Unemployment Flim-Flam

By Paul Hollrah | 11/03/09

In January 2009, as Obama unveiled his plans for economic recovery, he assured the Congress and the American people that, if we would just agree to set up a $787 billion slush fund for him to play with, he would fix our sick economy and that the unemployment rate would never exceed 8 percent. With a straight face, and with words that came straight from his teleprompter, he vowed that he would accomplish something that no man, and no... read more »

Is Obama Impeachable?

By Paul Hollrah | 10/27/09

Article II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution tells us that “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” In the history of the United States there have been only three Presidential impeachment proceedings: Following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, his... read more »

Rising Above the Rabble

By Paul Hollrah | 10/26/09

During the 1881 gubernatorial election in Mississippi, the segregationist Democrat, Robert Lowry, had nothing but disdain for his independent opponent, Benjamin King, and those who supported him… a coalition of “dissident farmers, Republicans, and blacks,” people who, from Lowry’s KKK-oriented perspective, were “gutter trash.”  In his book, Political Culture of the 19th Century South, author Bradley G.... read more »

The Summer of 1981

By Paul Hollrah | 10/09/09

On Page 118 of Barack Obama’s memoir, Dreams from My Father, he tells of his arrival in New York to attend Columbia University and of the events that took place during that summer… the summer of 1981. While still in Los Angeles, before leaving Occidental College, he’d heard of a vacant apartment on 109th Street in the Spanish Harlem section of Upper Manhattan. He arranged to sublet the apartment and he tells of dragging... read more »

Democratic Racism “Bubbles” Up

By Paul Hollrah | 09/29/09

Try to imagine the 4th congressional district of Georgia. It is a mostly black district represented by second term Congressman Hank Johnson. The district was represented for many years by one of the most celebrated nutcases in congressional history, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. It is a district which proves, if nothing else, that fools and idiots have a right to be represented in Congress just like everyone else. After being defeated in... read more »

The Speaker Misspeaks

By Paul Hollrah | 09/20/09

I'm sure that by now we have all heard Nancy Pelosi's teary-eyed comments at a recent press conference, decrying the fact that some of the posters at the anti-Obama rallies use language that is a bit on the "edgy" side. In a September 17 news conference in which she repeatedly choked back tears, she said, “I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw this myself in the late 70s in San Francisco.... read more »

Political Poison Pills

By Paul Hollrah | 09/17/09

Beginning in the 1930s, during the depth of the Great Depression, Democrats began repeating over and over again that it was the fiscal policies of a Republican president that brought on the Great Depression, that the Republican Party was owned by the “robber barons” of Wall Street, and that Republicans were the enemies of working men and women… the “common” man.     It was all a big lie, but... read more »

Echoes From The Grave

By Paul Hollrah | 09/05/09

As the setting sun dipped slowly below the horizon, turning the stately old residence of General Robert E. Lee into a dark silhouette against the western sky, an inky darkness descended over the graves of our nation’s heroes in Arlington National Cemetery. Meanwhile, on the slopes below… reminiscent of Bill Clinton’s reluctant departure from the city in January 2001… the meticulously-planned funeral service for Senator... read more »

The Real Ted Kennedy

By Paul Hollrah | 08/29/09

Watching the seemingly endless line of people parading past the flag-draped coffin of the late Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy, one wonders what it’s all about. Yes, liberals and Democrats are fond of conjecturing about “what might have been” had JFK and Bobby Kennedy not been assassinated, or “what might have been” if Kennedy had not driven his mother’s Oldsmobile off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island that... read more »

The Real Problem with Healthcare

By Paul Hollrah | 08/25/09

The real problem with healthcare in our country is not quality or availability; the problem with healthcare is the inexplicably high cost, and the fact that no one seems interested in finding out exactly why healthcare is so expensive and who gets all the money.  The current resident of the White House and his friends in Congress are now attempting to ram through a national healthcare system that will extend healthcare coverage to 10... read more »