shadows... The latest example of what the Obama administration considers transparency was the long awaited testimony of Hillary Clinton this week on the catastrophe in Benghazi. Fortunately, Mrs. Clinton's health issues were finally resolved long enough for her to allow Congress...
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Baby Steps
Chinese philosopher Laozi said "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.". I suppose the same might be said of a journey of 16 trillion dollars. The sense is the same; the distance from where we are to where...
Children of a Broken Home… land
We are a nation that loves magic pills. We love easy answers to complex problems. Wouldn't it be great if you really could fix the leaking roof with that spray-on rubber in a can? Wouldn't you love if that five dollar bottle...
GPS For The GOP
We all have one of those friends... the "genius". They're always spouting off their brilliant ideas (or maybe blogging about them!), and if you're lucky the ideas they're spouting aren't always totally ridiculous. The thing is that they seem content with...
The Yawning Republican
The election of 2010 seemed to herald the awakening of a sleeping giant as Tea Party and conservative republican voters were elected in historically high numbers. The presidential election of this year, on the other hand, seems to indicate that...
Cliff Diving
In a verbal foible that would rival W's best, President Obama referred to himself as a "hopeless optimist" in his bon voyage speech on the impending fiscal cliff. This coming on the heels of John Boehner's failed attempt...
The Psychology of Mythology (There Are No Tigers Here)
A disheveled older man sat on a New York City bus clutching a single page of newspaper that looked as though it had been retrieved from the trash. Periodically he would tear off a tiny piece and release it out the...
Eating The Golden Goose
In much the same way that Thomas Paine's writings were an inspiration for the American Revolution, the philosophy of Jean Jacques Rousseau served as inspiration for the French one. It is Rousseau from which the anarchist maxim of "Eat The...
Shaking, Quaking, and Oathbreaking
Luminaries such as Charles Krauthammer and Rush Limbaugh have suggested the possibility of Republicans responding to the looming "Fiscal Cliff" by taking a page out of Barack Obama's playbook and simply voting "present" to whatever the President...
The Politics of Secession
We've all heard the reports of the "Secession Petitions" now originating from all fifty states and garnering several hundreds of thousands of signatures. We even have one going from this fine blue state of New York. I didn't sign it. I am...