I am not going to join the fracas over the passage of the health care bill. What needs to be said on both sides of the issue has already been said many times. My only comment is that this is why elections matter, and why we should never take lightly the commitments and promises made […]
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I agree
“To be honest,” the president said “I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize, men and women who’ve inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.”
Transparent logic
I have been paying a bit of attention to the efforts of the current administration to make the government more open and transparent. Particularly, today I spent a good bit of time on the USA Spending site. I was reading a review of the new IT spending section and decided to check it out. I […]
Will the real Obama Please Stand Up, Please Stand Up, Please Stand Up
Two article headlines in my iGoogle news ticker today caught my attention, not because of their content, but because of what seemed to be a direct contradiction by the current President. The first article’s headline read ‘Obama doesn’t enjoy ‘meddling in private sector’. You can read the article here. It’s sort of a funny headline […]
The First Dog stirs up hate and discontent
I was trolling the news sites tonight and happened upon this article from Reuters wherein the animal rights folks are upset because the Obamas decided to get their new pooch, Bo, from a breeder rather than go to a shelter. Only in the United States, where we are supposed to be in one of the […]