I spent most of America’s Independence Day in Vicksburg, Mississippi at the Vicksburg National Military Park and the experience caused me to reflect on the lessons of the war and the policies and disagreements that led up to it.
Category: Politics
When Memory Conveniently Shortens
Desperado says that the “extreme right-wing” has gone of the deep end because Rush Limbaugh said that Barack Obama might not give up the reigns of power in 2016. I have three specific problems with the article beyond its general aim of inciting the liberal crowd. First, Rush Limbaugh is not the extreme right. Not…
Government Medicine in Action
So there’s no confusion, I’ll make my position clear from the beginning: The idea of government-run healthcare is a bad joke. It’s not just the bad healthcare that government agencies give that’s the problem – it’s also about the medicine and the healthcare options that they take away. Now a panel of advisors to the Food and Drug Administration has advised that agency to forcibly ban the use of drugs like Vicodin and Percocet that combine acetaminophen and narcotics. The reason for their elimination? Risk of overdose.
The West’s Moral Imperative on Iran
Charles Krauthammer’s latest re the standoff in Iran is an absolute must-read. Those who advise President Obama to equivocate now, at a crucial moment in history, must believe – mistakenly – that there can be a meaningful dialogue with the current government in Tehran on the subject of nuclear weapons and terrorism. But as Krauthammer says, the hope that non-confrontationalist appeasement will ever wring any important compromises from the pitiless regime that rules Iran is a chimera.
Hope n’ Change re Iran
Mr. Polite says: after just excusing a Black Panther for intimidating white voters with a nightstick, he doesn’t want to look like a hypocrite just because a few Iranian voters get beaten. Or worse. Very succinct and very apt, methinks.
House to Bribe Car Buyers; Innovation Not Important
The House of Representatives is mulling over a plan that would give “vouchers” to new car buyers who purchase fuel efficient cars. Evidently vouchers are bad when it comes to education and good when it comes to automobiles. Typical liberal non-think. Choice is good if you think and act the way that they want you to; otherwise, they have to find a way to coerce you.
Obama Addresses the Muslim World
Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world was one worth making. He made some important points and made them more firmly than I had hoped he would. True, the president could have done more to clarify our country’s intention to hold to its own values, regardless of public opinion among foreign Muslims, but then he…
Obama on America, Islam, and Progress
In Cairo, Barack Obama said something that’s both singularly offensive and utterly fallacious when he stated that “one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” Taking the inaccuracy first, estimates vary but…
Sometimes a Show is Just a Show
Sometimes I have to wonder why people think they need to have an opinion on everything. Case in point: A man took his wife to the theater in New York and the Republican National Convention felt it necessary to respond critically to this act of kindness because the man was Barack Obama.
My Personal Mea Culpa
Deliberate readers of this blog will have noticed its diminished content recently, a reduction caused in large part by the demands of my day job. As rewarding as having this forum can be, it must be said that it doesn’t put so much as a crumb of food on the table. Another component of my…