Isn’t Life Strange?

I know it is now considered blasphemy to call any Democrat, especially President Obama, a liar, but I just can’t let this one go. I’ll seek absolution later, if I must.
It seems President Obama was a little less than truthful when in his speech last week to a joint session of Congress, he told […]

I posted the following quote to my Facebook page yesterday:
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
- George Orwell

A friend responded with the question, “But Jeff, what is truth?”
This got me thinking about an appropriate response, and I wrote what I thought was an honest, detailed answer to her […]

I’m sure you’ve all had the opportunity to learn about the outburst by South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson during President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress last week.
The outburst certainly was a violation of the normal rules of conduct and decorum, written or unwritten. Wilson’s interruption was inappropriate. I believe it is […]

You know, I’m not much a fan of the American Civil Liberties Union, as I believe they too often cherry-pick their causes to fit an agenda that seems counter-intuitive to their name.
However I believe in giving credit when it is well deserved, and under the categories of “even a broken clock is right twice […]

For the past eight years I’ve been visiting one particular website for a good variety of political news and commentary. It’s a Conservative political discussion forum and the users there post news articles, or links to news stories, and engage in sometimes interesting discussions over the topics of the day. Because these stories are linked […]

I’m not going to make comparisons about Presidential first-pitch performances, but the video below tells the story of President Bush’s 2001 Game 3 World Series first pitch.
After everything that has transpired since then, everything that has been said in the media, all the accusations made, all the politics and the spin, the moment speaks […]

Hoo boy! It’s getting hot out there, and I’m not just talking about the weather here in sunny Houston.
Unless you’ve been trapped in a pit, or have been either intentionally or accidentally avoiding any and all news stories, you’ve probably heard about the recent flap over comments David Letterman made last week regarding Alaska […]

“You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down — up to a man’s age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law […]

Can you imagine the fake outrage from the left and the media if President Bush made such an insensitive remark? They’d be demanding apologies, holding special fact-finding commissions, and doing everything possible to see that this would be on the front page of every newspaper across the country for a week. Every media outlet […]

Several states have begun putting the federal government on notice about violations of sovereignty and increasing federal encroachment on the rights of the states.
The 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is one sentence: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, […]

Honestly - I have nothing against Roland Burris. He has served the state of Illinois for as long as I can remember, in a number of positions which include State Comptroller and Attorney General.
I wish I could say I’m surprised to learn that he was involved in “pay to play” negotiations with […]

With all the announcements of jobs being lost, companies scaling back operations, and some going out of business altogether, it seems to me that most people would be grateful simply to have a job at this time.
Never count out a union negotiation to throw a monkey-wrench into a machine (That would be our […]

In January of 1992 I was a teacher at my hometown junior high school. I remember stopping by the classroom of a science teacher who was watching the inauguration festivities of the new President, Bill Clinton. As clear as if it were yesterday, I remember saying to this teacher, “This is a great […]

Interesting article at Men’s News Daily today. It more or less addresses my belief that the government no longer works for us anymore, and neither the Democratic nor Republican party has the answers to the problems we face today.
Jesse Ventura, when he’s not talking about 9-11, makes a lot of […]

I was saving the epitaph for later but here it goes…
I willingly and happily supported George W. Bush in both the 2000 and 2004 elections. I still believe that he was the better of the choices in those elections although given the past four years I cannot see that he has done much if […]