May 2006

Henry Paulson, Chairman of Wall Street Financial firm Goldman Sachs, has been named as Treasury secretary by President Bush. This is a good move on the part of the Bush Administration. Paulson will be both an excellent spokesman for an economy that grew at its fastest rate in 2 1/2 years this past quarter, and [...]

John Murtha is a disgrace. All of a sudden, after all his efforts to discredit Bush, the war effort, and consequently giving aid to our enemies by giving them hope, John Murtha NOW sees this Marine scandal as the one big thing that’ll end support for the Iraq War.
First of all, if those Marines killed [...]

I always believed that temporary taxes were permanent. I stand corrected. The temporary telephone tax to fund the Spanish American War has been repealed. President McKinley kept his promise. Maybe I’ll believe the next politician who claims his or her tax increase isn’t permanent.

If you ever want to know which way the political winds are blowing during an election year, watch the moderate Republicans. Under normal circumstances, these RINOs crave the approval of the media. During an election year, they seek the approval of the voters. The Democrat strategy for re-taking the House in November is to target [...]

Expose the Left is doing just that tonight. Earlier today many media outlets, led by ABC News, falsely reported that House Speaker Dennis Hastert was being investigated in a bribery scandal. To ABC’s credit, they have corrected the story. Not so for many in the left-wing blogosphere who are still running the original story.
This from [...]

I had a good chuckle watching a few of these videos from a Drudge link to the Competitive Enterprise Institute. While I agree with some of their CO2 assumptions in the second video, I don’t quite embrace their approach.
Either way, they’re worth a look and the third video is a critique of Algore– who wants [...]

This new age of media we enjoy is a wonderful thing. People who in the past would have been uninformed or misinformed by three networks and an Old Gray Whore in New York now have more access to up-to-the-minute and accurate information than ever before. However, even the most informed among us can lose sight [...]

My internet access is back and so am I. I apologize to the Axis of Right community for my recent prolonged absence. I assure you it will not happen again.
I am firmly in the camp that believes She Who Must Not be Named is a virtual lock for the Democrat nomination in 2008. She will [...]

I’m quite worried that the President is going to mess things up tonight with this televised address to the nation on the issue of immigration. He needs to secure the border with a fence, guard and serious consequences for those coming over illegally.
Instead, I fear, we’ll just get placation– a token few guardsmen, a whimpering [...]

Yet another classified NSA program has been spilled to the press by “anonymous sources”. Apparently, the NSA keeps a database of all phone calls made in America to try to get “trends” on people to determine if there are any trends that have terrorist underpinnings. They do not, however, listen to the content of the [...]

Apparently, the major powers have no agreement on what to do with Iran. I was actually hopeful that Mahmoud’s letter was going to break the deadlock– that Iran wanted to engage the world community, but under certain conditions that we could accomplish through nuance and back channels. Apparently, Mahmoud just wanted to nag Bush directly, [...]

So now it’s prescription drugs. This story sounds even more shady today. Kennedy gets to admit he has human failings, gets to go to the Mayo Clinic while the heat dies down, and gets to fly, yet again, to reelection in the People’s Republic of Rhode Island. A very convenient, almost formulaic situation. Pelosi and [...]