Archive for January, 2009

Bruce Springsteen’s Big Mistake

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Sometimes big media reporters don’t even try to hide their liberal bias. Consider this report yesterday:
01/30/2009 7:00 PM, AP
The Associated Press
The Boss is owning up to a mistake.
In an interview with The New York Times, Bruce Springsteen says he shouldn’t have made a deal with Wal-Mart. This month, the store started exclusively selling a [...]

Bush Back in Texas

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

In parts of New York or California, George Bush would never get a reception like this. I say welcome home George Bush. He doesn’t live far away from me. Maybe I will see him somewhere. Cool by me.
(With concerns being raised about the Democrats trying to ram through permanent new liberal programs stealthily buried in [...]

Kirsten Gillibrand Opposes Easy Illegal Immigration

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

What have the Democrats done? They accidently accepted a new Democratic Senator, Kirsten Gillibrand, who thinks rationally on immigration:
Ms. Gillibrand, a Democrat, opposed any sort of amnesty for illegal immigrants, supported deputizing local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws, spoke out against Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s proposal to allow illegal immigrants to have driver’s [...]

A Concern About Hillary Clinton’s Judgment

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Hillary Clinton might make a fine Secretary of State. For the sake of the country, I certainly hope that she does. However, in the world of political leaders, a leader’s past judgments are often a good guide to his or her future performance. Consider the following that I quoted at NoSpeedBumps in Feb, 2007 just [...]

Sarah Palin to Get Rich … but She Is Still No Margaret Thatcher

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

I wrote here:
Consider that Hillary Clinton in 2001 was paid $8 million by Simon & Schuster to write a book. Sarah Palin, it seems to me, could reach a much bigger audience with her everywoman appeal. … Perhaps Sarah Palin will get a $15 million advance to write a book.
The word is that she is [...]

President Barack Obama Steps Forward

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

I just watched Obama’s full inauguration speech. I thought he did a magnificent job. I watched him on TV tonight some too, like at the opening of the Commander-in-Chief Ball when he talked with some US troops in Afghanistan via a video feed. Obama is a pretty cool guy.
I hope that he governs from [...]

Base Jumping is Awesome

Saturday, January 17th, 2009

I wrote here about skiing off of cliffs over the Christmas holiday. So while in Scandinavia this week I decided to fit in some base jumping. Really, would I make this up? I can fly, just watch.

Something Rotten in the State of Denmark

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

I am in Copenhagen, Denmark today. This is a fine country. But at dinner tonight with a Danish acquaintance from a company that I am visiting I learned that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. And that is: high taxes.
My Danish acquaintance at dinner, an engineer at a major European electronics company, [...]

Iraq War: Looking Back in 20 Years

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

With George Bush ready to leave office, you hear people commenting on his accomplishments (or lack of). One thing you hear a lot is that he took us into a meaningless war. Since our military found no WMDs, the main argument that the Bush administration put forth to justify the war, many people have died [...]

Texas Rabbits

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Texas is cowboy country. Even our rabbits don’t put up with much (via Maggie’s Farm).

A Quick Check of Humanity’s Mortality Rate

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Richard John Neuhaus wrote:
“Death is to be warded off by exercise, by healthy habits, by medical advances. What cannot be halted can be delayed, and what cannot forever be delayed can be denied. But all our progress and all our protest notwithstanding, the mortality rate holds steady at 100 percent.”