It’s Friday and most of us are looking forward to the weekend. I’m hoping to take in my little guy’s soccer game, attend services, and get a little sun time on the beach. Democrats in Massachusetts will have different items on their agenda. Tomorrow those Mass Dems will gather in Springfield and hold their convention. […]
The 2012 presidential election is shaping up to include an argument over opportunity versus equality. The American economy has been stagnant for a decade. Income for working men has been stagnant (or even contracting) for 40 years. Why? Forty years ago is when America started abdicating its classical high-growth monetary policy, the gold standard. We abandoned […]
After nine days of deliberation a jury found former golden boy Johnny Reid Edwards not guilty on one of six counts in a campaign-finance trail and deadlocked on the remaining charges, leading the judge to declare a mistrial on the outstanding counts. Edwards is guilty of myriad disgraces and serial sordid transgressions, but violating federal […]
Discouragingly spot-on: h/t: Terry Mcintyre, whose Facebook thread always contains some golden nuggets.
Who’s your mama? The answer might surprise you. I know you think that the lovely lady who carried you in utero for about nine months and then powdered your bottom and fed you is the woman you should send a card to, but the reality is that this year you should address all of your […]
Is this election a defining moment in United States history? It certainly seems so. On one side we have Barack Obama. On the other we have Mitt Romney. What choice could be more disparate? Certainly Ron Paul would be more adamant about reducing the size of government and its influence in our lives, but this […]
This from ABC News: Which helps explain this from Politico: Not to be outdone, our uptown paper serves up this duo of headers that ran on the same day: Just sayin’
This past Memorial Day provided some great opportunities to understand exactly what our heroes have done for us. My oldest boy, a proud Boy Scout, served on the color guard for a number of Memorial Day events. He and his fellow scouts also stood outside of our local supermarket and sold poppies to raise funds […]
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” What about corporations? Apparently, some corporations are more equal than others, or perhaps some are “people” whereas others aren’t. It depends on how an individual corporation’s political twig is bent. A federal judge recently issued an injunction against a Texas law that […]
Some food for thought about the direction our country is headed, if it hasn’t already reached a truly disturbing destination. This from BuzzFeed: An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned. The amendment would “strike the current ban on […]
