely [...]
• Thanks to McCain, Letterman for the political change-of-pace: humor for a change: Every election campaign offers its share of humor, most of it unintentional, i.e., debate gaffs or stump speech gaffs, even the choices of political candidates running for office. But it [...]
• Election Day is coming — be sure you get out and vote!: Thank goodness the American elections are almost over. I hope you’ll get out and vote. I don’t care who you vote for, as long as you’re voting your conscience. That’s [...]
• Lipstick lady did all right in VP debate, I thought: Despite all the silliness since Gov. Palin was named Sen. McCain’s running mate, she and Sen. Biden were able to put much of it behind them and give us a [...]
• What, really, is the best treatment for our economic crises?: With all the talk of the failed bailout, someone needs to ask the question — What, really, is the best treatment for our economic crises? In my family, someone very [...]
• Boneheads in Congress abandoned their leadership roles: It’s one thing for us average-know-nothing-much-about-economics Americans to resist a $700+ billion economic bailout plan. It’s a different matter for those self-serving boneheads we call Congressmen and Congresswomen to miss [...]
• Has our economy fundamentally changed, or have people just dropped the ball?: I’ve often thought that people who are surprised by national events are generally just people who are ignorant of our nation’s history. It’s all happened before, really, hasn’t it? This [...]
• If we elect McCain-Palin, the joke’s on US!: If Americans, through apathy or idiocy, elect the McCain-Palin ticket in November, the jokes on all of us. Presidential campaigns and political campaigns in general are usually built upon various [...]
• Sarah Palen’s candidacy is the most patronizing selection ever made by a presidential candidate: If I were a woman voter, I would be outraged by Sen. John McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s selection as his vice presidential running mate. Heck, I’m not [...]
• Somewhere between religious extremes lies the real Candidate Palin: I’ve been a “religious” person all my life, and that ranges from the fundamentalist evangelicalism and Pentecostalism of my teen and early adult years all the way over to the [...]
• I’m almost as weary about presidential candidates as I am about that little insurance lizard: When G**CO started using that goofy little animatron/animated/whatever lizard to advertise their car insurance, I thought it was a cute play on the type of lizard (gecko) and the company’s [...]
• Speaking from Old Guy experience myself, I don’t think we want an Old Guy for president: Not meaning to speak disrespectfully of the dead, I recall how puzzling it was when President Reagan testified in the Iran-Contra hearings. Time after time, he said in effect, “I [...]
• To vote party lines or not to vote party lines — that is the question: I’ve let it be known over the months in this running babble that, regarding political affiliation I consider myself a left-of-center-to-downright-liberal Democrat on most issues. I’ve even gone so far [...]
• Never forget what the election is REALLY about — the economy: It seems wise, as we look forward now to the November presidential battle between Deep Pockets Obama and War Hero McCain, to remember what people who vote in presidential elections [...]
• Democrats have a long road to travel to achieve unity: I was reading a report online about Hillary Clinton’s big speech today in which she enthusiastically endorsed Barak Obama and urged her supporters to get behind Obama’s presidential candidacy. According [...]
• My personal suggestion for Sen. Hillary Clinton’s future: It doesn’t look as though Hillary Clinton will need to call on any New York moving company to help her get her furniture back into the White House. She may [...]
• Read McClellan’s ‘tell all’ yet? Me neither; probably won’t bother: I admire Scott McClellan’s honesty. I think. I say “think,” because 1) I haven’t really read the book, only snatches and reviews about it, and, 2) I don’t know whether [...]
• Odd twist and turn to the gas tax suspension proposals: I wrote last week about the ridiculous pandering going on by Sen. McCain and Sen. Clinton regarding a suspension of the federal gasoline tax during the summer travel season. I [...]
• Hillary Clinton’s presidential race has just about run it’s course — what’s next for her?: With news that Utah just added a superdelegate to Barack Obama’s total, it’s looking more and more like it’s curtains for Hillary Clinton in this presidential race. Mathematically, I think, [...]
• Depths of political pandering: Suspension of federal gas tax for the summer: Just when you think politicians can’t stoop any lower in their open fawning and groveling for votes, the leaders at it — Sen. John McCain and Sen. Hillary Clinton — [...]
• Who are more ‘powerful’ — candidates’ spouses or candidates’ VP picks?: It’s fascinating to watch presidential candidates express their unique “style” of campaigning and to think about what might truly influence voters — which leads me to the question in today’s [...]
• I am changing my view of The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, to maybe not the ‘bad guy’ here: I watched only part of his address and Q. & A. session this morning on CNN, but I gained a greater understanding and appreciation for The Rev. Jeremiah Wright concerning [...]
• What a relief — local conservative willing, able to police political candidate’s faith choices: It was a great relief to me today to read a conservative writer’s column in our local newspaper explaining that Barak Obama’s religious affiliation was done from political expediency. Like [...]
• Ever try to get off a political party’s mailing list? How’d that work for you?: Got another mailing today from the Republican National Committee. It’s a pretty serious fundraiser pitch for Sen. John McCain, of course. It’s a 4-pager, with lots of “sky is falling,” [...]
• How ludicrous — candidates battling over who is an ‘elitist’: Just when you think this idiotic presidential campaign has become as idiotic as possible, the candidates make new strides and go above and beyond your expectations. Barack Obama apparently violated [...]
• Six steps I recommend to improve the U.S. presidential election system: I have been voting in presidential elections since 1968 (I have been alert and aware of presidential elections since 1952). I’m happy to share my vast background and expertise to [...]
• Top boneheaded distraction in presidential campaign — we have a winner!: I’ll have to say, this presidential campaign is truly historic — and I don’t mean because it might be the first time we have a woman or African American for [...]
• Democrats seem intent on losing a presidential sure-thing, don’t they?: For many years I have been proud to call myself a Democrat. As a student of history, I decided that the Democratic Party, at least since the days of FDR, [...]
• Good old John McCain — trying to sound as much like a Democrat as possible: I just read that Sen. McCain, in a foreign policy speech, says America must not use it’s “great power to do whatever we want whenever we want,” but instead must [...]
• Once upon a time I really CARED about the 2008 presidential election — but now??: I’m sitting here listening to the tug of war going on right now over the Democratic presidential candidacy. I’ve simply gotten to the point that I’ve overloaded on politics and [...]
• No matter how they spin it, Obama’s campaign has a problem over sermons: There was a blog excerpt in our local newspaper today in which the blogger (not a local blogger) tried hard to explain that Obama can’t be held accountable for the [...]
• Can we ever really trust politicians? How do we REALLY know how to vote?: In the wake of the currently unfolding scandal with New York’s Gov. Spitzer, my usually strong sense of cynicism has really kicked into high gear — hence the title of [...]
• Huckabee seems to be still looking for that political miracle: Earlier in this 2008 presidential campaign, I predicted that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee might pull off a big upset and win the GOP nomination. Of course I was wrong. [...]
• High-tech voting improvements seem to be missing the mark: My son was telling me recently that he heard of one of the primary elections recently had polling places being run by some people who were totally stumped by all [...]
• Nader’s running again and I have to say I love the idea: Yippee! Ralph Nader has thrown his metaphorical hat into the presidential ring again. I’m really glad he has. I used to buy into the Democratic Party bitterness that says Al [...]
• Does John McCain qualify constitutionally to be president?: Isn’t that an odd question in my title? Why wouldn’t Sen. John McCain qualify constitutionally to be president? I had not heard about this, but some have brought up the [...]
• Perfect example of ‘witch hunt’? Look at Clemens-Congress fiasco: What a circus. Just think: We pay all those bozos in Congress to ferret out all the corruption and possible corruption going on in, uh, well, uh — Major League [...]
• Bush: Nah, there’s no recession, merely an economic ‘slowdown’: Ah, what a comfort. Our president has reassured us that we are NOT headed toward a recession, we’re merely in a “slowdown.” That makes me think of that old song [...]
• Madelaine Albright makes pretty good case for Hillary Clinton: I was just watching the rerun of Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central. It’s the sanest place to get “news” these days — and I’m only half joking [...]
• Seems like a relatively busy news day, wasn’t it?: The day began like many others for residents of South Florida — until hundreds of thousands of them were plunged into the dark by a power failure. Something to do [...]
• Is it possible Clinton and Obama may physically duke it out for nomination??: Boy, Hillary Clinton was really angry over the weekend regarding some Barack Obama campaign mailings, wasn’t she? And that came just a few days after the two appeared to be [...]
• Is McCain hypocritical about torture — or just kissing up to Neo-Cons?: I was sure I read an AP news brief a day or two ago saying that Sen. John McCain, former P.O.W. who was tortured in captivity by the Vietnamese, who [...]
• Interesting political ploy? McCain takes shots at Obama as presumptive opponent: How interesting: Following his win in the Republican primary in Wisconsin, Sen. John McCain took a potshot at Barack Obama — without naming him — making the contrast between his [...]
• Plea to Hillary Clinton: Don’t turn the Democratic Party toward an oligarchy: Look it up in Google definitions or the good old Merriam-Webster if you need to: An oligarchy is rule by an elite few. From a story I just read about [...]
• Somebody out there enlighten me on ‘Net Neutrality’ and ‘Common Cause’: I confess my ignorance. It’s not easy for someone like me, who considers himself to be an informed, liberal Democraty, to admit ignorance on important public and cultural issues, but [...]
• Will Clinton fall victim to the ‘Giuliani Gambit’? Or is she still in this race?: I just read a news story explaining that Hillary Clinton is telling supporters as she campaigns in Texas that, really, the big Obama wins were expected, that, really, she and [...]
• Another would-be GOP candidate for Missouri governor bites the dust: I have to say, if we had a monarchy in this country, things would be much easier than our forms of elected government at all levels, that’s for sure. (Okay, [...]
• John McCain seems to be the conservative ‘true’ conservatives just can’t accept: Ah, well now, let me see if I understand this. The hardcore conservatives within the Republican Party are bent out of shape because Mitt Romney, their “conservative” candidate, dropped out [...]
• That ‘free money’ from the government appears to be getting nearer: Don’t whip out the checkbook or debit card just yet, but the Senate and House are getting close to agreement on the economic bailout plan that’ll get us some nice [...]
• Romney displays consumate skills with double-talk right up to the end: I applaud Mitt Romney’s ability to keep up the political double talk right to the end. His announcement today that he is suspending his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination [...]
• Those magic words on the day following Super Tuesday: … according to political analysts: Now that we’ve gone out and voted on Super Tuesday, all the political pundits are eager to tell us how we voted and what it REALLY means. It’s good you [...]
• It’s odd the presidential primary stuff you can find through Google: I live in Missouri. Just for fun, I Googled the name of a nearby tourist trap — I mean tourist ATTRACTION, sorry — and it was really odd what I [...]
• Now that John Edwards is gone, what will happen to the Democratic race?: The Internet and the cable news people are all “abuzz and aflutter” with John Edwards getting ready to announce in New Orleans that he’s dropping out of the 2008 presidential [...]
• State of the Union Address — about a C+, maybe, for that one: No one expected President Bush to give a rousing State of the Union Address. I’d say he made about a C+ on it — but when I was teaching the [...]
• Hilliary’s planned trip to Florida — ah, ah, ah, isn’t that sort of cheating the system?: I’ve never been to Las Vegas. But if I understand how the systems there work, big spenders can find Vegas hotels and casinos that will “comp” them with free lodging [...]
• Not a big surprise — Obama wins in South Carolina primary: It’s hard to be that surprised about Barack Obama winning the Democratic primary in South Carolina. He was predicted as a big winner because of the large percentage of African-American [...]
• Would Huckabee and McCain agree to settle nomination with hand-to-hand combat?: Nah, just kidding. I’m sure you know we never resolve political contests in America with hand-to-hand combat. Well, not PHYSICAL hand-to-hand, though campaign rhetoric might sometimes seem more vicious than [...]
• Will the ‘free money’ deal fall apart in the Senate? Will it all come too late? We’ll see: Some of the more politically astute out there in blogging land are starting to get restless — they’re realizing yesterday’s happy news about the tax rebates/stipends/”free money” checks loudly trumpeted [...]
• New economic aid package on the move, or ‘Once upon a time…’: Am I the only one who’s not jumping happily up and down clapping my hands with glee at the “stipends” or tax rebates reported as part of the plan Bush [...]
• Missouri governor surprises everyone: He suddenly decided not to run again: I’m living in Missouri, and when a Blunt in Missouri chooses NOT to run for reelection, that’s big news. When that Blunt is current Governor Matt Blunt, that’s really big [...]
• Once again, would the Democrats rather squabble than lead?: Ah, well, sometimes it just gets so old it makes your teeth hurt, doesn’t it?? (I can’t remember who, but some sit-com character used to use that expression, “it makes [...]
• Oh yeah?? Well at least most Democrats know ugly pants when we see ‘em: “Aw, so’s your old man! (woman?)” — might be as high-minded as the Democratic presidential campaign gets this season. If Clinton and Obama don’t call off the dogs and quit [...]
• Oh joy — get ready for some free money out of Washington: I just read a story about President Bush’s call for a $140 billion bail out for the economy. I’m sorry, I meant $140 billion “economic aid package.” Forgive my hysteria. [...]
• Column calls for political, religious understanding — but can we work together?: I read a reader’s guest column in the local paper’s opinion pages today which made such sense, regarding religion and politics (the two main focuses of this blog, I guess), [...]
• Ouch! Kerry endorsement of Obama must really pain John Edwards: I guess John Edwards kept his smile intact and at least didn’t react with public anger when responding to John Kerry’s endorsement of Barack Obama. But it had to hurt. [...]
• Religion enters the political mix as GOP candidates maneuver in South Carolina: “Nothin’ could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning …” Those are the words from an old song running through my head right now from my childhood [...]
• Lessons learned from a ‘Kingston Trio’ classic — or do we ever really learn as voters?: I appreciate comments I just read regarding the lesson we learn from the New Hampshire primary. The writer, a political columnist from “TheStreet.com,” says we learned that voters care more [...]
• Those are the risks you take — I got it wrong with my New Hampshire predictions: That’s the beauty of American politics — just when you think you’ve got things figured out, even a little bit, the American voter comes along and proves you wrong. I [...]
• Why do Americans think tears are a sign of weakness in their leaders?: I ran onto this report of Hillary Clinton tearing up during a campaign presentation at a coffee shop in Concord, N.H. The story makes reference to former Sen. Ed Muskie’s [...]
• Completely off the top of my head — predictions for NH primaries: Barack Obama will win the New Hampshire Democratic primary and John McCain will win for the GOP. John Edwards will come in second for the Democrats, with Hillary Clinton getting [...]
• Did I call ‘em or did I not? But the Orange Bowl score failed me: Big night last night for America — Barack Obama took another step toward the presidency by winning the Iowa caucuses, and, yeah, Happy Huckabee did the same. On the sports [...]
• Yup, Iowa caucuses proceeding as predicted — Orange Bowl, I’m not so sure: Just as I predicted — the pundits are calling Iowa for Huckabee on the GOP side and Obama on the Democratic side. One “breaking news” email I get suggested that [...]
• Iowa caucuses have started, so the question of the evening is: How big will KU win the Orange Bowl: Okay, I’ll admit it: I am too cynical to really care any longer about the Iowa presidential caucuses at this point. They’ve begun. They’ll end. Nothing much will happen as [...]
• Good to know I’m not the only one who thinks Huckabee’s ‘Fair Tax’ is a ‘Fairy Tale’ tax: I couldn’t resist watching “The Tonight Show” last night — Leno was going to be on his own, winging it without writers or doing his own writing, just like when [...]
• Did you REALLY think the ‘OPEN Government Act of 2007′ improved freedom of information?: I was reading some stuff about the new bill President Bush signed at the end of 2007. The media touts it as a wonderful reform of the Freedom of Information [...]
• What better way to launch the new year than — Iowa presidential caucuses??: Yes, the causes in Iowa are just a day away, and that doesn’t really seem to me like it’s the best way we can start the new year. (The title [...]
• Yup, I did it. I just signed the petition at ‘DraftGore.com’: It’s much easier to complain or criticize things than it is to take some kind of action to change things, isn’t it? Well, I just took a small step I [...]
• I’m almost ready to join the ‘Draft Al Gore’ for president movement: I watched an interview on CNN with President Al Gore — I mean VICE PRESIDENT! — regarding his Nobel Peace Prize, global warming issues, etc. As part of the interview, [...]
• ‘Two women so famous they are known only by their first name’ — just bad journalism: I quoted that part of my title directly from an Associated Press news story. Let’s see if we can guess who those “first name women” are, shall we? How about [...]
• Could the ‘Gomer Pyle-ish’ Huckabee be headed to the White House?: This is getting more interesting all the time: One of the newest polls done in Iowa shows Mike Huckabee waaaay ahead of Mitt Romney in the GOP race there. Which, [...]
• Religion has nothing to do with my lack of support for Romney: I applaud Mitt Romney’s speech to evangelicals striving to explain his determination to be president without religious bias. But I still wouldn’t vote for Mr. Romney. Here’s why. It’s always [...]
• Not exactly news — presidential wannabes flash their star power: The day after Barack Obama’s campaign announced Oprah Winfrey was campaigning for him, Barbra Streisand surprised no one with a public statement endorsing Hillary Clinton. Well, according to reports, there [...]
• Candidate Thompson answers religion questions in predictable fashion: I found this account of Fred Thompson’s answer to questions about religion in government interesting. Interesting, but very predictable. The encounter took place following Thompson’s appearance at a South Carolina [...]
• Long presidential race seems more like living in ‘fantasy land’ than ever before: Okay, I am now at an age where I can say something like this: Presidential races in America are 99% B.S. — and the current so-called “race’ may be more [...]
• Shame on all of us for being so gullible online: According to a Washington Post story, everyone from local business to large corporations are feeling the heat from disgruntled customers who spread the word about they’re dissatisfaction through the Internet. [...]