Posted in Politics on Apr 21st, 2010 No Comments »
A conservative friend sent me a news article today which I found intriguing because it serves as a perfect microcosm of how regulated so many issues in our lives are today and all the people who are involved in such issues. For me, this news article would be perfect for instructing students on the forces driving [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 18th, 2010 No Comments »
It has been a huge injustice to me that so many believe our CIA agents engaged in torture of captured al-Qaeda terrorists. People imagine our agents acted somewhat like the fictional agent Jack Bauer of the series “24″. But that is far from the truth. In contrast, we should be quite proud of what our agents [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 16th, 2010 No Comments »
I’m on a email list where a center-left pastor made this comment:
I was taken “shooting” on Christmas with some [Christian] gun enthusiasts at their club, and all they could talk about was how Obama was regulating them and how the costs had gone up for their ammunition. I doubt if Obama has spent one minute [...]
Posted in Politics on Dec 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
I have followed global warming for some time now but was surprised recently to discover just how ignorant I have been. I have read excellent articles on the subject from world renown scientists (like this article by Richard Lindzen), but somehow they have missed key information I was unaware of until I watched this video by [...]
Posted in Politics on Aug 29th, 2009 No Comments »
This is a copy of the letter I sent my two senators from Arizona this week:
Dear Seantor McCain,
I’m a conservative Arizonan, but I haven’t been too happy with the Republican proposals I’ve seen for health-care reform, especially when it comes to pre-existing conditions. So how about a real compromise?
Why not give Democrats single-payer universal coverage [...]
Posted in Politics on May 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
I saw an interesting video on YouTube regarding Global Warming called, How It All Ends. The science teacher who created these videos suggests we look at GW from the angle of risk management and proceeds to break the problem up into four possibilities. He creates a chart with two rows and two columns. The two [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 24th, 2009 No Comments »
I’m a conservative who is not altogether thrilled that Obama is our new president. However, it is apparent to me that many on the conservative side simply don’t understand just how ambitious president Obama is or where he is trying to take us.
This became obvious on reading a recent column (see here) on Obama’s inaugural [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Just before Christmas, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote a column entitled, Bleeding Heart TightWads, where he cited research showing that while “liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for generous government spending to help the neediest…, yet when it comes to individual contributions to charitable causes, liberals are cheapskates”. Kristof berated his fellow liberals [...]
Posted in Politics on Mar 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Peggy Noonan’s column today in the Wall Street Journal is about Hillary’s “Bosnia” story, but it struck me more as the marking point of the end of her campaign. Hilary has lost to Obama. The Rev. Wright story didn’t turn the tide and now even her supporters are realizing that her [...]
Posted in Politics on Mar 18th, 2008 No Comments »
There has been a big to-do over what former vice-presidential candidate and Hillary Clinton supporter, Geraldine Ferraro said recently about Barack Obama. Here’s the way the Wall Street Journal put it (see here):
In recent days, the Obama camp has been demanding an apology from Geraldine Ferraro, the former Vice Presidential candidate and current Hillary Clinton [...]
Posted in Politics on Mar 14th, 2008 No Comments »
The exceptional military historian Victor Davis Hanson has written an excellent column today in National Review that parallels some of what I wrote yesterday on Iraq — albeit with much nicer prose.
Here is an excerpt from: Mirror, Mirror… Looking at Iraq
What is never discussed is how many Islamists flocked to Iraq, determined to defeat the [...]
Posted in Politics on Mar 13th, 2008 No Comments »
One of the reasons I named my blog “RealClearTruth” is because I have a strong desire to make complex issues clear, to dig down to the essential elements in order to bring clarity and make it easier to determine what should be done. In this regard, I have not been satisfied with any of the [...]
Posted in Politics on Feb 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Even though I am a conservative, I happen to like Obama’s message of optimism, hope and working together to solve our problems. Given that I view him the likely winner in the general election in November, I certainly hope that he will hold to his pledge of reaching across the isle to work with conservatives.
Even [...]
Posted in Politics on Feb 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Of the 14.6 million votes cast on the Democratic side of yesterday’s super Tuesday primary, Hillary only won by 53,000 votes, or by only 0.36% (i.e., less than half a percent). Obama is said to have picked up more delegates, but the actual number is not clear yet, perhaps 5 to 14 delegates out of [...]
Posted in Politics on Feb 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Well Super-Tuesday is coming up very shortly and on the Republican side it looks like McCain will do very well. Romney has hopes of eventually winning some mostly small Western states, and Huckabee may win some of the Southern states, but neither look like they have any chance of stopping McCain.
The thing that is clear [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Jay Nordlinger of National Review has been journaling from Davos Switzerland. In his most recent report (see here) he shared these stories that struck me as particularly revealing of the real truth of what is happening with the “war on terror” and how our own Western media has distorted that truth so badly…
Time and [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 28th, 2008 No Comments »
People are tired of Bush. People are even tired of the Clintons. While Hillary has done well in the primaries, and even captured significant segments of voters like women who identified with her, she — along with Bill’s help — have also attracted the scorn of those on the Left who are simply tired of [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 21st, 2008 No Comments »
So where do we stand in the primaries? Well, on the Republican side, everything now points to a major contest in Florida on Jan 29th. All four front-runners (Giuliani, McCain, Romney and Huckabee) technically have a shot at winning (see latest polls here). Even Fred Thompson has a chance. However, while McCain’s win in South [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Jeff Jacoby’s latest column in the Boston Globe talks about the Death of the Bush Doctrine. What is the Bush Doctrine you ask? Well it’s many things, but in the context of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jacoby has it correct, the “Bush Doctrine” means the U.S. expects the Palestinian leadership to decide whose side they’ll be on, [...]
Posted in Politics on Jan 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Michigan was the state that Mitt Romney had to win to stay viable. If he couldn’t win there, given his family background and strong economic message, then it didn’t look like he would be able to win anyplace (except in Utah and Idaho). On the other hand, a McCain win would have given him the [...]
