Nineteen of the thirty families requested absolutely no pictures of the returning soldiers killed recently in Afghanistan at Dover AFB.  The Pentagon, bucking the trend of allowing the media to have their way, absolutely forbid them to be there and to take pictures.  Instead, the White House decides to post a picture of Obama at… Continue reading

Well, since Obama is an academic, I can see where he gets his penchant for blaming everyone but himself for problems.  I was sent a file a couple of months ago and used it in a pretty important report.  Turns out that the file wasn’t actually the right one although it went out to quite… Continue reading

I’m not talking about Obamacare (which needs repealing too) but I’m talking about No Child Left Behind.  It was a stupid idea from the start–a federal government takeover of the United States’ public school systems (and yes, actually Bush the Younger’s fault).  And now, Arne Duncan, the former head of one of the most dysfunctional… Continue reading

When I was talking with my co-worker this morning, one thing that came out it as we were discussing ‘entitlements’ is that “Government does not pay for anything.”  Government takes our money and puts it in other places but every rule, every regulation, every law is paid for by the taxpaying American public.  Sometimes these… Continue reading

Had to burst someone’s bubble today at work who felt that Tea Party Republicans are essentially the devil (or to use Biden’s terminology, terrorists).  After about an hour of discussion about social programs and such, I was forced to tell her (along with fact that it was Tina Fey who had the “Russia from my… Continue reading

 This seems to be oddly appropriate considering the excuses brought out by the Whiner in Chief a.k.a. Captain No-Plan: Continue reading

Went to see West Side Story this week in Chicago (part of the Chicago on Broadway series).  Gotta say, I wasn’t impressed.  I have to admit that I’m a fan of the movie (and yes, I know that Natalie Wood did not sing) but I’ve seen my share of plays and I knew there would… Continue reading

Check out the article via Middle of the Right…. Continue reading

So when Moody’s and Standard and Poors lowers the United States’ credit rating anyway, who, outside of Congress (with the exception of Tom Coburn) (ht:  Middle of the Right) and the MSM will be surprised?  The credit rating downgrade was never about the debt ceiling, it is about the amount of money that the United… Continue reading

So, in the intersection of Suck and Ass, which is where academia meets the federal government, deadlines/crisis/panic/shady deals all crash together in the most epic of ways.  Having been caught in the microcosm of this chain of non-thought in the past two weeks, hence the uber-light blogging, I have come through it with a much… Continue reading