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Obama’s Speech on Afghanistan

December 1, 2009

Here’s what I took from the President’s speech tonight on the future of the War in Afghanistan:
“The common security of the world is at stake” says the President, but we’re getting out in 18 months because it’s a rather pricey endeavor.  OK, Taliban and al Qaeda types, just wait until July 2011 and start your [...]

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What’s an Extra $2 Trillion Anyway?

August 25, 2009

Nine trillion dollars.  It looks like this:  $9,000,000,000,000.00.  The OMB reinforced these projected 10-year budget deficit numbers today.  What’s amazing is that earlier in his tenure, the Obama Administration touted the much healthier $7.1 trillion deficit.  That looks like this:  $7,100,000,000,000.00.  I’d feel like laughing, if this wasn’t so scary.
But what’s an extra two trillion [...]

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9.5%

July 2, 2009

Or to put in another way:  Nine point five percent!   Bad humor, but in all seriousness at the end of the day there’s no good way view this.  That’s the highest unemployment rate we’ve seen since August 1983, as the US economy shaved another 467,000 jobs in the month of June. 
Unemployment is considered a lagging indicator when it [...]

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Let’s Give ‘em a Standing O

May 5, 2009

Unconscious press bias at its You Tube best!  Though the press briefing room has more informal etiquette rules, it’s an interesting contrast nonetheless, given that the press’ respect for Bush was nearly non-existent, and given that the MSM clearly views Obama as ”too big to fail.”  
However, sometimes they did actually stand for Bush.  In this cleverly cut video they [...]

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Down on the Dollar

March 24, 2009

The US dollar is not in good shape.  I will primarily blame Bush for this because it was during the last administration when the dollar was in free-fall for a many reasons, but nonetheless suffers greatly as a result.  Obama, however, has done nothing to fix that, in fact making the situation considerably worse by printing [...]

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A-10 Strikes are an A+!

January 25, 2009

Being a lazy Sunday morning with no football to look forward to, I decided to surf for something interesting, something “Anything Else.”   Typically, however, certain things always tend to catch my eye. 
The latest War on Terror buzz is that Obama is still continuing Bush’s drone policy out in the wilds of Afghanistan — cool, but Big Barry [...]

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Franken’s “Win” Predictable

January 5, 2009

So, it’s finally happened!  I can’t believe it went all the way until 2009 for the Democrats to manufacture enough votes to get Al Franken to win the Senate election in Minnesota.  I’ve been saying since November that Minnesota’s election outcome was pretty predictable — Franken was down on November 4 all the way through [...]

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“Change” 12 Months Later

December 26, 2008

Victor Davis Hanson has a great article reprinted on RCP which deals with a retrospective on the year that was.  Since Obama’s “change” mantra was embedded in our brains in such a “Sieg Heil” kind of way this past year, I thought Hanson’s take on what “change” means about a month-and-a-half after Election Day was enlightening:
Imagine [...]

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Giving Bush the Boot

December 14, 2008

Check out this video from President Bush’s surprise visit to Baghdad.  He was on a trip to celebrate the new Status of Forces (SOF) agreement that the Iraqi Parliament finally passed.

You know Obama would have hit the deck and whimper for his guards, possibly soiling himself slightly.  Bush not only gets back up after each thrown shoe, but [...]

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Colin Powell: Another Whiney RINO

December 13, 2008

Colin Powell is a well-established RINO.  So, I suppose his endorsement of The One last month was just another way for him to demonstrate his Republican credentials, at least according to the tone of this CNN story. 
Among other things, Powell takes a swipe at the conservative direction the party needs to go in by picking on [...]

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Bush Speech Irks Obama, Dems

May 15, 2008

President Bush was giving a speech to the Israeli Knesset commemorating the 60th birthday of Israel.  One of the most traumatic events in the history of the Jews and an integral part of the history of the state of Israel was the Holocaust, which only happened because of the horrors of World War II.  That war [...]

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Debating the demise of the Republican Party

January 25, 2008

There has been much talk of the demise of the GOP in recent weeks.  Rush Limbaugh has been making the case that if Huckabee or McCain are nominated, it will destroy the GOP.  In an article today, Peggy Noonan states that the GOP is already in shambles, and it is because of George W. Bush. 
On [...]

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