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“You think you’ve heard these same excuses before? You’re right.  In this country there were those who dug in their heels and said, ‘Slow down, it’s too early. Let’s wait. Things aren’t bad enough’ — about slavery. When women wanted to vote,  ‘Slow down, there will be a better day to do that — the [...]

Sometime in 2007 or so, some people decided the US was too polarized.  I’m not terribly sure that’s a bad thing.  But, it became a political issue that the Democrats used to some success I suppose.  Obama was going to fix that polarization problem.  It was change you could believe in. His people didn’t listen.  [...]

I get the newsletter from the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission.  It’s full of all kinds of neat stuff that doesn’t make the news a whole lot.  In fact, more often than not I have to just paste the text in here because no media feels like fooling with it.  So far, this has been the [...]

Prostitution used to be illegal in most of the country.  Now it’s “performance art”.  Child prostitution used to be a crime, now it’s a deduction.  Social activism at its best!  We must not let one bad ACORN ruin it for all the others though.  My problem is figuring which ACORN is the worst.  This one, [...]

I love Snopes.com.  No telling what you’ll find there.  Humor, movies, sports, paranormal, extra-terrestrial, politics, you name it, it’s there.  One of today’s stories involve an opinion piece written by Charley Reese in 1985. Politicians, as I have often said, are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. [...]

That’s the conclusion Congressional Budget Office director Doug Elmendorf told Congress Friday: Although different types of preventive care have different effects on spending, the evidence suggests that for most preventive services, expanded utilization leads to higher, not lower, medical spending overall. Nancy Pelosi was so excited to hear this, she went on the offensive against [...]

Today we’ll start one of the most annoying processes in politics I can think of.  Nominating a Supreme Court justice will bring us a week of guaranteed partisan political bickering and posturing.  No ifs, ands, or butts.  Guaranteed. Now, I don’t have that much of an issue with that aspect of it.  I just won’t [...]

Barack Obama made a huge deal out of ending partisanship in DC. He then pretty much slammed the door shut once he was elected. Democrats got all the positions of power. When Nancy Pelosi moved to squelch any chance of open, public debate on any issue, Obama was dutifully silent. Yesterday we got a perfect [...]

President Obama recently sent out a very clear message to companies receiving bailout money: …”You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer’s dime” This aggravated the governor of Nevada quite a bit.  The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reports over 400 conventions and [...]

A lot has been made over the collapse of Fannie Mae.  For a while, peeps kept insisting it was apparently a short term blip and that a huge infusion of cash would apparently make everything good.    Other peeps, like me and a few others, have argued that unless they change the rules and allow [...]