There have been two moments of extreme clarity in my lifetime; watershed events that changed the fundamental assumptions upon which our worldview rests. The first date of extreme clarity is September 11, 2001. No thinking person could possibly look at issues of national security and foreign relations the same way before and after the attacks […]
Mitt Romney scored a big win in Puerto Rico, picking up more than 80 percent of the vote and grabbing all of the 20 delegates up for grabs. Romney told the people of Puerto Rico that if they wanted to become the fifty-first state, he would support that effort. But then again so did Rick […]
Burrn Notice When spies are deemed unreliable, the agency sends out a “burn notice”, terminating their connections and leaving them without cash, influence or a support network. In the popular TV series by that name, ex-spy Michael Weston finds himself blacklisted and stuck in Miami, where he follows a trail hoping to find the people […]
If we are ever going to balance our budget, the national budget, everyone is going to have to give up something in the process. There are not enough pork barrel, purely wasteful, vote-buying programs to come close to accomplishing this goal without each of us losing something free, something paid for by government transfers from […]
In virtually every airport bookstore in America right now you will find a little sleeper of a book in the business section which is as riveting as a thriller and as hard to put down. James Rickards Currency Wars made this reader remember what Secretary of the Navy John Lehman so vividly told Tom Clancy […]
Aside from being a flagrant misogynist, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz is also a serial cheerleader for big union labor. Schultz likes to play at being a regular man of the working class in his support of their cause. He particularly likes to excoriate the evil, rich one-percenters who rake in bucks by gaming the system through […]
A few hundred years into the Christian era, the merger of the Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church blurred the lines between church and state; it corrupted both, injured one and killed the other. Thomas Jefferson didn’t have to be genius to figure this one out; he just needed to be moderately well-read. The […]
Once a conspiracy theory takes root nothing deters its adherents. Evidence contrary to the speculation is summarily dismissed as another brick in the conspirer’s wall of secrecy. Thus, the plot thickens. Now that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has released details questioning the birth certificate Obama produced last year, birthers could become revitalized. While Arpaio’s […]
There are plenty of stories about Mitt Romney putting his foot in his own mouth. Some of these linguistic misadventures are the result of some careful editing; some from the strategic removal of context; and then there are those times where Romney just can’t help himself. I don’t begrudge Romney any of his millions and […]
In 2009 Vice President Joe Biden joined Henrik Fisker for a televised announcement that the Department of Energy would loan Fisker Automotive, Inc. $529 million to manufacture a new, energy efficient, plug-in hybrid car. Biden told a Delaware audience that the federal loan to Fisker Automotive was seed money that would return “billions and billions and […]
