Science Czars & Healthcare; When Life is devalued…UPDATED

President Obama’s plans are to appoint 32 Czars within his administration. These are people about whom Congress does not advise or consent, and about whom the press is conveniently incurious. So far, the press thinks they’re all just brilliant and they have no problem with a president appointing 32 Czars accountable only to him. Whadda [...]

10 Questions WH Press Corps left unasked

From the Dept. of Everyday He Is On TV: Yesterday’s O-presser was a little interesting. The White House seems to be doing what I predicted the other day; they’re suggesting that the so-so Cairo speech was the impetus for the popular uprising in Iran. Funny how that worked out. When the president finally figured out [...]

Our freezing summer makes me gripe

It’s freezing here; we can’t swim, can’t have the windows open. Every day is cold. It just convinces me more than ever that solar flares (or the lack of them) have more to do with the ever-changing climate of planet earth. And more resentful of policies, programs and restrictions put in our way, in service [...]

Obama: the Opposite of America

I had this awful feeling, a few months into Obama’s presidency, that he had no wish to lead the nation, but to rule it. One of his minions (I can’t remember who, sorry) had actually used the phrase “when Obama rules” prior to his inauguration, but I’d excused it as a misspeak. Now, I am [...]

Miranda Rights for Terrorists & President Opposite

Over breakfast, my husband and I were discussing President Obama’s Cairo speech, wherein he lectured the West about the freedom of Muslim women to wear the hijab (Obama called it a hajib; is either correct?), but said nothing about Muslim nations giving them the freedom to not wear the covering, if they choose. “He speaks [...]

Fun Game, Oratory Page & other stuff

Fun Game: Google “Obama agrees with Bush on Plame” & count the news outlets covering it. ZERO. unless you’re looking at stuff from 2005, in which case you’ll find tons of articles from Time, Newsweek and the rest decrying the “outting” of a Langley desk jockey; another of those “great moral imperative” stories that seem, [...]

Prejean; cautionary tale for Christians – UPDATED

Good for her. In America, we should not be watching a person endure character assassination and the possible loss of livelihood because she has committed the sin of daring to hold a “politically incorrect” position. Carrie Prejean was asked a question and she answered it. In America, once upon a time, the people who referred [...]