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Sarah Palin

It is Possible to Laugh and Cry at the Same Time

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You Asked for It

“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”
-Aesop

Barack Obama is our president-elect. As such, he has my respect, my prayers, and my hopes for leadership that is best for America. That said, his victory does not chage who he is. While many have been afraid of what Obama secretly is (you know [...]

Election Eve Thoughts and Predictions

Well here we are on the eve of—wait for it—the most important election of our lives. I know, I know. It’s a tired old expression we get every cycle. It’s a presidential election. It’s as important as the last one and the next one. And as a presidential election, there’s a lot at stake.
And rest [...]

The BIG Choice We Face

For some time now I have been trying to compose a post called “A Time for Choosing 2008″ in homage of Reagan’s famous Goldwater speech. I wanted to clearly define the choice we are facing Tuesday. Unfortunately, I just couldn’t get it to work out right. Fortunately, I stumbled upon Kyle-Anne Shiver’s piece on The [...]

The Polling Fallacy

Does anyone realize how worthless polls of the national popular vote are?
In the first place, they are too close to call. And even more importantly, we do not elect presidents by popular vote. Essentially what is being reported is Obama’s daily popularity contest standings. No one can even begin to give you a reasonable look [...]

She’s Forgetting the Congress -or- Does Betty Ford Have an Obama Kool-Aid Detox Program?

Peggy Noonan has long been a favorite of mine, but she seems to have lost her moorings this election cycle. She’s repeatedly encouraged the Republicans to bring a knife to a gunfight, so to speak. While urging, through her writing, some “new” civility, a rising above all the clamor, she has written hateful things about [...]

L.A. Times Steps in It

Posting this picture, The Dish Rag blog by Elizabeth Snead at the L.A. Times website asks,
“How did Newsweek get Sarah Palin to pose with a rifle?”
Her answer is that Newsweek didn’t; it’s an old file photo. That said, methinks you wouldn’t have to twist Palin’s arm for a pic with a rifle. She could probably [...]

Fair Tax Perfect Storm

Methinks the current state of financial affairs in this nation (not to mention the world) could be the perfect storm we need to get some genuine consideration, and hopefully passage, of the Fair Tax.
Here are a few reasons. They dovetail well with these.

The Fair Tax is a huge, great big, fat, enormous shift of power [...]

The WynnBlog’s New Spokesman

What he said…

He’s so articulate and bright and clean and nice looking.
Via Midnight Blue.

Post-VP Debate WynnCast

I was joined by Michael Bates and Jason Carini on tonight’s WynnCast wherein we analyzed tonight’s VP debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. Give it a listen.