Politically Direct
Hillary Clinton wants to put a heath care chicken in every pot. You can buy it anywhere you want. It can be served in a variety of ways. Individuals with health problems and no health coverage (pre-existing conditions) will not be penalized with higher premiums. The best part of all, it will be affordable (virtually free).
All we have to do is repeal the Bush tax cuts.
Is that chicken frying, or do I smell a rat?
What is wrong with this picture? Continue reading “HillaryCare: It’s Baaack!”
Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign has progressed at a glacier-like pace.As the other candidates are hitting their stride, Fred is just climbing into the starting blocks. So, is he indecisive, lazy (as some have claimed) or smart like a fox?
Must he now run at breakneck speed to catch the front-runners at the finish line?
The answer should be obvious by now: Why run when you can cover more ground with a walk.
The real question in my mind is not whether the 65-year-old Thompson is capable of running, but why someone in his position would want to run. Continue reading “What Makes Fred Run?”
Mom’s apple pie is an important symbol of America.What is more American than mom’s apple pie? It’s the technology that made it possible for mom to make it and bake it with ease.
It’s not the apple pie that is in the gun sites of this Congress; it is the symbol of what has made America, America – good old American ingenuity. It is that ingenuity that made the United States an industrial world power. Continue reading “Congress attacks Mom’s Apple Pie”
The last thing we need is 535 ‘generals’ in Congress telling our troops how to win this fight. Sen. James Inhofe, R.-Okla.
Sen. John Warner’s call for a symbolic troop reduction in Iraq is an indication that perhaps we should consider a mandatory retirement age for members of Congress. Continue reading “Geriatric Generals”
For 15 years, I have stood up against the right-wing machine and I’ve come out stronger. So if you want a winner who knows how to take them on, I’m your girl.
She didn’t say that,
was my first reaction to the shocking line delivered by Hillary Rodham Clinton at the AFL-CIO Democratic Presidential Forum earlier this month. It was a poke in the eye to her Wellesley classmates and an insult to the feminist sisterhood with whom she has stood toe-to-toe since she shed her Goldwater Girl ideology back in the ’60s. Continue reading “Flash! Hillary’s a Girl”
For those wondering how Democrat leaders manage to keep straight faces when calling for a retreat in Iraq after the recent progress in the region, I offer Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin as “Exhibit 1.”In an appearance on “Meet the Press,” Feingold said he was “shocked” by the president’s response to the calls for a surrender – he calls it a withdrawal – “in light of the November election.” Continue reading “Shocked, not Awed”
My father-in-law, John Chastain, had the privilege of observing one of America’s greatest inventors. As a young man, he worked at a grocery store in Ft. Myers, Fla., where Thomas Edison had a winter home.Pop, as we affectionately called him, would tell us about seeing Edison in his twilight years going to and from his laboratory in the wee hours of the morning, as he made his way to the grocery store to sweep the floors and restock the shelves before customers arrived. Continue reading “Patently Offensive”
A dark cloud is behind every rainbow. Don’t enjoy flowers because they wither. If you get lemons, make sour water. Rich people are bad and must be punished. Smiling will make you sick. The U.S. isn’t strong enough to win a war against thugs and, by the way, Santa Claus is dead. Continue reading “A Dark Lining for every Silver Cloud”
I am disappointed that the Fourth of July week came and went without an announcement from Fred Thompson that he has, indeed, entered the race to become the next president. Fred’s still testing the water. In the Rasmussen poll, Fred already is leading the entire GOP field as an “unannounced” candidate.
Come on in, Fred! The water’s fine. If it gets much warmer, you are not going to be able to stand it. Continue reading “Come on in, Fred, The water’s fine”
Those hellbent on ramming a hugely unpopular amnesty bill down our throats have one question that stops most of their otherwise articulate constituents in their tracts:
And what would you do with the 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants now living in this country?
The image they want brought to mind is one of raids in the middle of the night – men and women driven from their homes at bayonet point, sleeping children snatched from their beds. Continue reading “What to do with 12-20 million Illegals”
Jane Chastain 