Thank God

Thank God we got a goat herder from Kenya to move to America. Yesterday, as I watched Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin, I was reminded of an earlier time and an earlier American leader. Though not officially our president, Mr. Obama did more to resurrect good will with his speech in Berlin than anything I’ve [...]

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Relief from weasels

We are in another election year. It’s a cycle that lasts longer than “road construction” it seems. Each year the hookah gets deeper and deeper. Politicians have always been full of it, but with 24×7 spin doctors on all the cable outlets it’s become near impossible to get a story without an interpretation. What passes [...]

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Presidential qualities

Wes Clark is an American hero and so is John McCain. Wes Clark served in Vietnam and so did John. George Bush did not serve in Vietnam and may not have fulfilled his commitment to the Alabama National Guard. Dick Cheney got five deferments in the middle of the Vietnam War. Ulysses Simpson Grant was [...]

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Freedom has its cost

Operation Iraqi Freedom was going to leave us with a democracy in the Middle East. It looks like the Iraqis are catching on and that things are going swimmingly well for them but not so well for us.  Turns out they don’t want us occupying their country afterall. They don’t want a permanent US presence [...]

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Grand Oil Party

True to form the GOP blocked a measure that would have supplied a measure of relief to American’s at the pump. They blocked an effort by Senate Democrats to tax windfall profits of oil companies. Windfall profits would be a way to punish the speculators, but you can’t do that to the Grand Oil Party. [...]

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Absolute power

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who [...]

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Viva Casey Knowles

Casey Knowles is the little girl in Hillary Clinton’s scare tactic advertisement designed to foster the politics of divide and conquer. I think this is backfiring on Hillary. Casey Knowles it turns out is no longer a little girl and to make matters worse for Mrs. Clinton, Casey is a Barack Obama supporter. Listen here [...]

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Dumb about war

Be sure to check out what Bill Maher has to say from Real Time with Bill Maher. It’s not only entertaining, it’s true.

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Eliot has to go?

I’m saddened to see that Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York had to resign his office. I don’t know much about the Governor even though I’m a New York resident. There have been lots of scandals it seems in recent years. It seems that public figures are just as fallible as any of us. Too [...]

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We are choosing hope..

I love this particular video of Senator Obama. I’m supporting his candidacy because I think he can bring this country back together and that is something we sorely need.

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