America’s “Happiness Index” At New Low
The other day it occurred to me that during Ronald Reagan’s run for the Presidency he created a “Misery Index”. This index represented a total of the rate of inflation, plus the prime rate, as an indicator of how the American people felt about how they were doing. No one has suggested resurrecting this index in recent years. My thought was to create a “Happiness Index”. How happy are you with the leadership of the country. The problem is that other than taking an outright pol…
George Bush – Forgive Him, For He Knows Not What He Does
I am a patriotic American. Politically, I consider myself slightly to the right of center. But if I held George Bush fully responsible for everything he has done, I’d consider him a war criminal. The only reason I don’t see him that way is that, after watching him, I have concluded that the man is simply unconscious. There’s nothing unusual about that – in fact it’s quite a common condition. Indeed I wonder just how much I am unconscious of. After all, we can’t be aware of wh…
Six Years Later – A Failed Presidency
President Bush came into office with great promise, and the reality has been one failure after another, and this is coming from a writer who was a conservative Republican before the President knew what the term meant. Let’s use former President Ronald Reagan’s requirements for a successful Presidency. Do you remember the last debate between then President Jimmy Carter and candidate Reagan? The former Republican Governor of California asked the American people in closing if th…
Troop Surge In Iraq Will Deepen Quagmire
It looks like President Bush is going to announce a “temporary increase” in the number of American troops serving in Iraq. The President is adding complexity to a series of wrong decisions he has made since the beginning of the invasion. It is difficult to imagine how a surge in American troops can fix a self-created problem?
We have made the same mistake that five star General Douglas MacArthur warned about with regard to Asia, “Never get involved in a land war in Asia.” …
Momma Always Told You, Don’t Play In The Street
Eight (8) people lay dead in the street because no one listens to momma
Lincoln Group-Republican Party, CIA spies?-Garfield Media Talking Head?
More musings about a potentially developing conspiracy involving planted news stories in Iraq, the Pentagon, and the intricate web of players that seem to indicate a web that reaches into the White House.