John Thune videos

With the recent comments concerning South Dakota Senator John Thune and the possibility of him running for President in 2012, I did a YouTube search for him and found several videos that I like. I know the first one is an old campaign ad, but I found it very engaging and funny. The second is [...]

Public-financed campaigns

Is there anyone here who hasn’t felt overwhelmed by the amount of money spent on political campaigns? I don’t know about you, but I have bemoaned for years, the fact that it seems to take so much money to even think about being competitive in a national election. It doesn’t matter if we are talking [...]

Inauguration Day–2009

As I write my usual morning article, it is on a day unlike any I have seen in my lifetime. I am only 46 years old, but I have lived through several Presidents and their inaugurations and I have never witnessed such excitement as I am seeing today. Driving into work this morning, I was [...]

The legacy of George W. Bush

As we near the end of President Bush’s 2nd and last term in office, I thought it would be fitting to write about the legacy of one of the most maligned Presidents our country has ever had and most certainly, one of the most unpopular Presidents in my lifetime.
One of George Bush’s biggest failures has [...]

Who says Barack Obama doesn’t have a sense of humor?

There were some rumors during the Presidential campaign that Barack Obama didn’t have much of a sense of humor, but I am glad to report, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Anyone who can take being hung up on twice has to have at least a little sense of humor. According to The Associated [...]

Saxby Chambliss denies the Democrats a super majority in the Senate

With Barack Obama winning the White House and Democrats winning seat after seat in Congress, it was of the greatest importance that they were denied the sixty vote super majority in the Senate. Obtaining this goal would have allowed them to block any filibuster Republican Senators might have attempted, in an effort to block Democratic [...]

Has the economic bailout accomplished anything?

When it became apparent several weeks ago that our economy was in much more serious trouble than the experts first believed, Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, came to Congress and said he needed $700 billion to fix the problems our economy faced. It was a “need to do it right now” moment and after [...]

Bill Ayers and Barack Obama

We are all very familiar with the questions about Barack Obama’s relationship with William (Bill) Ayers, the Vietnam era radical terrorist who has said he wishes he could have done more during his time of rebellion. As if planting bombs in his own country was not enough. More familiar are the denials by Obama that [...]

Free healthcare equals a financial bailout for the automotive industry

First, there was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac receiving help from the federal government. Then Lehman Brothers was allowed to go belly up, before AIG received some $85 billion dollars in their own financial bailout. Not long after that, the $700 billion bailout package was passed by Congress, after being touted as a necessary evil [...]

Let’s be fair to President Barack Obama

Barack Obama has not even hired his entire staff, much less been sworn in and already, we are seeing negative articles about him and the people he is choosing to fill his staff positions. How I feel about Obama is not a big secret. I am no fan of the man and I really question [...]

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