Wow, Obama actually is that turtle on a fencepost
Conservatives often liken Obama to a turtle on a fencepost who didn’t get up there by himself, doesn’t belong there and doesn’t know what to do while he is up there. I used to laugh at that joke, but I still had a healthy amount of respect for Obama, who earned his position through talent and [...]
Politics MMSR: The Dems fire back on Benghazi
It was hardly Custer’s last stand, but the Dems were kind of circling wagons on Sunday. On the defensive over mounting questions over Benghazi and the administration’s questionable response, Democrats began pushing back over the GOP’s investigation of the matter. They came forward with several lines of attack on the Sunday talk shows. Number one, [...]
The evolving legacy of George W. Bush
With the dedication last week and the grand opening today of the George W. Bush library in Dallas, more people have started to take another look at the 43rd president and his legacy. Polling organizations as well. Many people were surprised to learn that Bush’s approval rating now matches Barack Obama’s at 47%, according to a [...]
The media finds its ‘gay Jackie Robinson’
Good for Jason Collins, finding the fortitude to come out of the closet in public. The story has been broken, now let’s hope the media will let it die. Nobody wants to really spend their days at work mulling the sexual preferences of their co-workers and answering questions about it, do they? Of course they don’t. [...]
Politics MMSR: Crucial topic discussion with Sarah Palin and the ‘nerd prom’
The Sunday talk shows were dominated with talk of Syria and Boston this week. Oh, and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WVa) said he hasn’t given up on gun control compromise in the Senate yet. Sorry, but that doesn’t warrant another “Hey, we might get gun control after all” title from PMandS.com. For now. But let’s not trifle [...]
There was no need to make Dzhokhar Tsarnaev an ‘enemy combatant’
I’m a Republican, generally down with the whole “War on Terror” thing. In my opinion, a lot of what George W. Bush did after 9/11 has been vindicated simply by the fact that the Obama administration has continued almost all of it. But I have to tell you, sometimes my Republican friends in the House [...]
Politics MMSR: A Republican laments the demise of Manchin-Toomey
Tragedy rightfully overshadowed most politics last week. It was a bad week for everybody with the Boston and Texas tragedies, but gun control proponents on the Hill had to also endure a humiliating defeat in the Senate. The Manchin-Toomey compromise proposal was defeated, as well as every gun control measure put to a vote. If [...]
Politics MMSR: Hey, we may get some gun control after all
Last Sunday the prospects for getting any gun control through the Senate seemed bleak, but now 60 votes for a (somewhat) universal background check seems an attainable goal. How things can change in DC in a week. The Senate continues to work on immigration reform and discussing Obama’s budget, but it seems like they’re close [...]
The welfare state continues to sap our economic freedoms
Many in the US watched with a bit of concern over the EU extracting 10-40% of Cyprus bank account deposits as part of a bailout package for the island. Depositors were locked out of the banks and without notice the government appropriated 10-40% of their savings to satisfy unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. Hard-earned and hard-saved [...]
Politics MMSR: Kim Jong Un is watching you
Five major topics on the Sunday talk show circuit yesterday. North Korea Is it time for us to start learning Korean so we can turn in our traitorous neighbors to the Glorious Leader once North Korea has occupied us, like in the terrible Red Dawn remake? Probably not quite yet, but you may have heard [...]