tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60005942024-03-08T05:19:54.218-08:00EndnotePolitical Observations of a Passionate CentristUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-60993944754630024342010-07-27T22:09:00.000-07:002011-12-11T23:14:17.076-08:00Some of my favorite Videos
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=XdZuyt6UI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZTo0iGc_Dw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRl5HWZS6JY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS24s4pYY28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pq79lYauZo&feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-6734282487576439702009-12-06T08:45:00.000-08:002009-12-06T08:46:54.935-08:00The Afghanstan Surge TimetableLeaving aside the fact that President Obama waited 3 months to make this decision, then give essentially the same speech he'd given before, the President did the right thing. At least in the sort run.
I make this decision because I am convinced that our security is at stake in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is the epicenter of the violent extremism practiced by al Qaeda. It is from here Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-12903502353732542652009-10-15T08:09:00.000-07:002009-10-16T08:26:36.201-07:00Clarity on Obama, Health Care & the Nobel PrizeWhat better confirmation of the line, "Liberals care about intentions, conservatives care about consequences", does one need than Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize? It was, after all, explicitly awarded on the basis of "hope" over any meaningful accomplishments.
I have no doubt, with history and an understanding of human nature as my guide, that Obama's foreign policy will not Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-78227532358306353792009-08-29T09:49:00.000-07:002009-08-30T08:28:58.051-07:00Ted Kennedy R.I.P.All the major networks and cable news stations preempted their programming today to cover the Kennedy memorial. I shouldn't be surprised.As I learn more about Ted Kennedy's earlier years, the more amazed I become at the double standard of elite opinion. We truly live in different moral universes.The cheating and expulsion from Harvard, multiple instances of drunk driving, womanizing, and of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-86960506909133424942009-08-10T10:10:00.000-07:002009-08-10T10:31:17.434-07:00Minimum Wage LunacyI recently had an ongoing dialog with someone on the minimum wage. It started with the article below and our dialog follows. I'm not certain of its significance, but note how many questions I pose and he asks not a single questions from me. A Minimum Wage Equals Minimum JobsThe unseen costs of minimum wage lawsJohn Stossel | July 30, 2009 The media are never better at displaying Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-80941998204632699552009-07-16T19:44:00.001-07:002009-07-16T19:50:15.116-07:00New BusinessIn case anyone is interested, I've got a new business going. I've purchased a couple new and different URL's to drive traffic. Its all a lot o voodoo.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-38287427748185326032009-02-22T10:50:00.000-08:002009-02-22T11:02:18.753-08:00Taking ChancePresident Obama had his first press conference and took 13 questions from a preselected list of journalists. In one of the questions, President Obama was asked if he was going to lift the restrictions placed on the press of photographing killed American soldiers returning from Iraq, "so Americans can see the true costs of war". I was shocked and angered at this naked admission that the media Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-79198890832328509162008-12-05T21:31:00.000-08:002009-08-29T10:53:44.578-07:00Think About ItDuring the height of the Iraq War, I often wondered if good news actually depressed the anti-war crowd. Even more telling, I wondered if bad news, like American soldiers getting killed did more than energize them, but actually gave them pleasure. Then a couple journalists admitted to just that. Think about it.Recently in Virginia, there was speculation that the DNA analysis of a man executedUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-72420230158360921952008-10-20T16:40:00.000-07:002009-04-29T10:59:28.640-07:00Check ListDo you believe Unions should have secret ballots?Obama doesn'tDo you believe that we should have open trade with our strongest ally in South America?Obama doesn'tDo you believe that America should immediatley open up drilling offshore?Obama doesn'tDo you believe that America should immediatley take steps to increase our nuclear power generating capabilities?Obama doesn'tDo you believe in racial Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-51441122927453714112008-10-20T07:25:00.000-07:002008-10-21T21:28:44.187-07:00The FraudIt has been repeated many times that people just don't care about William Ayers or the Reverend Wright. People are worried about jobs and the economy...The problem with that is that democrats and, more important, the media didn't care prior to the present financial crisis. The truth is that Obama supporters are not about to let a few little truths awake them from their trance.The main truth is Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-38288643938406567482008-10-16T08:41:00.000-07:002008-10-21T21:11:48.651-07:00John McCain - FrustratingI am certain that I am not alone when I say that watching John McCain debate is an exercise in frustration. His problem? He just doesn't drive his points home. Rather than emphasize or explain a vitally important point, he moves on to another and another only to repeat the mistake he made on the first. The result is the dilution of each point and the issue floats off into the ether.When Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-74423392498817608902008-08-20T18:46:00.000-07:002008-08-20T18:52:07.399-07:00Obama's "Vote"First of all, Obama didn't vote against the authorization to use force to remove Saddam Hussein. He was in the Illinois State Senate at the time. Nonetheless, people (Obama, included) seemed impressed that he opposed the removal of Saddam "from the start".The entire world thought that Saddam had stockpiles of WMD's. Obama's simply didn't care.I wish a reporter would ask Obama if he would haveUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-610707616891940072008-07-06T10:09:00.000-07:002008-07-06T10:11:10.932-07:00End the War?Does anybody think the Vietnam War "ended" or do people think we lost the Vietnam War?Why then, does anybody think Obama will "end" the war in Iraq as opposed to Obama losing it?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-9733321414587666592008-05-12T08:43:00.000-07:002008-05-12T08:55:49.254-07:00Energy & MarketPicking market winners and losers is best left out of the hands of government. Two separate posts at Instapundit tie this together nicely. I tied them. Good Lord, now we've got Republicans proposing Five Year Plans and Seven Step programs like some 1930's Soviet Beet Kommissar. The last thing we need is the know-nothings in Congress pretending they have the expertise required to plan the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-84035224643106194032008-05-01T10:35:00.003-07:002008-05-05T14:58:25.048-07:00Michelle Obama and HealthcareI've got a series of questions for Barak Obama.Question: Where does your wife work?Barak: University of Chicago Hospitals.Question: What is her title?Barak: Manager of the Business Diversity Program.Question: What is her salary?Barak: $350,000 per year.Question: So her job is to chose which suppliers get some proportion of the hospital's business based not on quality of service or cost, butUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-79656061177558339282008-04-29T08:07:00.000-07:002008-04-29T18:17:34.645-07:00Who Can Be Against Preventing Voter Fraud?The Wall Street Journal had two pieces today on the Supreme Court that answer the question "who's against preventing voter fraud?"The first article mentions the usual suspects:Those opposing the Indiana statute, including the ACLU, Acorn, the Brennan Center and other liberal activist groups argued that ID laws impose an undue burden and disenfranchise some voters...The dissenting opinion, writtenUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-23210788665638390672008-04-23T21:19:00.000-07:002008-04-24T10:12:07.296-07:00Obama's Chickens Coming to RoostThe North Carolina GOP aired an ad tying local Democrat candidates with the Reverend Wright. John McCain has denounced the ad. It seems pretty tame to me. You don't have to be very creative to think of a whole lot worse. Powerlineblog has posted a series of MP3's of unrepentant terrorists and Obama aquaintances Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn talking about revolution, the future of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-62472558042464817582008-04-21T09:24:00.000-07:002008-04-21T21:57:38.432-07:00Obama, the Terrorist, and the KlanSteve Chapman wrote a good piece in today's Chicago Tribune about Barak Obama's relationship to an unrepentant terrorist. Here, he gets to the main issues of Obama's moral equivalence and the double standard of his supporters in the media:"Would Obama be friendly with someone who actually bombed abortion clinics and defends that conduct? Not likely. But he is friendly with William Ayers, a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-68178837863047960892008-04-18T09:16:00.000-07:002008-04-20T11:25:22.310-07:00Tax Cuts = SpendingYesterday I caught a few moments of Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. His guest was Howard Dean. I quote from memory:"John McCain has proposed $80 billion in new spending - basically tax cuts - and has no way of paying for them".What is interesting is Dean didn't correct himself in mid-sentence. He clarified himself. Tax cuts = spending.Revealing mind set on who's money Dean thinks we are Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-16137066310287668792008-04-08T07:34:00.000-07:002008-04-09T13:08:10.469-07:00Benefit of the DoubtEarlier I was linked to an article that was questioning the ongoing significance of Obama's minister ("sounding board", "mentor", "campaign adviser" ...). A couple of the those posting comments asked readers to give Obama the "benefit of the doubt". I did.I gave Obama the "benefit of the doubt" when he decided not to wear an American flag on his lapel. I gave Obama the "benefit of the doubt" Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-53444974591221255252008-02-24T09:39:00.000-08:002008-02-24T12:16:15.859-08:00Mrs. ObamaWhat struck me about Michelle Obama's prepared statement that 'this is the first time in my adult life that I am proud of my country" was the reaction (or lack thereof) of the crowd. Had a Republican said such a thing I imagine a collective gasp from the crowd, not nodding heads and polite cheers.The moment I heard that Princeton wasn't going to release Michelle Obama's sociology thesis, I Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-42878006045619867402008-02-16T09:18:00.000-08:002008-04-09T13:04:40.881-07:00ObamaIt is nice when events reaffirm your core beliefs. Obama-mania is such an event. The comparisons of Obama to JFK were inevitable. Young, good-looking, beautiful wife, fine orator...Democrat. All of this is serving to reaffirm one of my principle beliefs about the way most conservatives and liberals think. Not what they think - how they think.Liberalism subsists on imagery.JFK is an icon Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-51754091991497339932007-11-18T09:03:00.001-08:002008-01-26T10:04:35.833-08:00Bush's RecordI ran across a link at the Real Clear Politics website by Markos Moulitsas. Mr. Moulitsas is head of DailyKos, the most popular destination on the internet for Democrats to get information. The link was titled "Make the Bush Record the Issue". Curious what the other side is saying, I clicked on the link. Here is the opening paragraph:Times are tough for the Republican Party and its Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-48110613483877605982007-03-15T09:19:00.000-07:002009-04-29T11:05:44.839-07:00Global Warming QuestionsHere are a couple questions for those who unquestionably accept the prevailing global warming hysteria (and with it the demands for more government control, regulations, taxes....)1. How much has the earth "warmed" the past 100 years?2. How much should the earth have warmed without human influence?3. In return for hundreds of trillions of dollars to combat Global Warming we can expect what level Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6000594.post-1166574079251737322006-12-19T16:20:00.000-08:002006-12-19T16:21:40.446-08:00Letter to WSJThe Wall Street Journal ran my letter last Friday:Mr. Kann's essay had many fine observations and suggestions. However, I believe he missed a fundamental point. He did identify "pack journalism" but failed to clearly identify the inherent problems therein -- journalists write to impress one another. This inevitable tendency arises from the reward/punishment environment of the newsroom. Personal Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0