Why Is This Senator Voting "No"?

Arnold’s “Budget Cut” Package More Democrat Sleight of Hand

Obama’s Political Primordial Soup

I don’t want ‘em in my tent
The continuing GOP identity crisis Crisis? No crisis with me. A strong “conservative thinker”, James Carville, recently quipped; “I have an announcement to make. Ronald Reagan’s big tent just collapsed in Upstate New York. It no longer exists,” Democratic strategist James Carville said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” This he said following Dede Scozzafava pulling the ripcord on her campaign parachute, but I suppose prior to her proving him once again

The Real Guantanamo Bay
Much has been said over the last several years about a formerly unknown US Naval base stubbornly clinging to the southeastern end of Cuba. Despite years of Fidel Castro’s chagrin, US forces have been there by treaty since 1903 and remain there to this day. The official US Navy history begins this way, with my link

How many killed at Ft. Hood?
As yet, even on Fox, it goes uncorrected I remember the first time I saw my youngest daughter. It was via ultrasound on a TV monitor as my wife’s doctor moved the unit over her belly. The doctor paused over her head, and with the mouse added a smiley face and a “Hello Mommy” text balloon. We had a video tape in the machine, so our first home movies of our youngest were when she was right around 9 weeks from conception. She was alive, a tiny person moving around in the womb of her mother. 9 weeks. A baby boy was similarly 9 weeks in his mother’s womb when his life was taken, along with his

Happy Veterans Day
From a (mostly) grateful nation h/t stixblog for the video find. To those who came before me, thank you. To those following, carry on.

November 9, 1989 Twenty Years Ago and it still brings a tear
I never thought I’d see the day in my lifetime To me, East Germany was just a nation behind the Iron Curtain that would always be walled off. Ronald Reagan saw differently; Arriving in Berlin on June 12, 1987, President and Mrs. Reagan were taken to the Reichstag, where they viewed the wall from a balcony. Reagan then made his speech at the Brandenburg Gate at 2 PM, in front of two panes of bulletproof glass protecting him from potential snipers in East Berlin. About 45,000 people were in attendance; among the spectators were West German president Ri