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March 11, 2010
Posted by Kaye in: Accountability, Attitude, Children, Commentary, Economic Crisis, Education, Family, Governance, Habit Change, Homeland Security, Legal, Opinion, Politics, Social Issues, The Economy
Today, like every weekday, I got in my car, after work, and head for home listening to NPR. I’ve been thinking about this for some time now and today, after hearing a piece on NPR about Kansas City, Missouri’s school board approving a plan to close 26 schools in one district and Cleveland, Ohio’s school [...]
January 28, 2010
In the early days of Obama’s run for President a lot of people said he had no experience. Remember all those people who said this guy had just been a Senator for a couple years and did he really have the experience to walk into the ring and govern and be the leader of the [...]
January 28, 2010
When I wrote my last novel Rocket Man about a man struggling to keep his home, I emphasized the chaos of the American Dream and threw everything but the kitchen sink at my poor main character. Now this fictional character seems to have moved down the pike into the mainstream of suburban America. A bank [...]
January 24, 2010
The Bill Comes Due for Socialism in America
By Alan Caruba
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” — Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister
It began as a beautiful cruise to a land of “hope and change”, but it has become a nightmare in which the ship of state is [...]
January 23, 2010
Observing the Obvious
By Alan Caruba
For the past two years, it has been obvious to a lot of conservatives and independents that we have a President whose elevator doesn’t go to the top floor. This is a seriously flawed person.
Anyone in law enforcement will tell you that there are few people, including serial killers, who “look” [...]
January 1, 2010
New Rules for Air Travel
By Alan Caruba
The simple fact of the matter is that the only reason the Christmas Delta flight was not blown out of the sky with a powerful explosive was that the detonator didn’t work. Does it strike anyone as ironic that, according to government officials, the “answer” to airline safety is [...]
December 17, 2009
Why You’re Broke
By Alan Caruba
While it is incontestably true that a lot of people took out mortgage loans they could not afford to replay, it is just as true that they were encouraged to do so because banks were required by federal law to make these bad loans. Bankers even gave them an acronym, “Ninja” [...]
December 2, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Commentary, Current Events, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Relations, Governance, Homeland Security, Islam, Military, Opinion, Politics
The Open-Ended War
By Alan Caruba
As I listened to the President address the nation from West Point, I was reminded of how well he can deliver a speech. It’s like watching a slight-of-hand magician. You marvel at his dexterity, but you know he’s still skillfully fooling you.
The speech, given in the Eisenhower auditorium at West Point, [...]
October 27, 2009
How to be a Jerk
By Alan Caruba
Let us begin with a fact that whole legions of global warming alarmists cannot wish away or hide from public view. The Earth has been cooling since 1998 and it is getting demonstrably cooler almost everywhere in the world. The cooling will continue for decades.
So it follows that the [...]
October 14, 2009
Posted by Bill Hazelgrove in: Entertainment, Governance, Minorities, Opinion, Politics, Republican, Social Issues, Sociology, Sports, Television, The Media, The Pundit's Corner, The Writer's Corner
So Rush Limbaugh is down for the count. No NFL team for him to hang his hat on. Seems the NFL wants nothing to do with him or his views. They repudiated the Limbaugh world hook line and sinker. Which of course for Rush is something he will make much of and increase ratings, but, [...]
September 26, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Cap and Trade, Congress, Current Events, Democrat, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Governance, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
Liberals are Killing America
By Alan Caruba
It is not a new observation, but it is one that needs review and repeating every so often. Why do liberals always seem to get on the side of any issue concerning America’s future? Its sovereignty? Its financial security? Its defense?
I think this question is particularly timely given the public [...]
September 24, 2009
Unbearable Arrogance
By Alan Caruba
As the months pass by in the Obama administration, some traits are beginning to emerge that inform us in a general way what we’re up against.
To the astonishment of many, it is an administration filled with Marxists. The “Green Jobs” czar Van Jones was exposed as one and resigned. Now it has [...]
September 17, 2009
Obama: Wrong, Just Wrong
By Alan Caruba
What continues to astound me is how wrong the Obama administration is on so many issues. It is not unusual to disagree with some element of the White House agenda, no matter who is president, but I keep looking for something, anything, with which to agree.
This is the price Americans [...]
September 16, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, African-American, Business, Cap and Trade, Congress, Current Events, Democracy, Economic Crisis, Energy, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Governance, Healthcare, Opinion, The Economy
“Technically” We’re Out of a Recession
By Alan Caruba
I cannot tell you how relieved I was to hear Ben Bernake, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, announce that the United States is “technically” out of the recession. I spent much of the day waiting for my phone to ring with offers of work.
Chairman Bernake did add [...]
September 15, 2009
The results of an interesting poll I recently [...]
September 13, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Congress, Current Events, Democracy, Economic Crisis, Energy, Freedom, Global Warming, Governance, Heroes, Opinion, Politics
The Fine Art of American Protest
By Alan Caruba
There have been many mass marches on Washington, D.C., so the locals know how to make plans to anticipate the congestion and the police are polite and skillful in the science of crowd control. They can afford to be polite because the crowds, no matter how large, are [...]
September 10, 2009
9/11 Eight Years Later and No Safer
By Alan Caruba
Has it been eight years?
What I learned from 9/11 was that a lot of Americans have concluded that it was America’s fault we were attacked. That may sound screwy to people who correctly believe that al Qaeda planned, funded and provided the men who carried out the [...]
September 8, 2009
Old is not “Dead”
By Alan Caruba
The most troubling aspect of President Obama’s insistence on so-called healthcare reform is the way the proposed changes will harm the interests of those on Medicare or Medicaid, all 65 years and older.
In the interest of “reform” it is clear that healthcare for the elderly will be rationed in terms [...]
September 7, 2009
Posted by Alan Caruba in: Accountability, Congress, Current Events, Democracy, Democrat, Economic Crisis, Governance, Healthcare, Opinion, Politics, Republican
A Very American Distrust
By Alan Caruba
Barack Obama has crashed headlong into a wall of distrust. If he had any understanding of American history he would know why, but his sole interest is himself and he proved that by writing not one, but two memoirs.
The men who waged the American Revolution and then met in secret [...]
September 6, 2009
The Afghanistan Quagmire
By Alan Caruba
In November 2008, I wrote of Afghanistan, “Having lived through the long years of the war in Vietnam, I can tell you that Afghanistan looks and smells like Vietnam. It is the classic wrong war in the wrong place.”
I still think the U.S. should leave. I don’t like having to pack [...]
September 5, 2009
Here Comes the President. Hide the Kids!
By Alan Caruba
So the President wants to get the school year off with a speech to all the kids from kindergarten to twelfth grade. Under normal circumstances, this would not arouse my comment although it must be said that I do not recall any previous president doing this.
I do [...]
September 4, 2009
Coruscating on Thin Ice
The Obama Administration is young and out of touch
by Peggy Noonan
At a speech in Colorado someone asked if I was concerned about some of the appointees to the Obama administration. The questioner was referring obliquely to conservative dismay at Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs on the White House environmental council. [...]
August 31, 2009
Posted by Bob Grant - Editor in: Accountability, Business, Congress, Current Events, Democracy, Economics, Foreign Affairs, Governance, Marriage, Medical, Opinion, Politics, Relationships, Religion, Social Issues
Whether it is in personal, or business matters, I have always tried to conduct myself where “My Word” matters. If I say something – promise something – commit to something – I give “My Word” and try to follow through with my commitments. I bothers me tremendously, when for one reason or another, I can’t [...]
August 30, 2009
A Russian Warns Americans Against a Communist Takeover
By Alan Caruba
There is considerable irony involved when a Russian warns Americans against what is taking place before their eyes as President Obama seeks to transform and ultimately acquire dictatorial powers by a series of steps that are both bold and obvious.
In April, Stanislav Mishin’s post on his [...]
August 30, 2009
Obama’s Unconstitutional “Czars”
By Alan Caruba
Here’s a question that has been nagging me for months. Are Obama’s ever-growing number of “czars” constitutional? I am not a constitutional scholar, but I have read the document.
“Article II. Section 2. “He (the President) shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, [...]
August 27, 2009
Don’t Just Stand There. Panic!
By Alan Caruba
I am rather tired of having to panic every other day courtesy of the U.S. government. It started with seeing the former Secretary of the Treasury sweating profusely while demanding the Congress give him a blank check for $700 billion to bail out some financial institutions that probably should [...]
August 25, 2009
Welcome to Obama World
By Alan Caruba
There’s the Real World and then there is Obama World. They are like parallel universes that only look alike
You can tell them apart because the Real World is full of dangerous and demented people who think they are fulfilling Allah’s command to kill unbelievers or even believers with whom they [...]
August 25, 2009
Time to Resign, Mr. President
By Alan Caruba
If you had purchased a stock in January of this year that had lost as much of its value as Barack Obama, you would be desperate to sell it by now. The problem is, the only buyers would be the mainstream media and their stock has been falling too.
I [...]
August 18, 2009
Posted by Lloyd Lofthouse in: African-American, Democracy, Education, Freedom, Governance, Latino & Hispanic, Minorities, Morality, Opinion, Politics, Social Classes, Social Issues
Each post will be less than 700 words.
This is the first entry—an introduction.
There will be several more on this topic.
By Lloyd Lofthouse
During America’s Civil Rights era, laws were enacted with the intent to correct wrongs in America. I strongly agree that it [...]
August 18, 2009
Mandate of Heaven
by Lloyd Lofthouse
The Mandate of Heaven almost ended Communism in China after Mao’s death in 1976. The reason for that was because everyone in China suffered horribly. Thirty-seven million people died because of Mao’s Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
The [...]
August 17, 2009
Watch for the Signs
By Alan Caruba
There are some lessons one learns from a life spent first as a journalist and then for many decades as a public relations professional. You cannot succeed in PR if you cannot spot the early signs that the media herd is heading in one direction or the other.
It was obvious [...]
August 14, 2009
Mr. Unpopular
By Alan Caruba
“I’m melting! I’m melting!” cried the Wicked Witch of the West after Dorothy threw a pail of water on her when her broom caught on fire.
I cannot seem to get this image out of my head as I watch Barack Obama’s polling numbers head south.
The August 13 numbers released by Rasmussen Reports [...]
August 13, 2009
The Obamacare Abomination
By Alan Caruba
Not long ago I published a list of elements of the original Obamacare bill that upset a lot of people who accused me of publishing lies about it, but the original bill—now something in the area of five different versions that the Senate and House will consider on their return—was every [...]
August 11, 2009
Audacity of Barack Obama
By Ben Cerruti
He says that he personally, as if a Congress wasn’t involved, will not allow any tax of a family making under $250,000 [...]
August 1, 2009
The Perfect Storm
By Alan Caruba
The term, ‘”the perfect storm”, has come to mean how circumstances and bad judgments come together to create havoc and death.
I have begun to conclude that America is caught in a perfect storm. It didn’t occur overnight, but it has rapidly reached a point wherein the very life of the nation [...]
July 26, 2009
B.O. is an economic ignoramus or a devious Marxist
By Ben Cerruti
July 26, 2009
First Brat: It’s ALL about Him
By Alan Caruba
Ten minutes into the answer to the first question asked at President Obama’s latest press conference, I had a kind of epiphany. This guy should be called the First Brat.
He has all the attributes of a brat. He wants all the attention he can get. He doesn’t take [...]
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We are apparently at crunch point on the efforts of President Obama, Speaker Pelosi in the House, and Majority Leader Reid in the Senate to pass by whatever means necessary the “health reform” bill. In the national debate, however, no one has asked whether the Supreme Court has [...]