On the Heels of Joe the Plumber
Here’s a letter I sent to The Oregonian yesterday:
Trying to convince an infatuated Obama supporter to vote for McCain is like trying to convince a twelve year old she isn’t really in love. So this is for depressed conservatives and the many undecided:
Vote.
Not long ago the headlines were all about four dollar gas. […]
Surrounded by Insanity
I always try to check myself when I’m thinking everyone around me is insane. Maybe I’m the insane one?
But…damn. There are the every day inconsequentials wherein, for instance, a friend - gay and pathologically liberal - tells me with a straight face and passionate conviction that he’s sure Sarah Palin wore her hair down in the […]
Saving the Credit Markets: Exempting the excise tax on wooden arrows.
A four page bailout bill becomes a four hundred page tome stuffed with fat, and it’s done to attract recalcitrant House members to vote for it. It passes the Senate, and the Dow is down 262 points as I write.
When members of congress wonder why 90% of the American public holds them in contempt: see […]
Palin, Rubes and the Rage of the Left
I ran into an acquaintance last week at church, an ex-Presbyterian pastor. There’s a bit of a difference in our ideology - if Eugene Debs or Noam Chomsky were running for president he’d campaign for them - but our banter is generally friendly as we tease each other about who’s had the latest letter published in The Oregonian. He said […]
……..PALIN!!!
Fearing that McCain would exercise his ‘maverick’ bona fides by selecting Joe Lieberman as his VP - as the media had insisted - I cheered when he instead picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. I’ve withheld comment since I didn’t know her any better than anyone, but since the left is desperately comparing the top of […]
……..Biden???
It’s been just over fortyeight hours, but it’s already a cliche: So much for change we can believe in.
1. Obama’s early primary force, especially among the young demographic, was the idolatry of those who desperately wanted to believe bumper sticker platitudes coming from the thoroughly charismatic and swaggering candidate. Youth want their own identity, their own separation […]
McCain will be president. He’s the NotObama.
In the buying and selling of almost anything - certainly homes or shoes - this adage applies: Given adequate function, the fastest selling or the highest volume will be not those that are the most attractive, but rather the least offensive. [Traditional floorplans with beige walls; plain toes in black or brown.]
And that’s how we’re […]
