Category Archives: politics

What the GOP and the NCAA Have in Common

We’ll have to wait and see what the computers determine in the next BCS rankings but barring some miracle, the National Championship game will come down to LSU and Alabama.  These two teams are some of the Blue Bloods of … Continue reading

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The Future of US Manufacturing

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past 20 years, you know that manufacturing in the United States has fallen.  From this link, you can see that US manufacturing as a percent of GDP has fallen from a high … Continue reading

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Police of the World

It is hard to argue against the claim that the United States is the police of the world.  We are usually the first country to send troops, planes, ships and other elements of military force into a hostile territory and … Continue reading

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You Can’t Appease an Occupier

In the Wall Street Journal there was an editorial about the struggles that the Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is having with the Occupy LA idiots. The Mayor has tried to appease the Occupiers by offering ponchos to protect them … Continue reading

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The Ignorance of OWS

There is a story from NPR today that is mostly really good and since it is about a small college in Kentucky, my home state, I really enjoyed it.  Well, I mostly enjoyed it.  I’ll get to that in a … Continue reading

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This is How Liberals Think

Greg Sargent wrote an article for the Washington Post entitled “Debunking the Conservative Arguments about the rich and taxes, in three easy charts” and his conclusions show us how Liberals think.  His first chart acknowledges what many Conservatives have known for … Continue reading

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Our Problem Is Simple

Political issues are notoriously complex but, as fate would have it, our current political problems can be stated in very simple terms that can be comprehended by most of the US adult population.  Mortgaged To The Eyeballs We have over $15 trillion … Continue reading

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Amnesty That Makes Sense

Illegal immigration is the elephant in the room and a problem that is not going away in America.  While the problem is obvious, the solutions are not.  On the far Left we have a proposal to grant amnesty to all … Continue reading

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Is This How A Leader Acts?

Obama gave us another example of his leadership yesterday by calling US companies “lazy.”  This happened at a speech to a business forum during the Economic Summit with many Asian countries attending where topics such as trade and currency policy … Continue reading

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Conservatives Have Been Fighting With One Arm Tied Behind Our Backs

There is a great post from Alveda King (Niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) that explains why Liberals are terrified of Herman Cain.  The money quote from this post is pasted below: “For many years, the Democrats have had … Continue reading

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The Gaff Nobody is Talking About

If you were like me, I felt sorry for Perry last night when he couldn’t remember the third government agency he’d shut down and as you’d expect, that gaff has been all over the blogosphere today.  But I spent most … Continue reading

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Occupy Wall Street Will Hang Themselves

Did you hear the story about the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protester who decided he had enough of the corruptions and quit the movement?  Don’t worry if you missed it, there’ll be plenty more in the coming weeks and months. … Continue reading

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Measurable Goals For America

I pondered in a previous post  how we would structure government expenditures if we were starting a new country.  But let’s expand that thought experiment and ask – what are the measurable goals for our country?  What are we striving … Continue reading

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Socialism, Unions and Automobiles

No, this is not the title of a new comedy/parody about Occupy Wall Street.  I heard two stories on NPR this evening on the drive home that struck me as examples of what is wrong with both Socialism and Unions … Continue reading

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Is This How We Run a Country?

If you were to start a new country, one of the things you will have to consider is how the incoming tax dollars will be spent.  A government should look at its Constitution and determine the areas that are clearly … Continue reading

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Income Inequality

If you are not familiar with these two words then you haven’t been watching the news the past 2 months or paid attention to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) demonstrations.  There is a new report from the Congressional Budget Office … Continue reading

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Poverty Rate and Welfare Spending

I was looking at Welfare spending as a percent of GDP from the following site and wondered if this data were somehow correlated with US poverty rate from this site.  The results were startling!  Starting in the early 70’s, Welfare … Continue reading

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Perry Tax Plan Compared To Cain 9-9-9 Plan

UPDATE [25-OCT-11 21:00 EDT]: I have updated this post as more details of the Perry plan have been revealed. Rick Perry announced tonight that he has come up with a new Tax Plan that he calls “Cut, Balance and Grow.”  … Continue reading

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We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Jobs

In the wake of Alabama’s strong Illegal Immigration Law , which passed over three weeks ago, the state is now facing a labor crisis that has farmers struggling to plant and harvest their crops.  I was in favor of the … Continue reading

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This is How Socialism Always Ends

The honeymoon is over for Occupy Wall Street.  The kids are getting restless and now that whole Socialism thing isn’t sounding so good.  Sharing all your stuff with everyone isn’t as appealing as it once was and they are even … Continue reading

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