Posts Tagged ‘Politics’

On June 1, 1950, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R- Maine) delivered the famous Declaration of Conscience speech on the floor of the Senate. In it, she declared that she didn’t want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny — Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear. I think it [...]

I’m a little late with this commentary, but there are so many issues that have been brought forth with the nomination of Sarah Palin as the vice presidential candidate of John McCain that perhaps you will excuse me. As McCain’s campaign has descended into the pit of divisiveness, hate-mongering, and lies, I find myself fascinated [...]

John McCain and Sarah Palin style themselves as “mavericks” – I thought you would like to know more about how the word came to be. Then, you can decide if McCain and Palin are mavericks or if they are something else. This article was published in the New York Times on October 4, 2008: Who [...]

“Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.” – Adolf Hitler If you substitute the word “Liberal” for “Jew” does that help you to understand Sarah Palin and her followers?

While taking a break from work today, I watched the TV in the lounge. Sarah Palin was on the screen, launching into a speech about Barack Obama’s association with William Ayers. Behind her, hundreds of young women were applauding vigorously. Barack Obama was 8 years old and attending school in Jakarta, Indonesia when William Ayers, [...]

I found the following wisdom in the March, 2007 issue of Prospect magazine. The essay is by Rudi Bogni: Left vs Right was and is purely a nominal distinction between two strands of the same totalitarian posture. The real problem of the 20th century was that the demographic and economic pressures that fractured the empires [...]

Lost in the hysteria over the financial turmoil and the proposed $700 billion bailout (which went down in flames today) is the fact that the House of Representatives just passed a $612 billion “defense authorization” bill for 2009. I haven’t heard a peep of protest about *that*. Oh, I forgot … that’s because we are [...]

According to the polls that I’ve read, McCain came off in the debate last night as not scoring the home run on foreign policy that he needed to score. Obama appeared to stand his ground, which is all that he needed to do. The next two debates will be on topics that favor Obama, not [...]

I received an e-mail as a “reply-all” from a person who has been described to me as a very nice, decent person. I’ll let you make up your minds, but I will also insert into the narrative my rejoinders. “I can’t believe that any American could honestly endorse this blatant Socialist [Obama]. When he raises [...]

Let’s see ….. the reaction to Ms. Palin’s comments about the fungibility of oil has me curious. First, the quote: “Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you know, the molecules, where it’s going and where it’s not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, [...]