September 28, 2008
Don’t Let Them Crash
A scene from the classic movie Airplane keeps coming to my head. The famous conservative commentator Jack Kirkpatrick, who used to do a Point/Counterpoint segment on 60 minutes said this about efforts to rescue the plane from...
September 26, 2008
Historic Debate
If you don’t get the history of this debate, you aren’t paying attention. The fact that Barack Obama could come to Oxford, Mississippi, the home of Ole Miss, and debate as the Democratic nominee for...
September 26, 2008
The Same Old Rodeo
(This originally appeared in The Politico) I have been to this rodeo before. House Republicans are in full revolt. A prominent Republican leader condemns harshly a plan put forward by the president. Dire consequences are promised...
September 26, 2008
Irony
According to Wikipedia: “Irony is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what one says or does, and what one means or what is generally understood. In modern usage, it can...
September 25, 2008
Louisiana Purchase
In 1803, Thomas Jefferson paid about $23 million dollars for 828,000 square miles that included Louisiana, some parts of Texas, most of Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, some parts of Minnesota, Kansas, Oklahoma, most of Montana, most of Wyoming, parts...
September 25, 2008
Socialism, Capitalism, the Free-Market and the Future of America
Who said: “Socialism is the only route to the salvation of the world.” No, it is not Barack Obama or Barney Frank or Harry Reid or any of the other Democrats who have blamed President Bush’s “philosophy” for the...