To those who check this space on a regular basis, I would like to say that the last few weeks have been a bit on the light side (as far as new material goes). The original paucity of posting arose from a trip I took with my family to see the members of our collective families who happen to live a half a continent away.
Then, the day we returned from that 4200-mile adventure, I was given a gift by one of my daughters. Considering that it was apparently the swine flu, I should (in retrospect) have turned it down. That one knocked me for a loop, though the rest of the family seemed to weather it much better than I. First time I’ve ever had a flu and largely kept my appetite.
Once the fever finally left me with some of my pre-fall strength, I realized that my sinuses had apparently colluded with the flu to ensure that the excitement would continue in its absence. I’m glad to say that I’m now about halfway through a regimen with my good friend Amoxicillin and looking for the end of this particular part of the journey.
In addition to to all of this, my remaining grandfather passed away about the time the swine flu had run its course. It has a been quite a draining few weeks–but I trust that I’ll be back to full strength (and full programming) soon.
He followed an unpopular president. He received a strong election mandate. He changed the tone in Washington.
He said that Human Rights mattered. That America’s image in the world had to be remade.
He would receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
As the end of his presidency’s first year drew near, the future looked bright. He had brought change — change that mattered.
It was 1977. The next year was very bad.
James Carafano takes us back in the time machine and then explains why things feel so much like deja vu all over again. Let’s hope that a full generation (many of whom remember those years well) does not expect that doing things similarly will result in remarkably different outcomes. In many ways, the world hasn’t changed. Humans haven’t changed at all. We’ve just got more data with which to work.
While I’ve no personal connection to a special election which is occurring in New York’s 23rd District, I am nonetheless encouraged by how matters look at present.
If you’ve not been keeping up to date, here is the skinny: Current representative appointed to something in federal government leaves seat open. Newt Gingrich et al like Dede Scozzafava for the position. Democrats pick Bill Owens. Another chap, Doug Hoffman says “wait a minute, I’m a conservative, why did you guys pick Dede?”
Then, the race gets interesting. Jim Demint, Sarah Palin, and Mike Huckabee (among others) have now backed Hoffman, who does indeed seem to be the true conservative in the race.
For the latest, you can’t beat the work which RS McCain is doing both in New York, his pleasant domicile and many points in between.
Here’s the thing, the NYRP (New York Republican Party) may find out that in choosing pragmatism over principle in its selection of Ms. Scozzafava, it showed voters why party seems to be little more than a kinder, gentler way of losing, when one really doesn’t have to.
That is what Victor Davis Hanson lays on President Obama and the failed policies of the executive branch.
Oil is climbing back over $80 a barrel; the dollar is falling against the Euro to 1.50. The annual deficit is already over $1.6 trillion and may go well over that. The tab for health care will hit right under $1 trillion. Unemployment may be headed over 10%. The people who voted for Obama were mad over Bush’s bailouts, unemployment, deficits, and supposed divisiveness. And?
They got greater bailouts, higher unemployment, larger deficits, and Chicago politics.
VDH shows us that instead of providing the leadership our country needs, President Obama has chosen to spend his time trying to stomp out those who dare question his authority. As Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds, likes to sarcastically say, “the county’s in the very best of hands”.
Timekeeper Tople is my father. Needless to say, his family and friends are very proud of him. As you can imagine, after almost 40 years of running the clock he’s pretty much seen it all when it comes to high school sports, and he’s loved pretty much every minute of it. Enjoy your retirement, Dad.
Milton Friedman closes his 10 part series by helping us see what is necessary for us to stay free. Some of what he says is frightening in light of recent moves by the federal government to drive its influence ever deeper into our country’s business.
Dollar store burns down. No word if inflation was involved.
Herseth Sandlin against public option, or for it. It depends.
Less sand, more salt–roadways to see change is cold-weather recipe.
(Ed Note: My grandfather passed away early this morning. He was 97. Hard to understand/comprehend how much change he saw since 1912. He will be greatly missed.)
1 out of 3 supply managers in Midwest thinks that economy is going down, not up. http://bit.ly/ar1ZVg
Why do I fee like an ant under a magnifying glass every time Obama decides to focus on something?
"Part of the Republicansâ platform this fall should be to abolish the Department of Education."http://bit.ly/cTffvv | if only
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