Nice overview!
2009: An ‘extraordinary’ year in politics - TheHill.com
Sunday, January 3, 2010
2010 Blog Resolutions
Welcome 2010!!!! I have a feeling this will be a great year!
A few resolutions for this blog in the new year...
-First and foremost: I will post more content. My goal is to have 2-3 posts each week at a minimum....so please try to keep me accountable to that!
-Along that same note, if any reader has a particular issue or concern they would like me to rant, inform or just discuss in general, please feel free to make requests
-With the 2010 elections coming up, I would LOVE to be able to highlight one candidate each week. If you are a candidate in a NATIONAL race anywhere across the country and would like a chance to speak your mind on the issues...I'm your girl
-In a similar vain, if you are representing an issue that you would like highlighted or detailed...contact me as well, I'd be more than happy to look into the issue and give a summary
WARNING: This does not mean that I will not include my own commentary or feelings on your candidacy/issue. You will be able to have a forum to speak your mind and promote yourself (issue), but I will give my thoughts at the end.
Ok, that is it for now. Happy New Year everyone...lets make it a great one!
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The Ridiculous, Irresponsible and Frightening!
The ridiculous: President Obama flying to Copenhagen to discuss global warming and climate change in the middle of a HUGE blizzard
The irresponsible: Sen. Ben Nelson.....'nuff said
The frightening: Al Franken is actually in the Senate...and allowed to talk
Honestly, the events of this week are so astronomically catastrophic that the above comments are all I can safely muster without Xanax close at hand
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Climate Change-apalooza
I will be the first to admit that when it comes to environmental issues, I stand a little bit to the left of many Conservatives on the issue. Although, I'm not out chaining myself to trees, I do believe that protecting the environment, cutting needless waste and pollution and, in general, encouraging the development of more green spaces is beneficial for everyone (see my previous blog "The Real Socioeconomic Gap in Healthcare". However....as well known to many readers, the current climate farce (along with the ridiculously hypocritical Copenhagen summit) is more focused on
a) gaining political points
b) creation of a worldwide system of regulation to puts business under government control and transfers wealth from rich nations to poor ones.
than it is actually benefitting the environment.
As Dick Morris terrifically pointed out in a recent Op-ed on the issue:
"The worst nightmare of the left is about to come true: The United States is about to achieve the carbon emissions goals set by the 1997 Kyoto Accords. Once seemingly beyond reach, the United States is already halfway toward meeting the stringent Kyoto goals for reduction in carbon emissions without a cap-and-trade law or a carbon tax or carbon dioxide being declared a pollutant...............................Should the emissions come down on their own, as they are doing, the excuse for draconian legislation goes, well, up in smoke."
The rest of the article can be found HERE, a must read to put climate change, emissions regulation and where the U.S. stands as a polluter, in perspective.
A similar economic coup was attempted during the 1970's with the The New International Economic Order (NIEO). This was a set of proposals put forth by developing countries to promote their interests by improving their terms of trade, increasing development assistance, developed-country tariff reductions, and other means. It was meant to be a revision of the international economic system in favour of Third World countries--- basically wealth redistribution via global socialism.
Luckily these aims went no where, thanks mainly to Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, both of whom refused to let the world cadre of entitlement advocating whiners walk all over the United States and take away the rights of hard working citizens.
Unfortunately the attack on democracy has risen once again, this time attaching itself to the fad of environmentalism and climate change. And frighteningly, this time our political leaders are submitting to their whines, much like an embarrassed parent trying to subdued a child having a temper tantrum in a public place.
Environmentalism is essentially becoming a new form of socialism.
On the first day of Copenhagen opened, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claimed jurisdiction over the regulation of carbon emissions by declaring them an "endangerment" to human health. Due to the fact that we operate in a carbon-based economy, this declaration will give the EPA unprecedented regulation power. Any institution that emits more than 250 tons of CO2 a year will be under EPA control.
According to Charles Krauthammer, not since the creation of the Internal Revenue Service has a federal agency been given more power over every aspect of economic life.
Frightening to say the least. The Obama administration is determined to turn the United States into a socialist nation and is mounting the war on multiple fronts...environmentalism, healthcare, economic regulations.....
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
In Search of an Icon
As I watched Tim Tebow respond to reporters questions with ultimate class and sincerity after losing the SEC Championship to Alabama...I'm reminded of the deep human need to have a hero. I'm not a Florida fan, in any manner, Tebow is a good player and I appreciate his morals, however I have never understood the Tebow love shown by both fans and commentators. Tonight...for the first time I did.
It is human nature to always look for a hero. Sort of like how as children we would play with action figures, or dress up like super heros for halloween. We crave an idol, perhaps it gives us a sense of security, perhaps it gives us hope, perhaps it simply helps us believe that anything is possible. In this often dark world we live in, we need a Hercules to lift us up.
Unfortunately it seems the human idols of our world are slowly disappearing. Some may think this is a positive, since in this world of the 24 hour news cycle, everyone and everything is exposed. Perhaps. Perhaps it is a plus that people can't hide behind facades anymore and are eventually shown to be what they are, imperfect, flawed, human. But in reality what do we, as a struggling civilization, need the most...to know that Tiger Woods had affairs with numerous woman, or to be able to see him as a sort of super hero of our time. What helps us more? The truth or the hope? It is a hard line to draw.
Tebow is as loved as he is because he still maintains an aura of goodness around him. He is skilled, gracious and morally grounded....or at least that is what it seems for now. I hope he is able to maintain his stellar reputation, I hope more like him are able to rise up.
Humans need a hero. Each time one falls, so does our own sense of possibility and value.
“We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look. ”
- Ronald Reagan
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Military vs. Civilian Trails Revisited
Very interesting document put together by Congressional Research Service. Very much clears up the distinctions and rights afforded to defendants in each one.
PDF document found HERE
(Courtesy of Secrecy News, a publication of the Federation of American Scientists, a great resource for intelligence and security news)
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