Who Has the Political Power?
Last week I listened to a Podcast that compared the recent responses to the mass shootings to what happened following the 2012 tragedy in Sandyhook. In both cases, survivors and families of those killed made endless pleas to Congress to ban assault weapons. In both cases, Congress refused. The podcast included clips of the […]
Tags: AR15, assault weapons, Barack Obama, gun control, guns, maryann miller, mass shootings, NRA, Parkland Florida, politics, Sandyhook, The Daily Podcast, the Dallas Morning News, writing
Friday’s Odds and Ends, Obama, Gay Marriage and More
This has been a crazy upside-down day for me. Instead of being in my office first thing to do my blog and take care of other writing-related tasks, I was headed to town to do some publicity for a show coming to the Winnsboro Center for the Arts at the end of this month. This […]
Tags: Barack Obama, comedy, Dallas, gay marriage, melodrama, pocket sandwich theatre
Monday Morning Musings
I read a good editorial in The Dallas Morning News the other day. Titled: Trimming Government, Message to Obama and Congress: Get on with it, it listed a number of ways to balance the budget. The top two suggestions: Eliminate duplicate programs Consolidate related programs Good ideas. Do you think if enough of us say […]
Tags: Barack Obama, Congress, federal budget, Horses for Heroes, Open Season, Susan Cain, veterans
Wednesday’s Guest
Instead of my normal Wednesday’s Guest where a real live person shares something, I wanted to let some of the organizations and websites that are part of the online protest of SEPA speak up. This from Google Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth […]
Tags: Barack Obama, Google, Internet, SOPA, Wikipedia
Friday’s Odds and Ends
The best news story of the decade. All 33 miners rescued from the mine in Chile after being trapped underground for over two months. Need I say more? There is a new ethics rule for Texas attorneys. They are now prohibited from having sex with their clients. So, previously it was okay to have sex […]
Tags: Barack Obama, Jonah Goldberg, Maryann Miller Charles Carillo, odds and ends
The Devil Made me Do it
I wasn’t going to do it, honest. Blog about the Health Care Reform bill, that is, but these opinions just keep rattling around in my head interfering with an otherwise normal day of writing. This reform scares me as much as the one proposed by the Clinton’s, primarily because like so many other people, I […]
Tags: Barack Obama, health care reform, politics
Right or Wrong?
What a tangled mess this whole situation is revolving around the arrest of Harvard Professor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at his home in Cambridge. In case you have been on a desert island somewhere for the past week and have not heard the news, Professor Gates was arrested for disorderly conduct by Sgt. James Crowley […]
Tags: Barack Obama, Harvard Professor, Professor Gates, racism, Sgt. Crowley
Can the President Really do This?
The other day President Barack Obama told Rick Wagoner, CEO of General Motors, to step down. First of all, I couldn’t believe that the president would actually do that, and I was shocked that Wagoner agreed. And I can’t help but wonder what happened behind the scenes to lead to this. Wagoner’s tenure as CEO […]
Tags: Barack Obama, General Motors, Rick Wagoner, socialism
The Day After
Just like the changing of the year from one to the next, the changing of a presidential name takes some time to get used to. Several times today as I was updating WinnsboroToday.com with news, I had to stop and remind myself to write “President Obama” as opposed to “President Bush”. I suppose in time […]
Tags: Barack Obama, character, inauguration, integrity
Monday Morning Musing
Today, I’m thinking about the Jimmy Buffett song “Come Monday.” “Come Monday It’ll be all right, Come Monday I’ll be holding you tight. I spent four lonely days in a brown L.A. haze And I just want you back by my side.” I used to be able to do a fair rendition of the song […]
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