“Frankly, We Don’t Want to Be Compared to Detroit”

by T.L. James | 10:40 am, November 30, 2008

And who can blame them?
Ex-communist Slovakia is fast becoming Europe’s Detroit: a humming automotive haven where — for now, at least — there’s no sign of the crisis gripping America’s Big Three.
“We’re talking about adding jobs, not eliminating them,” says Jun-Bum Park, general manager of Kia Motors Slovakia, which opened the sprawling euro1 billion ($1.36 [...]

“To the victor go the appointees?”

by David K. Williams, Jr. | 9:17 pm, November 28, 2008

The Post points out the G.W. Bush, like Bill Clinton before him and other outgoing presidents prior to that, has converted political appointee jobs into civil service jobs on their way out the door.

The difference is that appointees serve at the pleasure of the President, while civil servants are protected from being fired for political reasons.

This is just another example of why government power should always be curtailed, and never expanded. Power is abused by politicians.

The government is not comprised of altruistic individuals. Unfortunately, and despite examples throughout all recorded history, believers in government somehow think that politicians and bureaucrats only act in the best interest of society.

The fallacy is tragic.

“Lessons for the GOP to learn”

by David K. Williams, Jr. | 8:37 pm, November 28, 2008

Hardaway is a law professor at Denver University. And he completely misses the point.

He states that Republicans should not “assume that independent voters will vote for the candidate who best upholds such traditional values as fiscal responsibility …. and limited government.”

That might have some truth if the Republicans had nominated someone that stood for fiscal responsibility and limited government. They did not.

John McCain is a big-government Keynesian. When the Republicans nominate someone that thinks the government should regulate free speech (The McCain-Feingold Act), that gives tribute to Al Gore’s Cult of Global Warming and thinks that taxpayers should bail out failed private business, they become irrelevant.

The Democrats have these things covered. The Republicans are not going to win by trying to be “Democrat-lite.”

That is the single most important lesson the GOP needs to learn.

How the GOP Lost My Vote

by Brian T. Schwartz | 12:56 pm, November 28, 2008

Paul Hsieh has an excellent essay on this in the Denver Post:

After a resounding electoral defeat, in which voters in this once-red state rejected Republicans McCain, Schaffer, and Musgrave, the Colorado Republican Party will undoubtedly be asking themselves, “Why did we lose?”

I want to let them know that they lost …

Happy Thanksgiving

by Mr. Bob | 9:31 am, November 26, 2008

Click Here for a Short but Important ThanksGiving Message

and an educational one HERE

and a great video here;

“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown.“But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.” Abraham Lincoln

Thanksgiving is Upon Us: Let’s Forego the Ridiculous Political Correctness

by Ben DeGrow | 9:05 am, November 26, 2008

Thanksgiving Day is here tomorrow: A time to count our blessings and reflect on the faith of our forefathers OR a time to engage in ridiculous, politically-correct posturing at the expense of schoolchildren (H/T Michelle Malkin)? I’ll take the former, thank you very much.

The health care bailout of 2018

by Brian Schwartz | 2:01 am, November 26, 2008

Just as today’s economic mess results from politicians pushing “universal home ownership,” the fallout from politicians pushing for “universal health care” will be worse.  So argues Paul Hsieh, M.D. of Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine in the Colorado Springs Gazette.
No politician can evade the laws of economic reality. …
When Obama’s proposed national system inevitably [...]

Marines doing what they do best, kicking arse and taking names

by Mr. Bob | 1:55 pm, November 25, 2008

Marine Makes Insurgents Pay the Price
November 18, 2008
Marine Corps Newsby Cpl. James M. Mercure

FARAH PROVINCE, Afghanistan — In the city of Shewan, approximately 250 insurgents ambushed 30 Marines and paid a heavy price for it.

Shewan has historically been a safe haven for insurgents, who used to plan and stage attacks against Coalition Forces in the Bala Baluk district.

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The conclusion;

During the battle, the designated marksman single handedly thwarted a company-sized enemy RPG and machinegun ambush by reportedly killing 20 enemy fighters with his devastatingly accurate precision fire. He selflessly exposed himself time and again to intense enemy fire during a critical point in the eight-hour battle for Shewan in order to kill any enemy combatants who attempted to engage or maneuver on the Marines in the kill zone. What made his actions even more impressive was the fact that he didn’t miss any shots, despite the enemies’ rounds impacting within a foot of his fighting position.

“I was in my own little world,” the young corporal said. “I wasn’t even aware of a lot of the rounds impacting near my position, because I was concentrating so hard on making sure my rounds were on target.”

After calling for close-air support, the small group of Marines pushed forward and broke the enemies’ spirit as many of them dropped their weapons and fled the battlefield. At the end of the battle, the Marines had reduced an enemy stronghold, killed more than 50 insurgents and wounded several more.

“I didn’t realize how many bad guys there were until we had broken through the enemies’ lines and forced them to retreat. It was roughly 250 insurgents against 30 of us,” the corporal said.

“It was a good day for the Marine Corps. We killed a lot of bad guys, and none of our guys were seriously injured.” READ THE REST, HT Powerlineblog

more on the story at BlackFive

Got a song stuck in my head

by Mr. Bob | 11:16 am, November 25, 2008

The best thing to do when you have a song stuck in your head is to share it with others so they do too.

Support tax-funded schools? Then donate your own money.

by Brian T. Schwartz | 1:27 am, November 25, 2008

The Rocky Mountain News published my letter to the editor last week:
Amendment 59 backers should send refunds to schools

Let the “begathon” begin! That’s what educators would need to raise school funding because Amendment 59 failed, said Colorado Association of School Boards director Jane Urschel (“Despite defeat, Ritter aims for budget …

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