I went to a Republican candidates forum for North Carolina State offices last month. (Suddenly I want to sing, “I went to the Animal Fair.”) First of all, we are in worse trouble than I thought. Why? Because there were more candidates than audience members, and speaking with several of the candidates before the event, […]
There was a huge hullabaloo on Saturday at the Massachusetts Republican Party caucus events. You’ll surely remember that Mitt Romney won the Massachusetts Republican primary a few weeks back. He won it in a pretty major way, too, racking up 70-plus percent of the primary votes. Well that was the beauty contest part and this […]
“Don’t confuse me with the facts. I’ve got a closed mind.” These words were famously uttered by Rep. Earl Landgrebe (R-IN), a Nixon partisan to the bitter end, at the Watergate hearings. They are all that remain of that legislator’s political legacy. And yet, they reveal a truth. Michael Kinsley defines a gaffe as when […]
As long as we are going to spend the next several months yelling at each other over who makes too much and who makes too little, I thought it might be helpful to talk a little bit about what people actually make and why. Let’s start with who makes the most money – according the […]
Ever wonder how a post-racial America might look? Well, keep wondering. Not only is racism a perpetual human flaw common to all races, but some people will find it when it needn’t be sought. They’ll look where it’s least expected, where no normal person would notice, where Burger King filmed a commercial with Mary J. […]
I learned this morning that if every single person in the United States of America lost their job today and then declared that they were not looking for work, our official unemployment rate would be zero percent! I kid you not. Michigan Congressman Thad McCotter shared that little kernel with me as he was explaining […]
Can you depend on common sense from the government? Consider the following headlines from recently reported events: * Police shut down lemonade stand run by two little girls * SWAT team raids Amish farm for selling milk straight from the cow * Federal Bureaucrats fine Missouri family $4 million for son’s sale of $4500 worth […]
Should a voter have to identify himself before being allowed to vote? It seems a simple enough idea; an idea whose purpose is to verify that the person voting is the same as the person who is registered. What is there to oppose about this? Those supporting the idea, typically more conservative in political leanings, […]
OK, now that Ann Romney has been savaged by the White House for breathing without permission can we quit pretending that Democrats care about women? Apparently the powers that be in the 21st century Democrat Party have determined that raising children and running a household is neither important nor difficult. Not to be compared with […]
I read this morning that the ACLU does not believe there are enough sex offenders living in our neighborhoods. The City of Lynn, Massachusetts, has a sex offender ordinance which declares that registered sex offenders may not live within 1,000 feet of a school, park or recreational facility. Sounds like a good rule to me. […]
