Given that the good folks at NING are going to start charging for these databases, I have chosen to move back to Dave Hunter's Thoughts Aloud http://www.thoughtsaloud.com/

I hope to see you there.

According to a recent statement by avowed socialist Senator Bernie Sanders, Health Care is now a RIGHT in America. However, before we explore the perversion of language and logic that would be required to make such a ridiculous statement accurate or even true, a slight digression is needed...



As I have stated before, I write this stuff to help clarify my own thinking as well as to vent some of my frustration. I hold no notion… Continue

Taken emotionally, without the tempering effect of rational thought, Progressivism / Socialism might seem a pretty good idea. Under it, everybody will be equal, in outcome as well as in their initial condition. Each person's needs will be seen to without regard to their willingness or ability to act in a productive manner. There will be no want, no poverty, no disease, no worry -- just do as the benevolent nanny state tells you and all will be well. Is this not the very Utopia Thomas More… Continue

Last evening, many of you tuned into what you thought was going to be a United States President reporting to Congress on the state of the American Union, a task required by our Constitution. But, that was not what you saw and heard was it? (Assuming you had the iron stomach needed to sit through the whole tirade). Nope. If you were actually paying attention to the speech, rather than watching "Nancy In The Box" pop up at the scripted moments, that is, when she wasn't absorbed with her… Continue

So - the Obamanation Regime has made a decision (of sorts) relative to the conduct of the Afghan War. This has ignited much chatter among the talking heads as to whether this decision will help us win the war and, indeed, whether that war can even be won. Obviously I have opinions on this matter. But, before one can ask whether/how the war might be won, one must first ask what does "winning" actually mean? This, in turn, requires one to consider why we are there to begin with... in other words,… Continue