On Obama’s Speech Announcing the End of Combat Ops in Iraq

Well, that was an election year speech if I’ve ever heard one.

Speech Preparation

The Washington Times: Rep. Mike Pence: Give Credit Where Credit is Due Despite public opposition and criticism in the press, Republicans in Congress stood with our soldiers, again and again, supporting the surge and providing the resources they needed to complete the mission. House Democrats voted 11 times to implement artificial timetables and tried repeatedly [...]

Country Road, Take Me Home: Last of the Combat Troops Leave Iraq

I’ll never forget where I was when it began.  It was March 19, 2003.  I had only met Joanna–now my wife–that previous year, and I had just that week moved into a second-floor apartment in Drexel Hill, PA, about 30 minutes outside Philadelphia. It was unseasonably cold, and I was wearing layers while doing work [...]

Anybody Seen an Aircraft Carrier?

NewsBusters: ‘Recovery Summer’ vs. ‘Mission Accomplished’: Will MSM Immortalize Obama’s Laughable Proclamations? First, it should be noted that the “Mission Accomplished” meme, as trumpeted by the media since May, 2003, is largely a myth. Bush never delivered those words in the context portrayed by many media liberals. The phrase was never actually uttered on the [...]

Celebrating Presidential Birthdays

President Barack Obama’s birthday was on Wednesday, August 4. The day before, voters in Missouri dealt him and his administration a tough blow by repudiating the individual mandate so integral to the health care legislation passed months ago. Yet, almost as if taking their cue from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs–who stated that the [...]

D-Day: June 15, 2010

Once upon a time, in the early 1960′s, JFK’S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France when Charles de Gaulle decided to pull out of NATO. De Gaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible. Rusk responded: “Does that include those who are buried here? De Gaulle did not respond. After [...]

Rove and Miers — A Different Perspective

Former Bush administration senior adviser and political pundit extraordinaire Karl Rove has made it very clear in both his new book, Courage and Consequence, and in radio interviews that he believed that former White House Counsel Harriet Miers was an excellent choice as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Looking at her outstanding career [...]

Wait … Doesn’t The Other Guy Use a TelePrompTer?

I know it’s strange but, yes, that’s my left hand.  If you look closely, you’ll see a faded “INV” written in ink.  You would have seen the same three letters two weeks ago, and you’ll see them again two weeks from now. Those three letters, folks, is to remind me to send an invoice to [...]

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. President

I’ve been trying for a week now to rationalize what I heard coming from the president in his State of the Union address last week, but no matter how hard I try to make it come out as a sane recitation of the past and realistic forecast for the future of the United States, it [...]

A By-The-Numbers Look at Deficits and Debt by Party

According to the Congressional Budget Office, during the dozen years in which the House of Representatives was under Republican Party control, the average budget deficit was roughly $104 billion.  Since the Democrats assumed control following the mid-term elections in 2006, however, that average has skyrocketed to approximately $1.1 trillion. Now, confronted with reality and fact, [...]

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