Monthly Archives: January 2011
In the early 70′s, Johnny Nichols, a native horseshoer and brother to the once famous jockey, Jimmy Nichols, was having a beer with red beans and rice at a bar in Bossier City, Louisiana. Unbeknown to him, a professional wrestler … Continue reading
Bill Roggio updates the Afghanistan situation with some somber, but expected, news. Members of al-Qaeda are training the Taliban:
“We also have seen some indications that there have been foreign trainers that have come to train the local Taliban who are fighting here in Andar,” Continue reading
Ok, the SOTU is done and here are my thoughts.
It sucked. I mean big time. One of the worst I have seen in a long long time.
The bulk of this speech was about going “green” energy and rah rah rah. More money for infrastructure, more money for education….and then he threw in some Rodney King “can’t we all just get along” crapola. Continue reading
Reading President Obama’s piece in the Wall Street Journal last week made me think of something Tom Dye, one of my Political Science professors at Florida Sate used to say when discussing the Soviet approach to arms negotiations: “If it’s someone’s goal to kill you, you should not be surprised to discover that they are more than willing to lie about it in the first place.” That basic truth of that statement seems fairly obvious, but it’s a lesson liberals never learned during the Soviet era and President Obama demonstrates he thinks Americans have not learned it today. Continue reading
Samuel Johnson wrote
“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
Barack Obama has seen the gallows of re-election and has decided to retool himself into something he is most certainly not. Obama is going to move to the center. So promises the all too compliant and complicit left wing media. Continue reading
Chicago is a cosmopolitan city with cosmopolitan people; many Chicagoans proudly walk down Michigan Avenue on the shore of Lake Michigan with an air of confidence and sophistication. It is far beyond my humble abilities to judge whether that confidence … Continue reading
In the Weekly Standard Jennifer Rubin describes an interview of Michael Mukasey in which Mukasey speaks of Eric Holder’s behavior at the Justice Department as “amazing” but not as in “good” amazing.
He means the bad kind of amazing. Continue reading
Is there any better example of do as we say, not as we do, than ObamaCare? (h/t Gateway Pundit) Three local chapters of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)–whose political action committee spent $27 million supporting Barack Obama in the … Continue reading
We all know America is doomed unless we return to core economic values and we know the economy is presently in ruins.
We know that if any recovery takes place, hyper-inflation is sure to manifest itself. Inflation is already rising, and that’s with a national 10% unemployment rate. Continue reading