Rhetorical Outbursts

As a self-proclaimed fiscal conservative, I would like to make a quick comment on President Bush’s choice to replace outgoing Chief of Staff Andrew Card with current Office of Management and Budget Director Joshua Bolten: Is this a joke?

Joshua Bolten has overseen fiscal irresponsibility of the highest order during his three year tenure at […]

I don’t know which is more depressing — this story or these comments about the story. It should be obvious that we don’t know enough yet to make any kind of judgement about what larger implications, if any, to draw from these events:

A community shocked by the slaying of a charismatic, popular […]

ABC news is reporting today that Iraq had “details of a U.S. plan for war” in the days before the coalition invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

The information relayed to Baghdad is summarized in two documents, and summarizes information provided to Saddam’s Iraq by Russian Ambassador Vladimir Teterenko. The first is dated […]

“It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scriptures because this bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself.” — Hillary Clinton

What is she talking about? The House version of the immigration reform bill, which would make unlawful presence in the U.S. a felony.

That’s funny. […]

When are people going to acknowledge that where there is smoke, it makes sense to look for fire? Newly released documents, detailed by ABC News, show that there were, at a minimum, discussions of an operational relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda. One report indicated that “official representative of Saddam Hussein’s government met […]

So far, 347 coalition forces, including 278 Americans, have died to liberate Afghanistan from the oppressive Taliban regime. President Hamid Karzai, the first democratically elected leader of Afghanistan, has been an honored guest speaker before a Joint Session of Congress. He was awarded the Philadelphia Liberty Medal and has been named an honorary […]

Hanging out in homeschooling forums can sometimes cause you to run across links completely unrelated to homeschooling, but laugh out loud funny. Mrs. Extremist ran across this link recently. At first glance, I couldn’t figure out why she sent me something about old Weight Watchers recipe cards. If you take the […]