Archive for September, 2008

On the bailout

September 30, 2008
On the bailout

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The bad guys are the ones “fixing” this crisis.

September 28, 2008

Ron Paul gets it right on this financial crisis.  A couple salient quotes: The claim that the market caused all this is so staggeringly foolish that only politicians and the media could pretend to believe it. But that has become the conventional wisdom, with the desired result that those responsible for the credit bubble and its...
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These Effing Guys!!!

September 25, 2008
These Effing Guys!!!

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Maybe it doesn’t really matter that much

September 19, 2008

And maybe I don’t really want to feel this way. Peggy Noonan writes on the sneaking suspicion we all have, and wish we didn’t.  Here’s a bit of it: Do you ever have the passing thought that the presidential election doesn’t matter as much as we think? Whoever wins will govern within more of less...
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Marcia’s Still Got It

September 14, 2008

Marcia Fulmer has started her own arts and entertainment website/blog, marciamarciamarcia.net.  The new blog gives her more freedom to write what she wants, how she wants, etc., and she even has a daily update you can sign up for.  Stop by, check out the blog and give Marcia a shout! ...
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Viera’s new low

September 2, 2008

This morning, Meredith Viera presented a smug little Today Show segment on the problem of teen pregnancy, immediately following video of Obama (product of a teen pregnancy himself) demanding that families of candidates be off limits. Viera actually looked slightly embarrassed about it (wishful thinking, perhaps), and she should have been.  The segment didn’t talk...
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McCain’s chickens…

September 2, 2008

…. are coming home to roost.  As Bloomberg reports, his years of cultivating a relationship with the left-leaning mainstream media is paying him back — with attacks.  It’s obvious the MSM are in the tank for Obama, so even with McCain’s rep for “reaching across the aisle,” and supposed good relations with the media, ...
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And Now a Moment of Realism

September 1, 2008

From the WSJ Editorial Page: Barack Obama during his acceptance speech played a riff on Phil Gramm’s impolitic remarks about a “mental recession” and a “nation of whiners.” Like a succession of Democrats at the podium, he painted the economy in the darkest, most hopeless of colors — never mind that the economy is actually...
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Podcast

Smoking bans and mustaches

Commentary on the Elkhart Truth's stance on expanding the smoking ban, plus Elkhart City Council follies and a few choice recommendations.
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Tea Parties and more

In this, our first episode for some time, we talk about the recent anti-tax tea parties, the media, and a few news items. ...
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A special video message for Congressman Joe Donnelly

Video commentary on our Congressman, Representative Joe Donnelly, Indiana’s Second District.  Donnelly, like almost all the Democrats in the House, voted for the stimulus...
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Barack Obama-rama

In this episode, we talk about Obama’s recent big win, and there’s an interview with the director of Elkhart Civic Theatre’s current production. There’s...
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