Nightmares before Christmas December 22, 2020 I turned in a column to the Reader back to back one week following the next. It was modest and a bit of a… Continue Reading
Good Riddance to Lake Calhoun August 19, 2019 Minneapolitians were divided about the renaming of long-standing Lake Calhoun into Bde Maka Ska. I doubt that many Minnesotans even knew who John C…. Continue Reading
Pickle relish and ketchup on my Deep State, Please? July 12, 2017 Mother nature woke me at 4AM. The “Deep State” prevented me from going back into a deep sleep. Before I launch into my thoughts… Continue Reading
Condescension in politics May 28, 2017 I’ve mentioned to others that Hillary Clinton’s “deporables” comment was a catastrophic mistake. The great irony of the Trump election is that blue collar… Continue Reading
Dish washing brings second thoughts on the funny thing March 23, 2017 There is one other possibility regarding Trump’s ultimatum to House Republicans that I ruled out a little too quickly. I thought that the Tea… Continue Reading
On the day that President Trump will give his first speech to Congress… February 28, 2017 … I was fixing old posts. One of them was this short post from JANUARY 23, 2012. Richard Nixon’s simple explanation for why America… Continue Reading
Moderation = Conservatism October 26, 2012 Amen, David Brooks: First, let me describe what moderation is not. It is not just finding the midpoint between two opposing poles and opportunistically… Continue Reading
The only way a Republican can argue for a tax increase… August 22, 2012 …is to spend the money preparing to fight Obama’s United Nation’s mercenaries when they come to take over America. Here’s what you just heard… Continue Reading
More on that “tepid criticism” post November 21, 2011 My Buddy didn’t like my take on the OWS critic. Just in case my other readers want a little more elaboration on my part… Continue Reading
Better than pepper spray November 20, 2011 I have no gripes about various city governments trying to gently push Occupy Whatever out of inconvenient locales. I think that Duluth has done… Continue Reading
Income tax history lesson September 27, 2011 Damn RINO’s: The income tax was dead. But the pressure to tax the incomes of the largely untaxed rich only increased, especially as the… Continue Reading
Democrats want to tax the rich August 15, 2011 Rick Perry wants to tax the poor: “We’re dismayed at the injustice that nearly half of all Americans don’t even pay any income tax.”… Continue Reading
Comparing Obama with FDR August 9, 2011 Here’s a sample of an interesting analysis: Obama took office at the cusp of a massive worldwide financial crisis that was bound to inflict… Continue Reading
Hell freezes over July 28, 2011 No not really. It will take the Democrats and the Republicans working out a sensible federal spending/taxing plan for that to happen. My buddy… Continue Reading
Obama’s “waiting at the altar”… July 23, 2011 …with the best deficit fighting proposal any President, GOP or DEM has offered in our lifetime and the GOP puts it in their latrine… Continue Reading
I don’t know who Gideon is… July 20, 2011 …but he’s spot on. Here’s a quote I found in the Daily Dish just now: “The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the… Continue Reading
From the Horse’s Mouth July 1, 2011 “This is the dumbest damn show on air.” Glenn Beck on his last day on network television; A montage of the June 30th show. Continue Reading
You can’t trust the Wall Street Journal… May 12, 2011 …since Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News, bought it: The Obama bashing post from me a little earlier today was based on the WSJ’s… Continue Reading
Where our deficits come from May 11, 2011 The Hoosierpundit site , linked to in the previous post, ends with a graph showing how, under Obama, the federal deficit has trippled over… Continue Reading
Find out what Grant drinks and send it to my other commanders February 16, 2011 My gadfly critic, Vic, thinks Blogger Andrew Sullivan is “tendentious.” Here’s my reply to an email Vic sent me this morning in which one… Continue Reading
