Congratulations Chris!

Check out the happy grad (San Jose State U; Music Ed)!

Good job Chris! We're so proud of you and the effort it took to accomplish this!

Chris Graduates Saturday With A Music Ed Degree!

It's been a long (7 year) haul going to school part-time and working part-time but the goal has been reached! Congratulations Chris on getting your Bachelor Degree in Music Ed this Saturday! Mom and I are so proud of you! It's quite an accomplishment. Well done!

My Sons ... Good Men!!!

My two sons are taking on life's challenges with resolve and integrity. I couldn't be more proud of them.

Ah, For The Good Old Days After Bush II's Tax Cuts!

Don't you all long for the good old days created by Bush II's tax cuts? Remember what happened after the majority (80%) of his tax cuts were implemented at the end of May 2003? One month later the unemployment rate peaked out at 6.3% and began a steady decline in only 3 1/2 years to 'Clinton levels' of 4.4%. And only three or four months after Bush II's tax cuts cut in, federal revenue began a steady climb to a record(!) $2.6 Trillion (also in only 3 1/2 years), some 30% higher than achieved under Clinton for the same unemployment rate?

Of course The Left loves to fallaciously tie the 2008 economic problem to those Bush tax cuts and policies in spite of the fact(!) that they had nothing to do with it and in spite of the fact(!) that his tax cuts helped both unemployment and federal revenue until something totally unrelated cratered the economy. Remember that the 2008 collapse was triggered instead by the sub-prime mess that had nothing whatsoever to do with Bush tax cuts or policies? I'm sure those drinking The Left's Kool-Aid still choose(!) not to remember those inconvenient facts but that's what actually happened for those of you who 'can handle the truth'.

Democrat Hypocrisy Regarding The Killing Of OBL

President Obama criticized Romney last week for saying something he didn't even say and taking a position he didn't even take regarding going after Bin Laden.

Romney NEVER said not to go after OBL but he did say we'd best not lose our focus on the bigger problem we have with international terrorism. He always said we should go after OBL but warned against taking too many resources off the general threat in order to accomplish that. So, President Obama is quoting Romney totally out of context and stating a supposition as if fact that maybe Romney wouldn't have approved such a raid as the one that killed OBL. OBL committed the greatest act of terrorism against our homeland in our entire history. Does anyone except president Obama actually think ANY American president would not go after OBL? Turns out however that there is one president who actually failed to act and he's now lecturing Romney. (More on that below.)

Well, not so fast with your criticism Mr. President! Don't you remember that, contrary to what Romney actually said, your own VP (Biden) actually said we should not go after OBL? Obama's own VP actually said what Obama is falsely accusing Romney of saying. Hmmmmm. Mr. President your hypocrisy and tendency to bend/twist the truth are showing again.

We've also just seen President Clinton get on this bandwagon and criticize Romney for saying/believing something that Romney did not say/believe. I almost fell off my chair when I heard Clinton criticize Romney when it is factually true that Clinton is the only president who in fact did choose not to get OBL when he could have. And he did so not once but at three different opportunities!!!

The country's leading Democrats are coming unglued folks. This kind of nonsense is unbecoming a president and we have the last two Democratic presidents practicing this hypocrisy and mean-spirited behavior.

To MSNBC: What About President Obama's "Economic Acumen"? How Has That Worked Out?

Funny, FUNNY headline today on MSNBC: "Romney sells his economic acumen, but voters may not be buying".

That's flat hilarious!!! Of course they mean compared with Obama's "economic acumen", right? Our economy is stuck in a ditch that Obama said he'd have fixed long before now and HE has "economic acumen"? He was hailed as the smartest president ever. He AND the lame-stream media went out of their way to claim that no one on the planet knew what was wrong and how to fix it better than he did. If he was so smart, why is he now saying he didn't know how bad it was? Isn't that an admission that he was ignorant regarding the problem instead(!) of being the smartest about it?

How the media can say such things with a collective straight face is amusing isn't it?

President Obama Once Again Proves(!) He Doesn't Understand Our Founding Or Our Constitution

President Obama doesn't understand what the founding of this country was all about any more than he understands the constitution (as I explained a couple of blogs ago)

Regarding the constitution, just because he taught constitutional law doesn't mean he understands the constitution. One can attempt to teach something without truly understanding it. Just because you teach a subject doesn't mean you understand it correctly.

What he was teaching is the progressive view of constitutional law that what's lawful is not what the constitution says or was intended to mean. He was NOT teaching the constitution; rather how to change it!!! Hello People! What he was teaching is the progressive view that legal precedence trumps(!) the constitution. By that vehicle, therefore, the Supreme Court could have the power to change the constitution (the way progressives want) instead of defending its principles. Once they say something is constitutional, that makes it so ... whether either the founders or the constitution itself said so in the beginning. In effect, they can choose to define something as lawful that the founders tried mightily to prevent. It is they who can say what they want the constitution to support now whether that was supported originally or not. That is NOT what the founders intended ... AT ALL!

Now President Obama has the audacity to claim he's actually in sync with the founders. What a crazy idea that is! In a 4/19/12 article titled "The Governing Class and Us" the Heritage editors described his disconnect as follows: "President Barack Obama delivered a politically charged speech (on 4/18/12 in Elyria, OH) in which he hearkened back to the country's roots, saying that his opponents "don't seem to remember how America was built." In his view, taxpayers want their money spent in ways that will help further "the larger project we call America." In other words, more spending and bigger government paid for with higher taxes."

America was built on the principle of a small federal government with very limited power. President Obama's goal is to increase the scope, size and control of the federal government, period! As a progressive he believes there is no ill in our land that the federal government cannot fix ... if we give it sufficient money and bureaucratic power. That is what the founders worked hard to prevent!!! Even the liberals of those founding days ('old' liberalism per Herbert Hoover) understood the evils of big, powerful and controlling government. After all, they had just fought for our freedom from England over that very thing.

President Obama thinks his Republican opponents don't remember how America was built? Good grief! It is he who doesn't know our history! It's a good thing he never taught that subject ... progressives are terrible at teaching it but revising history is what they do best!!!

Learn from the evils in history or you'll be doomed to repeat them. Our founders knew that. They knew from history and their own experience with King George the inevitable results of big and powerful government. They did their best to prevent it here and they succeeded for about 200 years. Now this knucklehead of a president wants us to believe his revision of our own history. He must think we're stupid!

Taxing The Rich At Odds With The Electric Car Agenda

President Obama's progressive policies are running headlong into each other, mutual destruction style. Mr. Obama's tax plan, meet Mr. Obama's 'plan' for electric cars!

There's a big problem with electric cars. They're expensive. So expensive in fact that the market for them is pretty much limited to people making more than $200,000 per year according to Robert Bryce's quote of Deloitte Consulting about this.

But, wait a minute! Aren't those the same people whose income is about to take a big dive if Obama gets his way with his tax-the-rich scheme? Seems to me that those 'evil rich' people will be less able and less inclined to buy those electric cars that only they used to be able to afford.

Progressives tend to believe they can create (force) a market where one doesn't exist by force of power or taxpayer money. Problem is, that only works in college classrooms ... at progressive institutions. In the real world, the market is determined by what people want and can afford. Progressives may not like capitalism but, in the end, it rules the day. Produce a product few people want (because it doesn't work or meet a real need) or can afford and they won't buy it.

That approach didn't work in communist Russia when the government decided to control shoe production. They created a standard shoe that would be made throughout the country and they made more than enough for everyone. Yet, there was a shoe shortage. Why? Because no Russians wanted the shoe designed by their government. Those plentiful shoes piled up in government-owned shoe stores and people went without shoes because that was easier on their feet than wearing a bureaucracy's creation.

Hmmmmm. Is it 'back to the drawing board' time on your policies yet Mr. President? Perhaps on your progressive approach to things as well?

Even Progressives 'Get' The Issue With ObamaCare

"The Far Right" wasn't so nutty after all! We claimed from the beginning that ObamaCare would cost more, not less, and that it would add to the deficit in spite of President Obama's assurances to the contrary. We used common sense at the time. We had no choice because ObamaCare's instigators were hiding the truth and playing shell games with our tax money. We suspected, based simply on common sense, what has become provably true now. Check out two NRO articles.

First, John Fund's description of what happened includes this:

"As early as last September, a panel of liberal journalists on NBC News consisting of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, the Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman, and David Ignatius of the Washington Post all agreed that Obama’s “biggest political mistake” was devoting so much time and attention to health care. “The idea of launching a major change in social legislation without having a consensus in the country and in Congress about what that should look like was a mistake,” Ignatius summed up. “That’s just not how a president makes good policy.”"

The reaction of us on 'the far right': Well, DUH!!! Those kinds of comments are startling to progressives across America but we far right crazy people can reasonably and quite rationally claim We Told You So!

Second is Michael Barone's article on the real cost of ObamaCare. Smoke and mirrors at a minimum. Lies and subterfuges would be a more honest assessment.

It's Ironic That President Obama Is Accusing The Supreme Court Of Activism

So, the Prez is accusing the Supreme Court of judicial activism should it overturn part/all of ObamaCare. That's ironic because creating ObamaCare was an act of progressive activism and of executive activism. Actually, I guess the Prez ought to know what activism is since he's the most practiced president of it in our entire history. Who better to judge what is or is not activism? ;-)

Well, if it is judicial activism, I say so be it. Sometimes it takes an act of activism to counter an activist action. One can accurately say, however, that it's not the Supreme Court that would be activist in this case. The real activism in this case was the Prez's health care law. Overturning it would be an act of patriotism and constitutional support/enforcement. It would be honoring, y'know, that pesky oath they ALL take to uphold, preserve and protect the constitution of the United States.

The Prez, by that legislation and his threats(!) toward the Supreme Court, has proved once again the irrationality of his claim that he understands the constitution. It proves his claim to knowledge based on having taught constitutional law is invalid. Just because you teach something doesn't mean you understand it correctly and he's proving that he doesn't by actions he takes nearly every day he's in office. The only thing he really understands about the constitution is the progressive agenda for changing it into something it was never intended to be.