Archive for March, 2010

Lawrence J. Haas

Great athletes describe how, during moments of success, they feel as if time is slowing down so that – whether they are leading a fast break or awaiting a 95-mile-an-hour pitch – they see the game unfold in a kind of slow motion.

Apparently we're just gonna let this happen.

In the arena of public affairs, we, too, have the power to step back and watch a new world unfold as if in slow motion. What seemed like disparate events as they occurred over the course of weeks, months or longer can, upon reflection, reveal a consistent pattern of activity with a predictable conclusion.

And so it is with Iran’s nuclear program.

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Kelly Anderson Wright

When people hear you’re from Reno, they inevitably ask, “What’s the deal with Harry Reid? Why does Nevada keep re-electing him?”

The simple answer: Power.

Nevadans have caught on to him.

“Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have,” said Obama’s mentor, Saul Alinsky. And therein lies the key to Reid’s continued electoral success. Sadly, the enemies Alinsky referred to are the voters back home.

Rightly or wrongly, Nevadans always believed Harry had the power to do great things for Nevada. As Senate Majority Leader, Reid would make sure Nevadans came first in Washington.

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Not only that, but he’s pretty excited about how much money they’ll save the government. “Debunked,” eh?

Gov. Palin will accept your apologies whenever you’re ready.

Bob Maistros

Top 10 Reasons to Drop $2000 in Republican National Committee Funds on a Bondage-Themed Sex Club  (with apologies to The Late Show):

Grand Party indeed.

10. We thought “Voyeur” was French for “tax cut.”

9. Inspired strategy to divert attention from Obama’s health-care reform win and Afghanistan trip.

8.  We were told the “strip steak” was excellent.  We didn’t realize they meant “strip stake.”

7. Testing the RNC financial controls.  Good thing we caught that low-level staffer messing up.

6.  We were worried that exploding poll numbers and having the Democrats completely on the defensive would leave Republican ranks complacent.

5.  How were we supposed to know GOP didn’t actually stand for “Get Out and Party?”

4. Two words:  “stimulus” funds.

3.  Proof-positive that the “religious right” is not running the Republican Party.

2. You were expecting midnight basketball?

1. Fact-finding visit to learn more about the all-important California “lesbian-bondage” vote.

Ashley Stinnett

Did Jesus teach us the only way to earn salvation is by helping the poor through despotic government mandates? Not in my Bible, he didn’t. However, that is the message being espoused by a lot of churches today.

It wasn't about politics with Him, it was about free will.

In recent weeks, Fox News conservative personality Glenn Beck has been bringing this topic to light as millions of Americans are slowly learning the dangers this pseudo-Christian doctrinal message ushers in.

Keep in perspective that this is all part of a grand scheme known as “liberalizing Christianity” which is a trend that has been ongoing since right after the 2004 elections which saw a majority of church-goers vote heavily for George W. Bush.

After John Kerry’s sound defeat in that election, the far-left knew they needed a game changer if they stood any chance at winning future elections on the backs of traditional Americans.

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Bob Franken

Let’s bend over backwards to be fair to Newt Gingrich. He contends his comments were misconstrued.

The Washington Post suggested that in warning Democrats they’d pay a huge political price for health care reform he was saying it would be similar to the huge success the Republicans had achieved when they exploited the resentment of bigots and extremists after landmark civil rights legislation passed in the 60′s.

For once, he was right.

Gingrich contends that his observation that Democrats “… will have destroyed their party much as Lyndon Johnson shattered the Democratic Party for 40 years” was not meant to directly address the civil rights laws. It was taken out of context, he insists.

What a pity. Because he would have been right. Not just “right” as in conservative, which he is, of course, but “right” as in correct, which he often is not. This time he would have had things nailed if he didn’t back off the comments that would have accurately described the sorry history of the GOP in the last 40 years or so.

That’s when it made such huge gains by constructing a “Southern Strategy”, which was just the polite term for the politics of racism. It was designed to appeal to the passions of prejudice among the whites who were already riled up over the loss of their precious system of segregation.

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Dan Calabrese

Now that Sarah Palin has done what she said long ago she would do – show up and campaign for John McCain’s re-election to the U.S. Senate – conservative activists are beside themselves trying to come to terms with this seeming head-explosion-inducing event.

True Palin.

An interesting debate has begun on HotAir, with Green Room blogger CK MacLeod arguing that Palin really and truly prefers McCain to his primary challenger, “true conservative” hero J.D. Hayworth, while his colleague, MadisonConservative, argues that if Palin really does prefer McCain (which he seems to doubt), then she isn’t a real conservative.

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Jill Ciminillo

I have to admit that I’m slightly confused by Mitsubishi’s strategy. They have a couple of SUVs. A couple of nondescript sedans. A cute (yes, cute) convertible. And a smoking hot tuner car.

It seems like they’re trying to be a little bit of something to everyone. And from watching other automakers (cough, General Motors), we all know how successful that is. I could kind of get it if I saw a clear purchase path from Evo to Outlander, but I just don’t imagine anyone who would buy one would ever end up in the other.

2010 Mitsubishi Outlander

So, my strategy in reviewing this random lineup is to look at each vehicle individually because, as a standalone product, there’s something nice about pretty much everything Mitsubishi offers. Well, except for the Galant, but that’s another story for another day.

Today, I’m looking at the 2010 Mitsubishi Outlander, which is a pretty comfortable vehicle with a base price of $21,606 for the front-wheel drive (FWD) ES model.

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Bob Franken

For those of us who agree that the attention paid to the attire of women politicians is a subtle form of sexism let’s focus instead on what John McCain was wearing when Sarah Palin appeared with him in Tucson.

His blue blazer and light shirt were the perfect complement to his ruddy complexion…the man is VERY white. The coat reflected the kind of conservatism he likes to convey…sensible.

Looks like she forgot her whip.

But not too sensible. There’s that “Maverick” pose he likes to assume when it serves his purposes. That’s what he was communicating with the open collar. No fuddy duddy tie here. That’s for back in Washington, you know, the Washington he’s never really be been a part of…and never mind that he is always one of the Sunday talk shows’ easiest “gets”.

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Jamie Weinstein

As President Obama is toasted by his liberal base for his historic achievement in ramming a health care bill through Congress, let us remember that calling something a historic achievement does not necessarily denote that it is a positive achievement. In 2006, for instance, Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld had a historic achievement of his own when he presided over record profits for the

Basic law of Economics: Never spend more than you earn.

legendary investment bank. By the end of 2008, Lehman Brothers ceased to exist in large part due to the investments that helped achieve those historic, record profits two years earlier.

While Democrats are celebrating the passage of their health care legislation on a party line vote, they may be dancing on a fiscal grave. The U.S. fiscal situation probably won’t collapse as precipitously as Lehman Brothers did, but it is fair to wonder whether adding another gigantic entitlement to our already precarious budgetary problems is fiscally wise.

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