Category Archives: Politics
Former Reagan staffer is voting for…
Obama. I’m a lifelong Republican – a supply-side conservative. I worked in the Reagan White House. I was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for five years. In 1994, I helped write the Republican Contract with America. … Continue reading
It’s happening again
Remember in the run up to the Iraq war how we were fed misinformation leading us to believe Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), several different ways of distributing it, and were supplying it to terrorists? If so, then … Continue reading
Close the “Enron Loophole”
What is the “Enron Loophole?” It was an amendment in the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 which allowed electronic futures trading to be deregulated. This allows speculators and traders to operate without oversight, or “in the dark” as the … Continue reading
“Enemy Combatants” have rights, says the Supreme Court… again.
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt another blow to Bush’s attempt to usurp the Constitution by ruling that Guantanamo Bay detainees have the right to challenge their detention in civilian courts in the U.S.: In its third rebuke of the Bush … Continue reading
Jeremiah Wright
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been a controversial figure and a lightning rod for attacks on Barack Obama. I have only one question: Why? Why should one man’s views be interpreted as the beliefs of another? Why should one man’s … Continue reading
“Ponder the Maunder”
That’s the name of a website published by a 16 year-old high school honors student. This young woman (she’s too smart to simply be called a “girl”) has taken on Global Warming with independent research, and she’s won me over. … Continue reading
“Your opinion sucks because you don’t agree with me!”
While reading my morning tech news, I stumbled across an article that gave me real enlightenment by providing a reason for the fanaticism I see not only among the Mac and Windows users, but among people in general. It’s an excerpt from … Continue reading
Cheney doesn’t care about us
In an interview with ABC News concerning the Iraq war, Vice President Cheney was told that polls indicate 2/3rds of Americans believe the effort in Iraq is not worth it. Cheney’s response: “So?”
Why I won’t vote for McCain
From the blog “The Nation:” Seven years later, who is running McCain’s South Carolina campaign? Charlie Condon, the former State Attorney General who in 2000 helped spread the innuendo targeting (McCain’s adopted daughter from Bangladesh) Bridget. If you can’t beat … Continue reading
Finally some facts about “daylight savings time”
Indiana had long been a hold-out on the switch to Daylight Savings Time (DST), an issue which bothered some of Indiana’s residents. They were tired of not being on the same time as their neighbors in other states. Some counties … Continue reading