A Tea Party activist confronted President Obama last night in Iowa, demanding to know how he could be calling for civility when Vice President Joe Biden is calling people like him “terrorists.” The President graciously spoke with the man one-on-one after the event. Ain’t America great? Really. Can you imagine what would happen to the guy in […]
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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
I don’t mean to make a deep philosophical point here. It’s a sociological one I’m after. There are two clusters of workers standing by my train station every morning. One group is clad in red tee shirts and carrying union banners reading, “All Verizon Jobs are Union Jobs,” and the like. They are striking members […]
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Rick Perry and Mitt Romney are locked on each other already. The two are sniping back and forth 48 hours after Perry’s entrance into the GOP primary. The news media is gobbling it up. Finally, something of interest to cover. Perry, a late entry in the race, needs to mix things up. The worst thing […]
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http://youtu.be/eBaskRZDbNA You Tube sensation “Sidewinder” is part of the 571st Air Force Band, 131st Bomb Wing, Air National Guard. They are stationed in Afghanistan. Here they are singing “Rolling in the Deep.” Gotta love ’em.
Read the rest of this entry »The President’s Numbers, Minus the Black Vote
President Obama fell below the 40% approval threshold for the first time this weekend, according the latest Gallup Survey, not long after the stock market dipped below the 11,000 mark again. Mr. Obama now enjoys the support of just 39% of Americans; 54% disapprove of his performance, with the rest falling into undecided territory. President George W. Bush, […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Truth About Grandpa Joe
Something has always bothered me in the story Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It’s Grandpa Joe –the guy who lays around in bed all day every day until Charlie nails the Golden Ticket. Then ol’ Joe is up and dancing circles around his bed –the one he’s rotted in for 20 years –gaily celebrating his […]
Read the rest of this entry »Corporations ARE People
Mitt Romney is supposedly in hot water for uttering a plain truth while campaigning before a boisterous crowd in Iowa. The former Massachusetts governor was confronted by a corporate-bashing gaggle of young moaners yesterday and said: “…corporations are people, my friend.” Damned straight. Romney should stick to his guns on that remark. He should take not […]
Read the rest of this entry »Campaign Ad, Edwards ’08
http://youtu.be/L7WbBuukrzo John Edwards was supposed to be the Hillary alternative in 2008, but along came Barack Obama. Later, the truth about Edwards’s secret life came out, and now he will be lucky if he avoids jail time. It’s a rough business, American politics. One can fall a long, long way — and quickly.
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My Aunt Priscilla once explained to me that China’s enforced one-child policy in a single generation eliminated the existence of brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, and cousins. I will never forget the moment. It put a chill in my spine that never quite went away. I felt it twinge again last night when I read this New York […]
Read the rest of this entry »More Obama Buyer’s Remorse
More buyer’s remorse from a former Obama supporter who now wishes he had supported Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic Primaries. St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan opines: Hillary was not new. She represented the second act of ‘Billary,’ and I had tired of that play long before it ended its eight-year run. So I voted for Obama in the […]
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