I hate when I have to write one of these snarky replies to Blanche Lincoln’s newsletters, but when my BS meter goes off the scale, it’s either reply or bite my tongue. As my tongue is still bleeding from her last newsletter, a reply is in order.
Dear Fellow Arkansan,
My top priority for Arkansas is creating [...]
Forget the deadly insects from space; we have enough of them in Washington. And if you believe they aren’t deadly, look at our national debt. The Washington insects will kill this country as sure as the bugs wasted Rio.
Heinlein’s book had a premise – that we have a world government and two classes of people; [...]
Will the pandering never cease? Following is a quote from the latest fantasy Senator Lincoln calls a newsletter.
“Having grown up in a rural area, I am strongly committed to ensuring that rural Arkansans have access to the services and infrastructure they need. Our rural communities depend on these investments to make improvements to community facilities [...]
The Obama administration is enacting a Cloward and Piven plan to destroy the United States. Part of it is to overwhelm the government, and illegal aliens are one tool in their arsenal.
Arizona is well within their rights under the U.S. Constitution. The state (AZ) is not patrolling the border – they are enforcing the law [...]
Libido Dominandi – literally translated from Latin means the lust to dominate, or the lust for power. This is a good general description of what drives many politicians, and is certainly apt in describing the Conway City Council’s latest project.
The latest ill-conceived project will require that the city use an Arkansas law that may have [...]
In a previous article we discussed making the federal government more honest, smaller, and more fiscally responsible. That was the first part of what we thought would be a two-part article. We were wrong on that. This is the second article, and there will be more. Reversing the Progressive downhill slide our country has taken [...]
Before we start, let me say that this article is a very simplistic explanation of an exceptionally complex solution to non-responsive government. It doesn’t take a Nobel Laureate to come to the conclusion that the government of the United States is broken. In order to apply the fix I am advocating here will take years. [...]
In his book, 1984, George Orwell wrote two lines that describe the strategy of progressives today:
“If all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth.”
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
These two classic lines from Orwell describe how the [...]
There’s something refreshing about going to a city council meeting. No matter how frustrated you are about national or state politics, going to a city council meeting is a way to refresh and recharge.
It’s not that the city council is any more honest or responsive than state or national politicians, although usually they are both. [...]
Sometimes called the Nuclear Option, Reconciliation is a method of moving financial bills forward without filibuster. It’s a tool of the majority party, no matter who they are.
As defined in Wikipedia:
“Reconciliation is one of the most important developments to emerge from the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. (See Pub.L. 93-344, § 310; 88 Stat. 297; 2 [...]