Back in the primaries, one of our esteemed fellow JU members wrote about a key primary in their state and how it was nice at first that they were getting attention, but not for long. Fast forward about 7 months. ANd multiply by $600million! This state has become the keystone state. Several are said to be in play, but for some reason, the candidates see this one as the key state. I really wish they did not. While it is flattering (not really) to think that "our vo...
A week ago we were enlightened with the choice of John McCain of his VP pick - Sarah Palin. While I for one am impressed with her credentials and her nomination, I am still not a McCain Palin supporter. Although I am leaning in that direction. I still have to get over the top of the ticket. Apparently many others do as well - or have decided to ignore it and focus on the lower half of the ticket. I have noticed that many democrats, Obama/Biden included, are somehow under ...
Life imitates art. We see that every day when there is a new crises that mirrors a novel (Executive Orders - 9/11). But we should not be seeing it when someone is supposedly serious! Yet we do. The latest Obamabomb is that he sees dead people. Really! On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong. He saw fallen heros in the a...
Even if it is only a year early, the sooner we get rid of Tim "Ted Matthews" Kaine, the better for the Commonwealth! Why should we be the only ones to suffer?
With the "suspension" of his campaign, Romney has all but conceded the Republican nomination to McCain. Many on the right side of the spectrum, are howling as they cannot stand or support McCain, and so for a bit, the debate will shift on what they will do. Which will just be a misdirection by the MSM since what they (the non-McCain supporters) will do is not going to matter for 9 more months. What is going to happen in the here and now, is that the cat fight over on the democrat sid...
One of the slams against liberals (and by extension the party of them - Democrats) is the total abrogation of personal responsibility. Nothing is ever the fault of anyone. It is all due to outside forces that conspire to rob people of life, liberty and the pursuit of their happiness. Thus they must continually enact new legislation in order to prevent such outside forces from wrecking havoc on the lives of the poor innocent happiness seekers. This is the snake oil that they ...
Al Gore is garnering praises for making his home Global Warming friendlier. Note, not "friendly" but friendlier. So now, instead of using 10 times the energy that ma and Pa America use (as evil and wasteful as THEY are), he is only using about 7 times the energy. And this while the polar bears die of starvation, drown and otherwise go extinct, and he jets to all corners of the earth to pick up faux awards for his "feelings". And is this going to make Al Gore more Eco-friendly?&nbs...
Since the anti-war movement got cranked up, one of the slams against them was that they were tarring the troops with their rhetoric and actions. After the shame of their actions during the Vietnam War, this was a very sensitive subject as most (definitely not all) people understood that the soldiers were doing the job they were ordered to do, and not setting the policy of where and when to wage war. To that end, there have been repeated denials by members of the anti-war movement that t...
For those living in a cave, Dennis Kucinich, that bastion of moderate politics, has questioned Bush's Mental Health. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/wireStory?id=3795902 It would seem that the questions of mental health should be following the other 3 fingers: http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/kucinich_i_did_see_a_ufo.html And he still gets elected. (Editors note: for those wondering about the "3 fingers", point at some one and see where the rest of ...
Yes, I am negative. I am negative on Clinton's fake memory. I am negative on Edwards fake search for the second America. I am negative on Obama's war mongering. I am negative on their aids and associates criminal dealings that do not affect them. And I am a conservative. And I also know that nothing will change. And I also know that this is going to be ignored by democrats. And I do understand. But i so wish I could at least root for, much less vot...
Al Sharpton recently threatened Republicans. Not with bodily harm or any such tricks of the trade that come from a Mickey Spillane novel. But with the threat that "Black Voters" should "Punish" them. For a threat to be of any use, it has to have some kind of penalty behind it. Unfortunately, this one does not. Oh, the threat can be made, but it amounts to Ralph Cramden's "To the Moon, Alice" threat. There is nothing to back it up. And so it is with this one. ...
Seems the Clintons really are on the side of the poor! As long as they can give 5 and 6 figure campaign donations. Back in 96 (for the younguns here), one of Gore's top fundraisers was caught with their hands in the poor box. Seems Maria Hsai solicited $65,000 from a bunch of monks who had taken a vow of poverty. She was later convicted of various crimes, and of course we all know that the esteemed legal Scholar orated on that episode that there was "no Controlling legal Aut...
One of the things the democrats promised (one of the very few things) when Elected was to clean up congress and get rid of the way things had been done. To bring in a more ethical and cleaner governance. And to some degree, some have been trying. Some actually tried to air out Earmarks (and then others backed off of that) in the house. The senate is now trying to clean up its ethics. Well maybe. Sen. Jim DeMint is apparently for it. And since it only affect...
I'm a Conservative and I love my country. I'm a Conservative and I am Catholic. Our religion is not political. I am a Conservative and I think it's a compliment when you call me a conservative I am a Conservative and I think the ACLU started with the noblest of intentions, but has perverted their charter to further a political agenda. I am a Conservative and I don't want the United States to be world police. I am a Conservative and I think TRUE tolerance is a virtue, but the misde...
The words of the title were once told to me by a priest. A very liberal priest (theologically speaking) who did not agree with all the statements made by the Pope, but who was and is a good priest. Many people have issues with the Catholic Church. Some are theological, some personal and some political. But the simple fact is that Catholicism (and I suspect most if not all faiths) is not a faith by consensus. We have a set of beliefs, tenets, that we profess and t...