Archives for October, 2008

Obama tried underminding Bush’s negotiations with Iraqis…


That’s the “Exlusive” from the Washington Times this morning: At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn’t be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval. [...]

Single issue voter?


This bailout business and the financial crisis has really just chaffed my rear. I’ve only posted a couple blogs about it, but my facebook profile has seen post after post on it. I’ve always made sure not to let myself become a single-issue voter, but this might’ve done it. Let me explain by taking abortion [...]

Not a bad summary of the housing crisis…


I think this video is racist. Barney says so… Though, right now, I’m not exactly thrilled that McCain is the alternative, he sure the hell beats Obama by a mile. Maybe it’s time for conservatives to start their own party? Oh yea, also, just to make sure we’re clear, it’s also racist for a white [...]

SNL sketch is back up…


So yesterday I posted about the media protecting Democrats, including removing the SNL skit. Well, it’s back up. And the took out some significant jabs: Monday NBC mysteriously yanked the skit’s video from the network’s website, fueling online rumors the show was caving to pressures from well-connected Democrats. The video was later reposted and a [...]

Thomas Jefferson’s opinion on the financial crisis and disappearing media


(Edited: title changed to better reflect the content of post.) Some words of wisdom from one of our Founding Fathers: “I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a [...]