Health Care Summit Highlights – First Hour

February 25, 2010
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Following opening statements the dust up began.  President Obama laid out the format for the meeting citing objectives for the day.  Lamar Alexander (R-TN) embarrassed those of us who live in Tennessee by misquoting the CBO numbers in his opening while taking a strictly partisan position. 
Not to pick on Lamar alone, Nancy Pelosi rambled and [...]

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“Bayh-Bayh” to Another Democratic Senator

February 16, 2010
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Who was Senator Evan Bayh listening to when he decided to leave the Senate?
Following Senator Evan Bayh’s announcement yesterday that he plans to retire from the Senate, most of us were knocked off our feet.  In fact, we are still on our knees.  He was one of our moderates, not that I always agreed with [...]

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Credit Card Reform and 79.9% Interest Rates

February 16, 2010

The average American family has five credit cards and just under $11,000 in credit card debt.  Our new credit card statements will be easier to read.  You will have 45 days notice if the rates change.  The credit card companies can raise our interest rates if we are 60 days late making our payments, but [...]

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F-Bomb, N-Word, and Now Another Hyphenated Politically Incorrect R-Word

February 7, 2010

Okay, so Rahm Emmanuel said “retarded” and all those parents, friends, and groups that support the …. R-word …. ah…  Well, that’s the problem.  I don’t know what is politically correct.  In fact, the politically correct language in America changes faster than Microsoft upgrades. 
No one can appreciate derogatory comments — except perhaps the person who [...]

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Oh, for God’s Sake! It Is A Holy War!

February 6, 2010
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Apparently, even if the U.S. government does not want our current engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan to be labeled a holy war, some of those they contract with could not resist the opportunity to spread the Word. 
In August of 2005 Trijicon was awarded a $660 million dollar, multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 of [...]

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Following the State of the Union Address and the Face to Face with Republican Representatives

January 31, 2010

Most of us have now had time to digest the State of the Union Address and have watched the Baltimore Belting between the President and the Republican Representatives from the House.  I thought the State of the Union was a nice laundry list, hopefully giving those who hide in the halls of the Capitol an [...]

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President Obama and the Republicans Face to Face in Baltimore

January 29, 2010

In a rare face to face meeting today in Baltimore, President Obama and representatives of the Republican party in the House asked and answered questions while occasionally lecturing one another, disputing one another, and sounding much like Parliament (for those who love those raucus meetings in the U.K.).
This is worth watching if you can make [...]

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