A  friend of mine has gotten embroiled in a verbal sparring match over this issue of thanking GWB for setting us on the path out of Iraq and trying to force Dems to accept the blame for the war.

Now, she is perfectly capable of dealing with this… Read full post »

 

So, let me get this straight ...

You like your health insurance company so much, you'd rather pay more than twice as much per person than any other industrialized country for system that routinely fails nearly half of all Americans (well, the half of those not already on some sort…

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It's clear the events of the last 18 months have thoroughly discredited the "small government" approach. I'll grant that there is something particularly Jeffersonian about the concept ("the government that governs best governs least") but the common good simply is not served.

It's true, government can… Read full post »

For decades, manufacturing companies like Alcoa told us that their process was safe, that workers weren't at risk when they toiled on the potline or that the clothes they wore home -- laden with asbestos dust -- would not harm their families.

And, we trusted them. Right? Of course we did! This… Read full post »

The other night, my cousin and I talked about Tehran and Tiananmen and other instances of somewhat spontaneous displays of mass democratic thought. We talked about the governmental response.

Jon said he could understand the Chinese reaction and claimed it exhibited patience ... I countered that one… Read full post »

I was fiddling around last night and came up with this new banner. Like it?

I do and here's why. I really like this new banner because I almost made a it out of this shot instead.

I mean, I even cropped it down to the proper size,… Read full post »

Okay, I gotta say this. Just for the record.

The new Star Trek film rocks. Absolutely.

I say this as a true fan. Fanboy. What. Ever. I'm such a true fan I spent the better part of the summer of 1970 with my ears taped into points. My daughter is even more of… Read full post »

(This is a response to "Not Your Father's Star Trek")

 One of the things that made the original Star Trek television series  was its optimism. Remember, in the mid-to-late 1960s, we faced nuclear war — I remember living on the Texas Gulf Coast in the early 1960s thinking I could actua… Read full post »

 

 

My Dad drove a Chrysler whenever he could. He was also a Republican — and damned proud of it — back when it wasn't cool to be a Republican in Texas.

Those two character traits have left me with a certain cognitive dissonance. How would he have reacted to… Read full post »

... so why should we pay attention to them?

I've been looking for a copy of this column for some time. I ran across it while researching something completely unrelated. It was written, and originally published in the Taylor Daily Press (Taylor, Texas), in… Read full post »

For nearly six years, my friends and I were routinely denounced as unpatriotic because we disagreed with Pres. Bush over the conduct of war in Iraq.

We believed it was a mistake, that the idea of a pre-emptive invasion ran counter to the fundamental respect of national sovereignty and… Read full post »