Yawper

It just does not seem right.  Or fair.  But that does not diminish the problem. Charlie Cook today writes in the National Journal that the American public is simply not interested in the triple scandals rocking the Obama Administration.  The specter of the failed impeachment of Bill Clinton looms, warns the astute Cook. Those, like […]

Obama needs an Alexander Haig moment.  Alas, I doubt we will hear Obama state “as of now, I am in control here, in the White House.”  The man who voted “present” 130 times in the Illinois State Senate is again taking a pass during tough times. Instead of taking a page from fellow Democrat Harry […]

John Bolton and Mike Huckabee recently predicted that the Benghazi affair and its Nixonian cover-up would bring down to the Obama administration.  It pains me to say that they are wrong.  If anything prematurely ends the Obama era it should be the IRS scandal. Obama leaving office before the end of his term is pure […]

The Boston Massacre of 1770 offers an unusual example of justice that authorities dealing with the Boston Marathon Bombings of 2013 should heed. Despite his personal beliefs, professional ambitions, and the patriotic fervor of Boston after British soldiers killed five civilian Americans, future President John Adams defended the redcoats in court.  The reason was particularly […]

Leave it to the courts to disregard the small bit of sanity that seeps through our political culture.  Or have they? For the record I oppose what is known as Plan B, the morning-after pill.  Very simply my objection is based on my ardent opposition to abortion.  I understand perfectly well the argument of the […]