Party Like It’s 1773

    December 16th, marked the 235th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, the original Boston Tea Party. It is the model for the more than 500 tea parties that are taking place across America on this day which marks the deadline for filing taxes.
A little more than 235 years ago the residents of the American [...]

Release The Cap’n O’ The Ship And I Assure That No Harm Will Come T’ Ye Or Ye Hearties

    As America encounters one of its ships being pirated for the first time in 200 years, our leaders are slow to respond.  In place of a real response, here is one courtesy of the Exurban League…….
After maintaining his silence for two days, President Obama will soon make his first public statement about the pirate [...]

Cutting The Defense Budget….And Our Throats

    Hurray!   During this period of troubling economic times, with increasingly poor economic indicators and concerns over deficit spending, President Obama’s new administration has proposed their first budget cuts.
Out of all the  cuts that can be made, these proposed budget reduction measures are proposed in of all places, our defense budget
These proposed cuts came from one of the administrations [...]

Maneuvering Through Minnesota Politics

   Democrats are maneuvering their way to a filibuster proof majority in the U.S. Senate.
Despite ballot counting irregularities that are still being reviewed by the Minnesota courts, liberal Democrat Al Franken maintains a slim plurality of votes over moderate Republican incumbent Senator Norm Coleman.
The process that afforded Franken this lead is quite questionable and it [...]

America Is Sorry ?

Die Welt ist ein besserer Ort wegen der Aktionen und Führung von Amerika und die Menschen.
You probably don’t know what that means.   It is German.
It is a language that we would probably be more familiar with had the United States not stood up to tyranny and finally came to the rescue of the world when [...]

Because “Hope” and “Change” Is Easier Said Than Done

     Like Charles Schultz’s famous Peanuts character, Linus van Pelt, who literally carries around a blanket as a source of security, President Obama carries a teleprompter around with him everywhere he goes.
A teleprompter is the source of what is suppose to be the first quality that impresses us with our new President. We are suppose [...]