September 12, 2010

Bring back the manned space program

President Obama should bring back the manned space program. He cancelled the Constellation program which was destined to return the US to the moon, while maintaining a low orbit manned capability. It is time to reverse this policy. If there is one th...

September 8, 2010

New rock anthem same as the old rock anthem

"There's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear" : so begins the Buffalo Springfield hit from the 1960's "For what it's Worth." The song became an anthem for a generation accustomed to protest, including the Viet...

September 7, 2010

A Nobel Prize winning idea

I know nothing of economics, can't even balance my own checkbook. But for what I am about to propose , consideration for the Nobel Prize should not be out of the question. Think about it. Paul Krugman won. His contribution to the field , as far as ...

September 4, 2010

For Democrats, the proof is in the telling, not the pudding

Governor Jan Brewer had an awful debate in Arizona the other night. She was tongue-tied for sixteen seconds, in an otherwise lackluster performance. She has enough support in the State to get over this stumble because the people of the State admire h...

August 31, 2010

Joe Klein, Chris Matthews, and their feet of clay

There was a great bit of TV this weekend, separate from Glenn Beck's wonderful rally. It was on Chris Matthews' show where a panel addressed Beck and his rally. In addition to Matthews, there was Joe Klein, along with the normal cast of characters --...

August 29, 2010

On becoming a 'twitphobe'

Yesterday, Clarice Feldman detailed how the word "oikophobia", shortened to "oiks", is the term most suited to describe liberal elites who hold the rest of us in intellectual and cultural contempt. These people are offended by ...

August 23, 2010

Lenin's 'useful idiots' in the mosque debate

Lenin's concept of the "useful idiot" is alive and well in the current mosque debate. By such a description he means the members of a (western) society who allow themselves to be naively manipulated to work against the best interest of th...

August 22, 2010

The myth of 'collective salvation'

President Obama has made no secret of his belief in "collective salvation"; the religious belief that one cannot achieve salvation by himself, unless he is also concerned for the the salvation of his neighbors, and society as a whole. By sa...

August 13, 2010

Suggestion for keynote speaker at 2012 Democratic convention

Our media has done its best to hide the political affiliation of the public employees of Bell California-one of the State's poorest communities,while at the same time having its highest paid "public servants". Robert Rizzo, the city manager...

August 7, 2010

The mosque decision is not New York's alone

In our small town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, on September 11, people stood in line for hours waiting to donate blood; a scene played out all over the country. Money was donated, churches packed, prayer groups formed, and men and women rushe...