The Audacity of a Conservative Court

Like it or not, you gotta love it.   If you read the papers today you would see that the Supreme Court ruled 9 – 0 in favor of 6,000 black applicants for firefighter suing the City of Chicago. At least that’s the way it’s being reported.   While to phrase it that way is not [...]

Of Special Interest

I’m all for free speech as long as I can control what you’re saying.   That seems to be the message the Democrats are sending after the Supreme Court dismantled rules in place for a hundred years restricting corporate spending on political ads. The court’s edict officially reinstated the constitutional right to freedom of speech for [...]

Change In More Ways Than One

Change. With that one word an inexperienced community activist, schooled in the finer points of strong- arm Chicago politics, was placed in control of the most powerful nation on earth. The innocuous promise of something different was all it took. It mattered not to the country what that “something different” would be, having first been [...]

Speculating On Stupidity

Here we go again! Political leaders on both sides of the big pond have once again begun to look for scapegoats in the lack of sufficient or immediate economic recovery. And once again their focus has turned to oil. Well, not so much oil, as those who make money speculating on oil. UK Prime Minister [...]