Well, according to President Obama and his administration, the war in Iraq is officially over. Seven years after we first went into the country, the last of our combat brigades have left for home, leaving around 50,000 advisory troops to help the Iraqis find and keep their way to democracy. It remains to be...
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SHOULD WE TRUST OUR GOVERNMENT? This seems like a legitimate question to ask, but one that I am not sure I or anyone else has a good answer to. I have long since discovered that the politicians who represent me are pretty much great, but the ones who represent you, well maybe not so...
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Over the past several weeks, I have been listening to and reading the news and reading blogs, etc. as the rhetoric over health care reform and other policies of the Obama administration heats up even further. Both sides of the debate are going back and forth like a couple of alley dogs in a...
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For weeks and months in advance of the formal handover of security control of Iraqi cities on June 30, 2009, we were warned that the security gains made over the past year or so were still very fragile. Top U.S. commanders on the ground in Iraq continually played down the event and said it...
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One of the first things I disliked about Barack Obama is the way he seems to hold himself above us normal folk, as if he knows better than all of us what is best. Well, it seems as if our friend, the good Senator from Illinois has done it again. Not only has he...
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It never ceases to amaze me how politicians can say something at one point in their career or campaign and later act as if they didn’t mean or possibly didn’t say it. We have seen politicians reversing their positions and trying to cover their tracks like never before. Some may consider this article an...
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I suppose you could say the time of reckoning is at hand. The time of decision is certainly drawing closer and I need to decide how I will be voting in the Presidential election, come November. When the Republican primary season was in full swing, I didn’t have this problem. I made my decision...
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Do you remember the reaction Mitt Romney had a few weeks ago when Mike Huckabee did an editorial about the foreign policy of President Bush?  If your memory fails you, Romney came out very strongly and said Huckabee needed to apologize the President.  I want you to take a look at a news story...
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