Back when Dave Barry still wrote a weekly column, Sandra and I had a Sunday morning tradition where I’d read the column out loud to her while she was getting ready for church. The highlight of each year was Dave’s annual recounting of the events of that year, in his own style. Well, he stopped […]
I grew up in Illinois, and I have seen first hand the kind of strange deals that take place in order for things to get done. In fact my own dearly departed Grandfather was once arrested with several high profile political and sports figures for playing high stakes poker in a hotel room. Besides the […]
As expected the US Supreme court has declined to further entertain the “Donofrio v. Wells” case, which sought to have the court better define the portion of Article 1 of the US Constitution that defines the requirement for the President to be a “Natural Born Citizen”. From Legal Line News: Although Donofrio concedes Obama was […]
Word is that tomorrow, the US Supreme Court will discuss in private a suit brought by Leo Donofrio, that asks a very interesting and possibly explosive question. What does it mean to be a “Natural Born Citizen”? This is of crucial importance, because the US Constitution clearly states that in order to run for President, […]
Today I feel sorry for the president elect. Word from the UK Telegraph that Michelle Obama’s mother will soon become the “First Granny”: Michelle Obama’s mother has reluctantly agreed to leave her lifelong home on Chicago’s South Side and move to Washington to help smooth the transition for the grand-daughters who dote on her. The […]
The upcoming Obama administration was so eager to claim some form of government legitimacy, they decided to invent a previously unknown federal bureaucracy: The Office of the President-Elect. Now mind you, every President-Elect has a transition team that does a lot of work to make sure the day they get into office they can start […]
Iowahawk shows that brevity is the soul of wit: So for now, let’s put politics aside and celebrate this historic milestone. In his famous speech at the Lincoln Memorial 45 years ago, Dr. King said “I have a dream that one day my children will live in a nation where they will not be judged […]
Oh to be a fly on the wall! News reports say today is the day that President-elect Barry Obama gets his first real intelligence briefing as the Bush administration beings the transfer of national command authority. Up until now, our newly minted President-elect was a rookie Senator, and did not get the full details of […]
Sometimes, there’s a reason for going with your first impression/analysis. Back in early June, when John McCain clinched the Republican nomination, I wrote the following: I’m listening to John McCain’s speech (live) down in Louisiana as I type this. My prediction: the Republicans are going to get beat like a red-headed stepchild this fall. Sigh. […]
Wisdom from the past
I have recently been re-reading The Ancient State by Hugh Nibley and just this morning finished reading “The Hierocentric State” (originally published back in 1951 in Western Political Quarterly 4/2). The article itself suggests that key aspects of the vast nomadic cultures of Central Asia (e.g., the Mongols) were idealized and emulated by more sedentary […]
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