Good Enough?

I’ve got a post ready that I’ll  publish a little later on in which I do a little explaining of the debt deal that was just passed today. Meanwhile, I feel the immediate need as a concerned young woman; as a concerned young American, to vent. This deal is no good, people. Please come back and read…

Baseline Funny Business

While I sit contemplating the yet-to-be-passed-in-the-Senate debt deal, I feel that many people mulling over this compromise lack an understanding of exactly what the proposed “cuts” in the bill mean. It’s not hard to see why. Most individuals, when constructing a household budget, do not typically plan ahead to spend more than what’s coming in.…

Reaganomics = Obamanomics?

In what appeared to be a desperate hope to find someone with an ounce of credibility to help defend his tax-and-spend plans for the country, the President has once again called upon the words of an otherwise ideological enemy. In Monday night’s address to the nation, President Obama quoted the late President Reagan: “Would you…

Social Securi……er…..Deception

Most extraordinary.  I found myself in a state of utter befuddlement as I took in the words exiting our Commander and Chief’s mouth during his address to the nation. While just as wrong, it is one thing for politicians to dance the verbal dance they always do (ie. to selectively skirt words, take Reagan quotes out of…

The Founders’ Fight . . . to End Slavery?

As I sit contemplating our nation’s great history as the 235th birthday of the United States is celebrated this month, I consider what it took to achieve and maintain. What great sacrifices have transpired, from those colonists who signed with their sacred honor the Declaration of Independence, to the doomed men walking their last steps…

A Pivotal Crossroads

POLITICS. We are inundated with the “P” word each day.  Pundits bicker, politicians pontificate, and for the sake of our sanity, we tend to tune it all out. We are screamed at from every direction as to what works; what is right; what is true north.  We live in a world in which anything can…