The Sunshine Empire

During the 2004 presidential elections one of the favorite go to lines of most Republicans was the statement from Senator John Kerry that he was for the Iraq War supplemental bill before he was against it. Republicans and conservatives are gleeful when they are able to point out some kind of waffling or changing of [...]

Watching the gathering of world leaders at the United Nations for the General Assembly reminds me of the irony of world attitude toward the United States. I cannot remember who said the following but it is true. The world community spent the bulk of the years of the Bush administration deploring the lack of multilateralism [...]

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Beck says McCain, "this weird progressive like Theodore Roosevelt was." Beck lacks intelligence to know when he compliments people. # If you feel the father of modern America was a "weird progressive" then you sir are just downright un-American. # RT @DavidCornDC The Pentagon office overseeing contracts has 14 people. That must make Blackwater very [...]

“A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.” -Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt predicted the first decade of the 21st century all the way from the first decade of the 20th. “The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” -Theodore Roosevelt