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 »

Revolution

By Paul Hollrah | 08/23/09

Returning from a congressional town hall meeting in Pryor Creek, Oklahoma last Tuesday, one of three town hall meetings held that day by our “blue dog” Democrat congressman, Dan Boren, I couldn’t help but notice a long deep gouge cut into the pavement of Sam’s Corner Road, near our home. And as I rounded the next bend in the road I could see what had cause the damage to the road. Parked off to the right side of... read more »

Hostage Rescue – Clinton Style

By Paul Hollrah | 08/11/09

American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for Al Gore’s Current TV organization, are now back on American soil. The two were captured by North Korean security forces in March of this year under circumstances that remain in dispute. They were charged with espionage, tried, and sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp.   Were the women captured on North Korean soil or on Chinese soil? And why were they... read more »

Recalling Soylent Green

By Paul Hollrah | 08/04/09

We all have a movie or two… perhaps three or four… that have left lasting impressions on us. . As a child, the first movie I ever saw was the 1943 film version of The Phantom of the Opera, starring Claude Raines and Susanna Foster.  Since my parents were poor sharecroppers in east-central Missouri and were the farthest thing from what one might call movie “buffs,” I’m sure it was not the subject matter of... read more »

Obama: Hope, Change, and Failure

By Paul Hollrah | 07/24/09

Barack Hussein Obama has now occupied the Oval Office for just 185 days. Under normal circumstances we might expect that a new president, supported by strong majorities of his own party in Congress, might have accomplished at least something of value in that length of time… but he hasn’t. In fact, he has dug such a political and economic hole for himself and his party that whatever prospects they might have envisioned have... read more »

Obama’s Double-Edged Sword

By Paul Hollrah | 07/14/09

In a July 14 editorial titled “Picking on the Swiss,” the Wall Street Journal criticizes the Obama Administration for attempting to require the Swiss Bank, UBS, to turn over to the IRS the names of some 52,000 US taxpayers who currently maintain secret accounts with the bank.    According to the Journal, “This sort of fishing expedition expressly violates the U.S.-Swiss treaty on sharing tax information.... read more »

Obama’s Honduras Blunder

By Paul Hollrah | 07/14/09

Once again, as he has in every available opportunity since he usurped the presidency, Barack Obama has sided with dictators, would-be dictators, and despots, to the detriment of those who love freedom and justice. His latest western hemisphere foreign policy blunder… as opposed to his more recent blunders in Italy, Russia, and Ghana… involved his unqualified support for the ousted would-be socialist dictator of Honduras,... read more »

Obama-Soros Hyperinflation

By Paul Hollrah | 07/07/09

While economists tell us that there is no precise numerical definition of hyperinflation, it is often defined as a period when the monthly inflation rate is greater than 50 percent. At a monthly inflation rate of 50 percent, an item that sold for $1 on January 1, 2009 would cost nearly $130 on January 1, 2010.   During the early 1920s, the monthly inflation rate reached 3.25 million percent in Germany, 275 percent in Poland, 213... read more »

The Mark Sanford Affair

By Paul Hollrah | 06/30/09

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford has recently reappeared after a week-long absence… an absence during which his whereabouts were unknown to his wife, his children, his staff, and his political advisors.  Prior to his departure on June 18, following a protracted court battle over South Carolina’s share of federal economic stimulus funds, he made casual mention to his staff that he’d like to spend some time hiking the... read more »