Dear President Obama: Before you lob even one missile [which costs millions of dollars to produce] into Syria, may I respectfully request that you ponder these questions?: -What’s the point?What will a missile strike actually accomplish, besides the emboldening of […]
Category: Politics
This week, the Supreme Court ruled on the issue of gay marriage. In one ruling, the Court held that the federal government may not withhold benefits pursuant to the Defense of Marriage Act from same-sex couples. In a different decision, […]
The latest crisis [allegedly] in Washington is called the sequester. I am not interested in assigning blame for the measure. The majority of Democrats and Republicans are less concerned with the good of the country and, instead, focus on sustaining […]
I type this as I give my hands a brief respite from hanging onto my desk for dear life as our nation marches towards the fiscal cliff and all of the problems that accompany it. If this fiasco does not […]
The GOP candidate, Mitt Romney, lost the 2012 election for President of the United States. He failed to win Florida or Ohio. In the end, the popular vote was somewhat close. The count in the electoral college was not. News […]
Perhaps Mitt Romey’s inability, or refusal, to offer a precise alternative strategy to the President is not dispositive to his election. His handful of offshore bank accounts should be. I do not begrudge the man for making loads of jack […]
Dudes like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly are murdering the GOP brand. Granted, these two yahoos are difficult to stomach, even when they are not in the headlines for their partisan, vitriolic commentary. However, things are different right now. The […]
Last week, 60 Minutes reported that the United States spends more than $300 million per day in Afghanistan. Wait … what? What in the sam freaking hell are we doing there? U.S. troops have been in that hellhole for 10 freaking years. Vietnam thinks […]
America “does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.” John Quincy Adams.
I’ll preface this post by stating that I am a registered Republican with center-right views. The Republican party used to nominate for president the candidate, who was “next-in-line.” John McCain held that position. However, in selecting Sarah Palin, an extremely […]