
Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009
We are incessantly being told that the cost of medical care is "too high" - either absolutely or as a growing percentage of our incomes. But nothing that is being proposed by the government is likely to lower those costs, and much that is being proposed is almost certain to increase the costs.
That is the question
Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009
To sue or not to sue? After racist statements were made up out of thin air and then attributed to Rush Limbaugh, these were the options he had.
And other random thoughts on the passing scene
Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009
Upon learning that the Constitution requires a president to be a natural born citizen, a college student said: "What makes a natural born citizen any more qualified than one born by C-section?"
Obama is living in fantasy land
Saturday, Sept. 19, 2009
Many years ago, as a small child, I was told one of those old-fashioned fables for children. It was about a dog with a bone in his mouth who was walking on a log across a stream.
A death panel by any other name is still a death panel
Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009
There was a time when rushing a thousand-page bill through Congress so fast that no one has time to read it would have provoked public outrage. But now, this has been attempted twice in the first six months of a new administration.
Another reversal for nominee Sotomayor
Saturday, July 4, 2009
For the fourth time in six cases, the Supreme Court of the United States has reversed a decision for which Judge Sonia Sotomayor voted on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. If this nominee were a white male, would this not raise questions about whether he should be elevated to a court that has found his previous decisions wrong two-thirds of the times when those decisions have been reviewed?
Saturday, June 6, 2009
As the mainstream media circles the wagons around Judge Sonia Sotomayor, to protect her from the consequences of her own words and deeds, its main arguments are distractions from the issue at hand.
Sotomayor's 'out of context' racial remarks
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
In Washington, the clearer a statement, the more certain it is to be followed by a "clarification" when people realize what was said.
On the passing scene ...
Saturday, May 30, 2009
They say people mellow with age. However, the older I get, the less patience I have with cleverness.
Please interpret the laws, not your emotions
Friday, May 29, 2009
It is one of the signs of our times that so many in the media are focusing on the life story of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court.