Quote for the day
“Can you imagine a world repopulated by senators? The living would envy the dead.” — U.S. Representative Randall K. Jepperson IV in Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
Category: US Politics
Losing the New York Times?
First it was the NY Times editorial telling Tom Daschle that he needed to step down as the Obama Administration nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services — which Daschle did the same day the editorial came out, specifically citing the Times as he did so (“I read the New York Times this morning…”). […]
What’s up with Thornton, Colorado?
The wonderful Stimulus Watch website gives you an opportunity to see what funding is proposed in the House Stimulus package for any part of the country. I decided to look up Colorado, and in particular Parker, which is where I live, in hopes of doing some first-person investigation of any proposed projects. Nothing. In Parker, […]
So, couldn’t they read the questionnaire?
Let’s look at the track record so far, two weeks into the Obama Administration: Tom Daschle, now-former nominee for Sec’y of Health and Human Services, leaves the Senate, earns millions of dollars per year for uncertain work, fails to pay taxes and has heavy lobbying-like involvement from the health industry; his withdrawal was announced after […]
Another sign that the Republicans may be finally coming to their senses
The new chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael S. Steele, is giving his acceptance speech as I type this: What’s appalling (still) is that the #2 vote getter was a white Southerner, Katon Dawson, who had belonged to a whites-only country club all the way up until last September. Sheesh, have they no clue? […]
Geo-Political Hot Spots of 2009
We are one month into 2009, and it is shaping up as one of the more dynamic years in my lifetime for geo-politics. As long as the economies around the world were expanding, everyone could be or pretend to be fat, dumb and happy. How that the global flood of easy money has evaporated, many […]
Holy crap…look what the Fed’s done with the money supply
Pardon my French, but everything else that came to mind was even more profane. Courtesy of The Corner at National Review Online comes the link to this chart showing how the Fed has pumped up the money supply lately: That little tiny blip around 2000 is apparently when the Fed “flooded” the money supply in […]
A sense of liberation and relief…for me, at least
Earlier today, I watched live TV coverage of the second White House press briefing by new White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs (the first was yesterday). To their credit, the White House press corps were not at all easy on Gibbs, perhaps due to some growing frustrations with President Obama and his interactions (or lack […]
Congratulations, and God bless Pres. Obama
While I have issues with the political agenda likely to be pushed by Pres. Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress, I was and am profoundly moved by his election. And I think the real benefit of his ascension to office is that the Left’s handmaiden, the mainstream media, will likely focus on cheerleading the economy […]
