Sometime in 1971, I got home from work and found a case of expensive wine from someone named Bill Parsons at my front door. Well, the only Bill Parsons I had ever met was the guy who supposedly had written and sung the country/rock crossover hit All American Boy over ten years earlier. But, I […]
Archives for July 2010
A Natural Gas Future
The Natural Gas Man – Philip Klein, The American Spectator As T. Boone Pickens says here, “wind is not going to move an 18-wheeler.” Natural gas transportation is proven technology and can be used to get the U.S. off Mideast oil. As skeptics of a domestic energy policy say, “Someone is going to buy the […]
SEIU in the Governor’s Mansion
Andy Stern’s replacement as president of SEIU is Mary Kay Henry. Henry said in her acceptance speech that the most important challenge for her organization is the race for governor in nine states this fall. California is one of those nine. The SEIU’s guy in the race is Jerry Brown. (He’s running against Meg Whitman). […]
Extend the Bush Tax Cuts
Bush Tax Cuts Roil Democrats – Martin Vaughan and John D. McKinnon, The Wall Street Journal It seems to be sinking in on some Senate Democrats that raising taxes, even (I would say especially) on the wealthy is a bad idea during a recession. Kent Conrad and Ben Nelson have joined Evan Bayh in backing […]
Life Savior – #1 Action for Your Family’s Health
Want to take the first step with me toward a dramatically improved lifestyle and lifesaving course of action for your family? Of course you do. Each of us has our family’s health as our first priority. OK, then. Here is how to begin today. Your first move is to boycott big box supermarkets. I have […]
New Raytheon Laser Weapon System Knocks Drone Out of the Sky
At the Farnborough air show a new laser weapons system was announced that can knock drones out of the sky. The Raytheon Laser Weapons System easily dispatched four drones in tests off the coast of California. The implications are enormous, as drones are an ever increasing part of world militaries. It would be interesting to […]
Lindsey Graham – Disgrace
DISGRACE – |disˈgrās| noun – loss of reputation or respect, esp. as the result of a dishonorable action What can Lindsey Graham be thinking? Yesterday he joined the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee in voting to move Elena Kagan’s nomination on to the full Senate. The votes on the committee broke down exactly as […]
Democrats Looking at Major Losses in November
‘Under Pressure, the Democrats Are Cracking.’ – Jim Geraghty, National Review The rumblings of GOP-majority in the Senate are a little premature, but welcome all the same. A Senate split 51-49, GOP to Democrat, is conceivable on paper, and given the direction of the mood around the country could actually happen. It would however need […]
The GOP Must Filibuster Kagan
Republican Senators Must Filibuster Elena Kagan – Erick Erickson, Human Events Mr. Erickson’s view that “Kagan’s views on the Commerce Clause and Americans’ right to “keep and bear arms” make her unfit to serve on the Supreme Court,” is dead right. The United States simply cannot afford to have Supreme Court justices willing to allow […]
Obama and the Unions Target the Private Sector
As Obama Kowtows, Unions Eye the Private Sector – Michael Barone, National Review It’s no wonder unions have declined to represent only 7% of the private sector workforce, everything they have touched has wilted and died. The auto companies and airlines are great examples of unions having driven their employers beyond profitability. The Obama administration […]