An Optimist’s View of America in the 21st Century

Many predict America’s decline as irreversible, our glory days as the unquestioned superpower behind us.  The rise of China, India, and Russia, in large part due to our own national fudiciary irresponsponsibility and self-loathment, seem to validate this feeling.  It is nice to find a glass half-full view as Victor Davis Hanson over at Real [...]

Red Skelton on ‘The Pledge of Allegiance’

I found this video clip of Red Skelton in 1969 on network TV after seeing this story posted on the Drudge Report about a school in Massachusetts sending permission slips home regarding student participation in reciting ‘The Pledge’.  The clip now seems to be prophetic and also a sad reminder of how far we have [...]

My post-election 2 cents

By now many of you have been inundated with countless opinions explaining why the Democrats were trounced on November 2nd.  Most objective pundits say (correctly I think) it was a repudiation of President Obama and his party’s policies; a vote against Democrats, not for Republicans.  The bad taste everyone had in their mouths for the [...]

A Turkey Day Lesson

This pic is for the ladies.  If you have the chance please read the man in the pool’s column about the “Lost Lesson of Thanksgiving”.  Made me realize “the more things change the more they stay the same” as our country today faces the same ideological struggle as the Pilgrims did almost 400 years ago. [...]

This is really getting good…..Frank feels some heat

The Washington Examiner reports Republican Sean Bielat is getting closer to perennial incumbent and liberal icon Barney Frank in the polls for his congressional seat.  This will be !!!EPIC!!! if Bielat closes the gap by election day and pulls off a Scott Brown-esque upset.  I encourage you to help the man by sending a donation.  [...]

A new contract with America?

We shall see.  1994 was a long time ago politically.  I knew this was coming but the timing concerns me.  Today Congressional GOP leaders in Washington felt the need to release a new pledge to America, looking to recapture the magic of the Newt Gingrich-lead takeover of Congress.  Seems to me they are getting a [...]

Friday Funnies

A return to Neo-Conservatism?

With the mid-term election quickly approaching many media personalities are starting to turn their attention from the generally accepted consensus of GOP landslides to how they will govern.  It will be interesting to watch the direction party leaders take in the coming months.  Will they revert to the neo-con policies of the Bush/Clinton/Bush-era rejected by [...]

Don Draper’s Monday feature

If you are like me and a fan of AMC’s “Mad Men” then the last two episodes of season 4 have been epic.  Pretty much anything goes in Don Draper’s life so he is not one to cast aspersions or judge those around him.  If Draper were a politician I suspect he would be of [...]

A comment on 9/11

Every time I watch footage of that horrible day the first thing which always runs across my mind is the people who did it were not Muslim.  The people who still support and rationalize terrorism are not of the Islamic faith at all.  To label them as such is a disservice to that faith.  You [...]