Category Archives: Opinion
Reluctance
History proves that effective leaders display heartfelt reaction to atrocities and danger before, with cogent and well-planned strategy, they respond. With cerebral machinations and overused thesaurus does Obama react to ISIS inhumanity; he responds with visceral determination not to confront that growing evil. Through … Continue reading
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Tagged ISIS, leadership, obama, terrorism, weakness
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Fender Benders
IRS commissioner John Koskinen speaks in riddles and apparatchik gibberish. It’s as if the head of America’s most intrusive and belligerent agency landed his post from somewhere foreign to liberty and prosperity. Warren Sapp, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, seems … Continue reading
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Tagged alcee hastings, Democrats, lance armstrong, measles, NFL, obama, obamacare, open border
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Return to the Road To Ruin
It would usher in doomsday, hoped Obama. But for two years America has survived the federal sequester, that irrational mandate for arbitrary spending cuts that was devised to inflict intolerable inconvenience on the citizenry. Layoffs and loss of critical services, the … Continue reading
Demolition Days Are Here Again
Romney’s shed his goggles and left his helmet swinging from a hook in the garage–never again, alleges the former governor, is he willing to get behind the wheel in a presidential race. But the GOP primary isn’t so much race as demolition … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016 election, GOP, Hillary, Romney
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Sunglass Nation
John F. Kennedy sported Wayfarers, his appearance urbane and manly behind those dark lenses. It’s a look the whole nation might adopt because, now that hope and change has proven itself detrimental, which American wants to show his eyes anymore? Certainly not the … Continue reading
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Tagged America's decline, JFK, leadership, obama, obamacare, weakness
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Adios, San Juan
Cuban strong man Raul Castro knows advantage when he sees it and, with President Obama begging to normalize relations with the Caribbean dictatorship, Castro has grown determined to squeeze every drop out of Uncle Sam. America, until recently, rebuked Cuba with the noble insistence that … Continue reading
While Obama Golfs ….
Somber reflection accompanied Holocaust survivors visiting Auschwitz. Again their eyes took in railroad tracks once laden with human-filled cattle cars. They overcame trepidation to once more trudge through the iron gate heralding Arbeit Macht Frei–Work Sets You Free. But it was not … Continue reading
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Tagged Holocaust, Israel, leadership, obama, terrorism, weakness
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He’s Melting
The echoes of Paris violence still reverberate and again Muslim belligerents have murdered, this time in a sun-baked hotel on Tripoli’s coast. They’ve brought terror to Fort Hood, too, and the Boston Marathon, Madrid’s subway, a chocolate shop in Sydney, London streets: no corner … Continue reading
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Tagged leading from behind, obama, retreat, terrorism, weakness
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Uncle Sam’s Sensitive Senate
With the irresponsibility of a bored student dozing through an insightful lecture, the Senate of the United States last week squandered effort by debating earth’s climate. Senators took it upon themselves to neglect how our nation is crying out for a … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, global warming, science, Senate, truth
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That Inconvenient Truth
The overwhelming majority of Muslims, lectured Secretary of State John Kerry, do not condone the sort of violence perpetrated by a few. His rapt audience in Davos thrived on Kerry’s faux-sagacity. As had a previous droning speaker, former Vice President Al Gore, Kerry’s … Continue reading
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Tagged courage, john kerry, progressives, terrorism
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Watching A Wreck 