November 11, 2011
Saluting the One Percent
Today is perhaps the most important day of the year to salute the one percent No, not all of those rich people that Occupy Wall Street gang hates so much. I am talking about the one-percent of the country who...
November 10, 2011
Optimists and Pessimists
Optimists make better Presidents. Pessimists tend to run into trouble if they get to the White House. Hermann Cain is an optimist. That is why he is doing so well in the polls. To have Herman Cain’s success in life,...
November 9, 2011
Braveheart
Before Mel Gibson went completely batty, he made “Braveheart”, an impressive and amazingly entertaining historical biopic of William Wallace. In the movie, Wallace is portrayed as a principled, patriotic and passionate believer in the cause of Scottish freedom. He was...
November 8, 2011
Rules Not People
Ohio will vote today on Proposition 2, a referendum on Governor John Kasich’s efforts to repeal collective bargaining for government employee unions in his state. By all accounts, the vote is not expected to turn out so well for the...
November 7, 2011
Profiles in Courage
In 1955, Jack Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for his book (co-written by his long-time speech writer Ted Sorenson) “Profiles in Courage.” Kennedy’s book spotlighted 8 U.S. Senators who fought conventional wisdom and party orthodoxy and suffered politically in the...
November 3, 2011
Stop the Circular Firing Squad
Ronald Reagan used to invoke the 11th Commandment to get Republicans to stop attacking one another. Those days are over. Republicans now seem to take special interest in whacking each other with extra vigor. The Herman Cain campaign has made...