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Burning Down The House

December 19, 2011

I spent the last week in Las Vegas, where I purposely avoided television, the internet, talk radio, and newspapers. I didn't even check in on my own blog. All things political were jettisoned from my life for an entire week. It was fantastic. I'd be quite happy to remove politics from my life completely, but [...]

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Reality Check

November 27, 2011

In reference to cutting government spending, President Obama likes to say we should use a "scalpel" instead of a "machete". Obama couldn't be more wrong. We should be using a howitzer instead of a machete on government spending. Using a scalpel just ain't gonna git her done, because we're on an unsustainable fiscal path straight [...]

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Friday Political Report

January 21, 2011

There's so much happening on the political front that I couldn't settle on which issue to write about today. So instead, I'll write about all of them. — Birther News: Hawaiian governor Neil Abercrombie said he wanted to put to rest all the craziness surrounding President Obama's birth certificate, so he set out to prove [...]

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Wedded Brits And Lame Ducks

November 24, 2010

Today's top news story comes from across the pond, where a new Royal We is in the making. I normally wouldn't comment on such an event, but I hear from the media it's the wedding of the century, therefore I feel compelled. I only hope I have my facts straight. In jolly old England, Prince [...]

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TSA And Your Junk

November 22, 2010

This is going to be a short post, because the solution to this issue is so obvious. Here's TSA on the job: – After 9/11, airline passengers were forbidden to carry sharp objects. – After the shoe bomber, airline passengers had to take off their shoes. – After the underwear bomber, airline passengers have to [...]

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Hillary On The National Debt

September 9, 2010

Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech to the Council On Foreign Relations wednesday. The entire speech is worth reading/watching, but after the speech, during Q&A, she was asked about our national debt. Following is her response: MR. HAASS: Let me start where you began — where you ended rather — which was with [...]

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Dems To Cut Food Stamps Again ?

August 16, 2010

In order to pay for $26 billion in federal spending to avoid layoffs of state government workers and fund Medicaid, Democrats cut the food stamp program. As amazed as I was at this withdrawal of support from the poor to pay for the middle class (teachers, police officers, etc), I am even more amazed that [...]

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Congress Critters And PC Pros

May 10, 2010

I haven't had time to generate a new post for nearly a week now, so I have a few different topics I want to comment upon briefly. — The other day I heard NBC news bemoaning the fact that Rep. David Obey (D-WI) will not seek re-election. NBC practically deified the guy in it's failed [...]

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Another Government Failure Magnifies Oil Spill Disaster

May 4, 2010

Something I think people of all political stripes can agree upon is this – a primary responsibility of the federal government is to keep us safe, to provide national security. Yet, it seems the federal government has become involved in so many different areas that it has lost sight of it's legitimate and primary focus. [...]

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The Massachusetts Message

January 20, 2010

Republican Scott Brown's improbable Senate victory in the bluest of all blue states, Massachusetts, has sent the Democrats reeling. Their reflective navel-gazing has begun. I look at this as a wakeup call for the Democratic party. Will they now "get" it, or will they remain in denial ? Will they continue pushing policies the American [...]

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Believing Things That Just Aren't So

January 6, 2010

This column is dedicated to the folks who believe ObamaCare, with it's alleged 31 million more people being covered by health insurance, and with it's 2,500 pages of myriad rules, regulations, and taxes being implemented on business and the citizenry by Congress…..will somehow make health care LESS expensive. To all such folks, I bestow upon [...]

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No Smoking Gun ?

January 3, 2010

For the second time since the underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, tried to bring down Northwest flight 253 with liquid explosives, I find myself shaking my head in disbelief at comments from an Obama administration official. The first time was when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano stupidly claimed "the system worked" in the aftermath of [...]

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