On the Left Side

Immigration Reform: It’s The Border, Stupid

Complaining about the illegal immigration problem gets you only so far. To make it all the way to the finish line, you need to develop solutions. Let’s consider one to help stop people streaming illegally across our border with Mexico for work or for free social services. Or to anchor themselves to our Country through the birth of a child. To solve that problem, the first thing we must do is secure our border…

Immigration Reform: Comprehensive Disinformation Part I

We can always tell when politicians are trying to pull the wool over our eyes. They telegraph their disinformation punches in the same way every time. Constant pounding on whatever it is they want to K.O., using a barrage of vague, but very inflammatory, posturing. Congressional addresses, press releases, fancy footwork in flowery speeches brim full of lofty platitudes and even taller tales. Bobbing and weaving with combinations of jabs, hooks and rabbit punches, so we’ll…

Stimulus Spending: What Has It Actually Done For Us?

Apparently, almost $800 billion is not enough to stimulate an economic recovery, at least not one led by Barack Obama. So, he’s back at it, demanding a gazillion more dollars, which, according to him, are necessary to pull off an escape from Great Recession City. For those who doubt the wisdom of layering spending upon spending, the Administration has a new marketing slogan to sell the idea. The “Summer of Recovery”, first heard from the…

Obama Politics: When Denial Just Isn’t Enough

You can always tell when a politician steps in it. You know, messes up. He gives it away by how he answers questions about whatever it is. Iffy situations that would otherwise fade into distant memory become hot items because politicians just can’t resist making them worse. Usually much worse through the old reliables, denial and cover up. Those bad boys scream volumes about people who are willing to cozy up to them, and none of it…

The Gulf Oil Spill: A Leadership Disaster

When we’re standing at the ballot box, we really can’t know the type of leader a newly elected President will be. Especially one with almost no prior national exposure. He could be great, mediocre, bad or really, really bad. Barack Obama has turned out to be really, really bad.

Time and again, he’s proven himself to be a purely political creature, and not a very good one. He manages to get his agenda passed through Congress because…

The Lone Gunman

“The lone gunman” is a slam on Government-led criminal investigations. It’s a term that means official coverup. Either officials don’t want the truth known or, more likely, they can’t figure out what happened. So, just pin it on a single individual and be done with it. The term first came into use by those who rejected the Warren Commission’s finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Today, in our terror-plagued world, The Lone Gunman is back with a vengeance…

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