Archive for July, 2006
A note from Linda Olmert
31 July 2006I am posting a copy of an email I received from Linda Olmert this morning. Linda is the sister in law of Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert. I asked for her permission to post her email here and she has graciously agreed. Dear Friends: I have not written in the last weeks. So many words [...]
A Living Wage
28 July 2006Once again Congress is making noises about raising the minimum wage. And along with that effort comes much demagoguery. So for the record, let’s discuss for a moment who really works at minimum wages jobs and what a minimum wage really means for low income workers.Democrats would have us believe that America’s poor are forced [...]
The High Cost of Freedom
27 July 2006Thomas Jefferson said, “”The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Jefferson understood what many Americans and most of the rest of the western world have forgotten or never knew: Freedom is not free. New York Post columnist John Podhoretz had an excellent piece on [...]
A Demagogue by Any Other Name
21 July 2006If you’ve read my profile you know I was a political science major in college. I took intro to poli-sci as a freshman and in that class we had a discussion about the different types of politicians. One of the types we discussed was the demagogue. As part of our homework assignment we had to [...]
Fetal Stem Cell Research
18 July 2006Congress is set to pass, and President Bush is threatening to veto, H.R. 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, which “…sanctions federal funding of research involving embryonic stem cells “harvested” from embryos stored in in-vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics.” Well meaning individuals on both sides of the aisle are denouncing the president for [...]
A Proportional Response?
17 July 2006Much has been said over the last few days about the need for Israel to have a proportional response to Hezbollah. It is said that they are overreacting by going into Lebanon and destroying civilian infrastructure. It is further claimed that doing this is creating the next generation of enemies for Israel. Indeed, the Vatican [...]
Response & Diplomacy
16 July 2006Two refrains echo repeatedly in the news today. The first is the “failure of diplomacy.” The clear implication is, if only the Bush administration had a clue when it comes to diplomacy the Middle East wouldn’t be in a war today. Senator Chris Dodd was busy slamming the Bush administration for its failure of diplomacy [...]
Peace for the Middle East?
13 July 2006You’d have to be living in a cave somewhere to miss that Israel is at war. After years of tolerating terrorist attacks, negotiating with kidnappers and appeasing the rest of the world, it appears Israel has had enough. But over at Daily Kos another idea has been floated: Muslims, Jews, and Christians could live in [...]
Frisch Fried
11 July 2006Being new to the blogosphere I thought it a good idea to spend some quality time on some other conservative blogs. I could get a sense of what others are doing, perhaps get some advise on issues like platform, comments, trackbacks, etc. and generally improve my ability to pursue blogging. I was not, however, prepared [...]
Drugs and Gas
10 July 2006I’m something of a talk radio junkie so, as is typical for me, I was listening to a local talk show on my way to work this morning. The talking head was pontificating about the price of gas reaching a $3.00/gallon national average. So, just to keep his listeners on their collective toes, he compared [...]
