If you were unnerved by the debt ceiling spectacle of the last month, where America came across like a Third World nation, get used to it. It’s a sign of things to come. Americans often talk about our uniqueness, of how we are a shining example to the world. When it comes to providing freedom to its … Continue reading
It’s too easy to pick on the continuing gaffes of the embryonic Bachmann campaign. At a recent speech in New Hampshire she mentioned how that state started the American Revolution at the battle of Lexington and Concord. Not to put too fine a point on it but those battles occurred over the state line in Massachusetts. I guess … Continue reading
Delaware accomplished something yesterday that it hasn’t done since it was the first state to ratify the Constitution in 1787; it got mentioned in the news. Since then it’s been a long dry spell for media coverage (other than when a favorite son named Joe Biden, who was primarily known for his bloviating in Congress, was … Continue reading
In the mid-1850′s, a political party called the “Know Nothings” grew in America. They were also known as the American Party and the Republican American Party. They were fiercely anti-immigration, particularly against the unwashed masses of Catholics arriving on our shores from Germany and Ireland. They felt that these new groups would owe fealty to the Pope. They … Continue reading
Whenever I travel I like to get a copy of the local newspaper to see what’s going on around the country and to get other viewpoints. They provide more insight than reading the short paragraphs of USA Today. Last week I was in South Dakota so I had the opportunity to read the Rapid City … Continue reading
I’ve travelled all over the former Confederacy and I’ve witnessed an interesting phenomenon the further south you get. Up north you hear references to the Civil War. Once you get about 20 miles out from Washington, DC it becomes the War Between The States. Cross below Virginia and it becomes the War for Southern Independence. I’ve travelled the byways … Continue reading
A few months ago I started to write a post decrying the Obama is Hitler signs at Tea Party rallies. I never finished it as things cooled off and it seemed like the Hitler analogy was just a passing trend, like Crocs. That is until news came in today of a billboard put up by the North Iowa … Continue reading
For those of you who may not have made it to Washington for the health care vote, here is a video showing what mob rule and the hysteria of crowds looks like. Congressman Cleaver may not have been spit upon on purpose. Personally I think the protestor getting in his face may have just worked his … Continue reading
The Tea Partiers have hit new heights, or lows in this case. The FBI is investigating an incident at the home of the brother of Congressman Tom Perriello (D-VA). Apparently a Tea Party activist in Lynchburg, Virginia, Mike Troxel, was angry over Perriello’s vote for the health care bill. He posted Perriello’s address on-line and encouraged fellow whackos to “stop by” … Continue reading
The Tea Party met in Washington over the weekend for one last rally on the eve of voting on the health care bill. Even by Tea Party standards the wackos were out in force, and I’m not just referring to Michelle Bachman. What is disturbing is the increasingly vitriolic and violence inciting tone of the Tea Partiers. Black lawmakers … Continue reading
Normally I don’t agree with much of what Frank Rich has to say as he tacks too far to the left. However, in today’s column he addresses the real danger facing this country as anti-government rhetoric has reached the point where violence is being increasingly justified. A case in point is the murder two weeks ago … Continue reading
I was toodling around the Fox News web site the other day when I came across this headline: “Dem Derided for Laughing at Pledge of Allegiance”. Hmm, I thought. What could this be? Who is this Dem who would dare mock the Pledge of Allegiance? Does he truly hate this country and all it stands for and who, … Continue reading
