REFLECTIONS

I know you are getting sick of hearing me say this, but I am beyond sick of hearing that “Obama ran as a moderate”   http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/82702/    NO HE DID NOT!!  He ran as a big spending liberal.  His promises were a laundry list of government programs.  He promised the government would pay for every kid to [...]

For years Obama has scorned the Birther controversy, steadfastly ignoring the internet buzz about his birth certificate.  For once his famous cool worked exactly as advertised, he ignored the fringe argument and it stayed on the fringe.  Suddenly the birthers are everywhere, on CNN, on my AOL welcome screen.   After ignoring the question for months [...]

As homeschoolers, BurkeanMama and I are members of HSLDA – the Home School Legal Defense Association.  Their latest magazine had a cover story that stunned me, entitled “Will U.N. Treaty Disarm America?“  Now the idea that the U.N. wants your guns is nothing new.  The article discusses the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the [...]

Idiots in charge; no fools to spare

Alex Gimarc on Jupiter, Apollo 11, Chappaquiddick, Honduras, Walprin, Gates, Bears, & Ethics. #tcot #townhallweblog #GOP #aip

Last week a flock, pod, school?  whatever it’s called of giant squid showed up off the southern Calfornia coast.  This inspired the BurkeanSon to compose an ode to the newest, tentacled tourists.  If this poem seems awfully advanced for a nine year old boy, all I can say is Homeschooling Works. Why are giant squids [...]

A commentator over at Pajamas Network says that he is afraid Obama will turn into a Nixon of the “left.”  http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/obamas-path-not-taken/  Okay one more time people: Nixon was a Nixon of the left.  Whatever he pretended to be, whatever party he represented Nixon governed as much from the Left as LBJ.  Wage and Price controls?  [...]

Obama is imploding so fast and so early in his presidency that too many people are patting themselves on the back way too soon.  http://fedpapers.blogspot.com/thinks health care will be O’s Waterloo.  Am I the only conservative in the county who hasn’t repressed their memories of the Clinton years?  We thought we were done with him [...]

Alex Gimarc on Health Care, Chicago Way, AK Medicare, Epiphany, ACU, Revolt, Special Session. #tcot #AIP #RNC #GOP

BurkeanSon wanted to watch baseball today.  So naturally I popped Take Me Out To The Ball Game in the dvd player.  He said that wasn’t real baseball.  I told him it was a lot more real than today’s steroid ball.  Ah when men were men and didn’t need performance enhancing drugs.  And could really sing [...]

In a delicious case of irony, Kindle (the “connected” ebook reader) owners woke up to find that their purchased copies of 1984, by George Orwell, had silently become unbooks. This all harks back to the whole issue of DRM (Digital Rights Management), which is in the best traditions of Orwell a pernicious lie.  The Amazon [...]

Our family likes to listen to old radio shows, Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Abbot and Costello.  You can buy them from http://www.radiospirits.com/   The shows from the 1940s are heartbreaking.   Throughout these comedy shows are sprinkled tribute to the armed forces, calls for support for men and women in uniform, references to battles and soldiers [...]

Alex Gimarc on FedEx, BMD, Enviro Cops, LA, Ginsburg, Tobacco Ban. #TCOT #AIP #RNC #GOP

The Health Care Reform Supporters have been careful to say that you will be able to keep your health insurance under the new plan. What they have just as carefully not said is that should you lose your current insurance — perhaps by changing jobs — you will never be able to buy private health [...]

Boy it’s quiet aroud here, too quiet.  Tweeting is too quick and easy it’s like eating junk food instead of cooking dinner yourself.  Thinking out a blog post, putting a thesis into words and supporting it with evidence?  Who has the time?   Besides what is there to say: Abortion is a sacred medical procedure that [...]

Alex Gimarc on Gov. Palin, Honduras, and Congressional ever-changing confusing rules.

It is getting harder and harder to make sense of life on this side of the Looking Glass.  Let me see if I can get this clear.  It would be wrong for the United States to “meddle” in Iranian elections, even if half the people in Iran are begging for support.  BUT it is okay [...]