Today’s FYI: One chapter ends and another begins – for President Obama and for America

  It sometimes seemed it would never happen, but it has. The 2012 presidential election is over. The robocalls have stopped. The ads are gone. There are no new polls for pundits to pick apart, no new stump speech sound bites to discuss, no advisers spinning data points. The people have spoken, and they have … Continue reading →

Leave it to the original ObamaCrat, Mr. J.B. himself, to come up with this excellent post about the fiscal cliff and what the hell’s going on with it. If you have any questions about this issue, this post will answer ’em.

Today’s FYI: Obama’s true legacy

  In the immediate aftermath of the election, many pundits began shaping a new political narrative: that these next four years will be the ones in which Barack Obama cements his presidential legacy. Several commentators and columnists have speculated on what we will remember most about Obama when his presidency ends – his election as … Continue reading →

Today’s FYI: Waiting to exhale

Well, my vote for President Barack Obama has been officially cast. I stood on line yesterday, encouraged by the fact that there were a good number of folks out waiting to vote on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Florida, instead of watching football (although I must admit I was keeping up with the games on … Continue reading →

Today’s FYI: There’s a lot going on today

Hi there, WordPress pals! I’m back from my travels, and trying to regain some balance after several days of not enough sleep, too much food, and general chaos. I am also finding that my WP stuff is acting up – my Reader is not showing me anything, so when I sat down to catch up … Continue reading →

Today’s WTF: The right gets their panties in a wad over the Million Muppet March

YET ANOTHER UPDATE (10/16): OK, it seems there may be some legal issue here…the page is now back on Facebook, but it is called the Million Puppet March. Must be some Muppet lawyers getting unnerved in some way…still not sure about the Twitter though…will see what I can find if I have time before my … Continue reading →

Today’s FYI: Yes, Joe Biden won last night, but it’s only halftime

Shhhh….hear that sound? It’s the sound of millions of Democrats exhaling all at once. I’m sure I don’t have to tell anyone here that Vice President Joe Biden got the job done in the VP debate last night – and then some. Paul Ryan was very disciplined, very even-keeled, and very well-prepared. But despite this, … Continue reading →

Originally posted on The Last Of The Millenniums:
Everybody has the right and actually should be open minded enough to change their mind – from time to time. But for someone running to be President of the United States, to ‘change’ their mind on almost a weekly basis on something so importantly fundemental as out…

An excellent post from Blog of Rivals, which lays it all out for the Democrats who have lost their damn minds over the past week. The whole post is terrific, but this part really nails it: “Angry liberals are demanding that the president be more like us, when really we should be more like him. … Continue reading →

Today’s WTF: The Benghazi incident – what went wrong, and what happens next

Over the past couple of days, I have spent a fair bit of time reading up on the investigation into the September 11th attack on the US Embassy in Benghazi. It is a very difficult situation to detangle, with a large cast of characters, conflicting information, and the added extra complication of partisan politics, which … Continue reading →