REFLECTIONS

I finally listened to the new radio channel on XM called P.O.T.U.S.’08. As if we can’t get enough ‘news’ on next year’s presidential race — XM satellite radio shall give us a chance to hear about it twenty-four hours a day. This morning the show I heard was Zogby’s The Pulse of the Nation [Note: [...]

A British War Hero has some cutting things to say about Prime Ministers Blair and Brown.    http://in.news.yahoo.com/070929/139/6lcnr.html  It is the standard liberal dichotomy that has plagued liberal-hawks since Vietnam.  Liberals are not comfortable with using force,  the military culture or any of the gung ho ideas that are so needed to win a war.  Nevertheless SOME liberals get [...]

The MSM can’t mention the heroes in our armed forces without putting some negative spin on it.   The idea of nobility and sacrifice are unacceptable burdens in our narcissistic age.  How do we live with our petty selves knowing that young men and women are willing to lay down their lives for our safety and [...]

Oh, just what Wisconsin needs to show itself off to the world: goofy statues! In the Milwaukee Jounal Sentinel newspaper there is on just that topic.Which statue for The Fonz: or TV Land has donated six sculptures commemorating memorable TV events or characters to various cities, starting in 2000 with a New York City statue [...]

President Bush said, “Iran would benefit from the chaos and would be encouraged in its efforts to gain nuclear weapons and dominate the region.” As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad instructs the Democratic Party at a Columbia University convocation, Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser under former President Jimmy Carter, was reported on cnn.com as disapproving of Bush’s statement. [...]

Some of us think we must listen to the madness of a Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Here in Milwaukee there was a local bund in the pre-WW2 years who listen to the madness of Hitler. This week PBS [schedule] is running a Ken Burn’s movie “THE WAR.” It is about four American cities through the war. I [...]

I was listening to foxnews on my xmradio (channel 121) when I heard a brief remark about Republican presidential candidates need to find one issue then run with it. The commenter said President Reagan did just that. His suggestion is that the United Nation is such an issue to energize the conservative movement.

  The Young Prince has a cold.   Which means I must search far and wide and journey through thousands of drug stores for Pseudoephedrine.  This simple little medicine does nothing more or less then open the nasal passages when you have a cold.  But some people take about a thousand pills and turn it into crystal [...]

I was going to write something about civil rights and civil liberty then hell froze over giving the Al Sharpton their main issue again. I was listening to the Warren Ballentine show on XM 169 and with the crys for ‘truth fighters’ and ‘movement of justice’ there, I didn’t feel I wanted to discuss civil [...]

    From the I’m with Fred Weekly Update 9.18.07, there was a subtle message of a lack of political smarts. [Disclosure: I'm partial toward Thompson and Huckaberry (I know I mis-spelled his name but I keep thinking of that cartoon character.)] It just seems to be a bit greedy and a bit careless wording leading to [...]

My very liberal sister loves to accuse me of being close minded because I am a Republican.  The irony of her statement never strikes her.   Today on my welcome screen AOL gave not one, but two striking examples of how open minded liberals are.  Barry Manilow won’t appear on the View because he disagrees with [...]

    I received the follow e-mail from a good friend who is visiting family in Mexico City. It may give us an insight into the mindset of the illegal aliens for the reason why they abandon their homeland (Mexico). It gives a whole, different meaning to VIVA MEXICO! “Just saw electricity receipt for Mom. She complaints [...]

Originally Posted at Red State Blue “You’re nothing but a pack of cards.” — Alice in Wonderland  “Have You No Sense of Decency?” –  Joseph Welch to Sen. Joseph McCarthy, June 9th 1954 “Our brave American service men and women are sacrificing daily for a policy that has no end in sight. A policy of [...]

In suburban Chicago they will mark this day with an appearance by Abigail Adams. Daily Herald The article erroneously describes Mrs Adams as the wife of John Quincy. She was of course the mother of Quincy and the wife of John. I assume that newspapers facing loss of subscribers fire the fact checkers first. On [...]

    Jonah Goldberg wrote in National Review online of July 8, 2003 about “Why the Constitution should remain dead.” He was talking about Sandra Day O’Connor speech in Philadelphia on the “living constitution.” I got the impression Goldberg was confused if the discussion there was about the Constitution living or if O’Connor was. Emanating penumbra is [...]

Judge Robert Bork noted in The Tempting of America,“The abandonment of original understanding in modern times means the transportation into the Constitution of the principles of a liberal culture that cannot achieve those results democratically.”

    I  am reluctantly using the above title in light of actor James Brolin’s sarcastic remark on the radio last Tuesday: “happy 9/11 day.” Such comments as Brolin made is representative today of the civic cynicism of a political faction. Among these malcontents in their disbelief of sincerity of other people’s motives and actions is moveon.org [...]