REFLECTIONS

Tonight, I received an e-mail from our fellow Townhaller, Tonic Water, who is in Louisville attending the NRA Forum. Here is her report: Few Americans ever get the opportunity to sit down in a meeting with presidential candidates, Governors, Senators and Congressmen. NRA’s Celebration of American Values Leadership Forum gave 70,000 members that chance at [...]

We the People don’t matter.   Duly elected officials don’t matter.  Life, Liberty and Property can be snatched at the whim of anyone who gets themselves a fancy black robe.   Other than liberating Iraq and Afghanistan the longest effect that President Bush will have in this world will be Alito and Roberts.  If you want to [...]

The men that Democratic congressmen say are equivalent to Hussein’s torturers, and writers  of Lost say are worse, were flying in emergency aid to the people of Burma this week.  http://www.mysinchew.com/node/11486?tid=37.   Their military dictators hate us of course, but the US Marine were there to help and save lives.  Of course, that’s what they do God Bless [...]

All over the internet and on “conservative” talk radio the same song is playing.  The GOP is bad, the GOP is in trouble, the GOP deserves to lose.   Can we get a grip for a minute and remember what the Democratic party has been doing for the last 7 years.  We have had democrats on [...]

While unpacking our suitcases I found that each of them had been “randomly” searched by the TSA.  There were little notices in each suitcase explaining that our bag had been selected for a random search.   They must have been so suspicous when they found a copy of Reflections on the Revolution in France in one of [...]

The Founder of the Soldier’s Angels program, which provides gift packages to service members serving in the Middle East, was voted America’s Favorite Mom.   This was in one of those ubiquitous reality shows I don’t watch, but I got an e-mail today from Soldier’s Angels letting me know that Patti-Patton Bader won the contest.  While Hollywood [...]

Yesterday our web master and I were discussing compassionate conservatism, which I insist and always have insisted, is just playing into liberal hands. Compassionate conservatism we have since learned is big government conservatism (which I could have told you back on 00 when I didn’t vote for W. in the primaries.) A person can be [...]

Hollywood is so treasonous it barely registers.  The contempt Hollywood has for the nation that makes its denizens inexplicably rich is so much a part of everything they do, I don’t even think they know they are doing it.  For four years on Lost we have seen the heroic Sayid, once a member of Hussein’s [...]

and not a minute too soon.  The Half The Sky Foundation, which runs orphanges for abandoned girls in China, has set up a foundation to help with recovery from the earthquake.  For information about the quake and how to help visit their web site. http://www.halfthesky.org/journal/?p=88

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has determined that the leading cap-and-trade scheme, the Lieberman-Warner Secure Climate Act, would include a huge tax hike, raising federal revenues an astonishing $1.2 trillion over the next ten years. The two remaining Democrats and the Republican nominee-to-be are all in agreement. The tag of global climate change is a [...]

John McCain’s biggest challenge is how does he get Republicans to cross-over in order to get them to vote for himself this Fall.

Interesting Items 5/12 – Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy – In this issue: 1. Bailout 2. Louisiana 3. Hezbollah 4. Hatcher Pass 5. Bridge 1. Bailout. It’s election season and congress is well on its way to buying your vote for their reinstallation in office come November. As usual, they [...]

This morning, Lisa Schiffren over at the National Review Corner says “this bumper sticker would be funny, if it weren’t so true.” —— ADDENDUM —– An e-mail came in from a friend about this post, he ask me if I was “making up stories. How is Obama similar to Carter?” Well, sir, if you would [...]

They say ‘all politics are local.’ B. Obama (BO) wants to change the political culture in Washington. He doesn’t really tell how he’ll change things except leaves us with the perception he means corruption (whose is the question?). Mark Hemingway posted today about the Chicago Way. Here in the Upper Midwest we know Illinoisite politics [...]

Several years ago amazon.com had attempted to offer e-books in the pdf, lit, and some other formats. They stopped it because they said they was no market despite fictionwise.com and ereader.com doing a decent business with it. When I went to view the link about Michael Yon’s book, A Moment of Truth in Iraq, that [...]

I am on vacation, not blogging and trying hard not to pay attention to a world outside of my own family. But today I caught Michael Yon on the radio. I already knew his book must be read, but listening to him reaffirmed that. So while I am away you are all assigned to read [...]

# Book”: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What It Means # Author: George Soros # Publisher: PublicAffairs # Number Of Pages: 192 # Publication Date: 2008-05-19 # ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1586486837 # ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781586486839 George Soros explores the origins of the financial crisis causing an upheaval [...]