Category Archives: President

Reason and Rights Republicans? To Be or Not To Be; That is the Question

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Jim

Recently, Ari Armstrong recommended joining the Republican Party as a Reason and Rights Republican, which he called the ONLY solution for participation in party politics. Armstrong is a serious thinker and experienced political activist. However, Selfish Citizenship disagrees with his … Continue reading →

Posted in Election, History, Political Discussions, Uncategorized | Tagged American Capitalist Party, Andrew Berstein, Ari Armstrong, Dick Black, Donald Trump, Freedom Party, Gary Johnson, LBJ, Libertarian Party, Nicholas Provenzo, OCON, Paul McKeever, PRODOS, Republican Party, Robert Marshall, Robert Metz, Robert Vaugh | 1 Comment

ObamaCare’s Website: I Didn’t Build That (a confession)

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Jim

Given recent news about the significant failures in ObamaCare’s website, I have a disclosure to make about my contribution to that event; literally, I shrugged. Usually, I cannot discuss specifics about what I am doing professionally; but in this case, … Continue reading →

Posted in President | Tagged Barack Obama, CGI, healthcare, Individual Rights, individual vs. the collective, ObamaCare, sanction of the victim | Leave a comment

Obama is Brer Donkey’s Tar Baby

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Jim

As part of the Obama Administration’s attack upon free speech (see IRS scandal), Obama partisans smear as racist anyone who disagrees with what our President reads from the teleprompter. In doing so, they forget the story of the boy who … Continue reading →

Posted in Congress, Political Discussions, President | Tagged Barack Obama, Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit, Disney, George Allen, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, ObamaCare, Songs of the South, tar baby | Leave a comment

Daniel Pipes Recommends US Actively Prop Up a Failing and Unrepentant State Sponsor of Terrorism, Assad’s Syria

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Jim

Somehow, Daniel Pipes must have come to the conclusion that there are bad terrorists and worse terrorists, so we should be friends with the bad ones. Last month, Pipes shifted his recommendation of neutrality in the Syrian civil war to … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign Policy | Tagged American interests, Assad, Barack Obama, civil war, Daniel Pipes, Islamism, Libya, oil, Phil Sheridan, Syria, terrorism, WMD | Leave a comment

The Federal Sequester Has Delayed Your Life and Cancelled Your Flight

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Jim

Today the FAA began its sequester furloughs with a resulting rash of flight delays, especially in NYC and DC. I became aware of the issue when a coworker was trapped in New York and we did not know when to … Continue reading →

Posted in Congress, President | Tagged air traffic controllers, Barack Obama, deficit reduction, economic regulation, FAA, privatization, sequester, tax reform | Leave a comment

Top 10 Books for Selfish Citizens, 1st Quarter 2013

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Jim

The following are the top 10 books for January – March 2013 as identified by the readers of Selfish Citizenship. The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism is the World Economy’s Only Hope by John A. … Continue reading →

Posted in History, President | Tagged Andrew Jackson, Aristotle, Benjamin Franklin, Cox and Forkum, Douglas MacArthur, financial crisis, Harry Truman, John Allison, neoconservative, Thomas Jefferson, William Manchester | Leave a comment

President Truman vs. General MacArthur: An Administration Not on the Same Page

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Jim

The Korean conflict between President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur has been framed in history by the partisans of Truman as a case of the commander-in-chief replacing an insubordinate general. However, the full context is not only more … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign Policy, History, President | Tagged civilian control of the military, Containment, Dean Acheson, Douglas MacArthur, George Marshall, Harry Truman, Korean War, leadership, North Korea, South Korea | 4 Comments

President Truman vs. General MacArthur: Unprincipled Policies Lead to Serial SNAFUs

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Jim

Posted in Foreign Policy, History, President | Tagged April Glaspie, Chicoms, China, civilian control of the military, Containment, Douglas MacArthur, elections, Formosa, Harry Truman, Indo-China, Iraq, Korean War, leadership, Mali, North Korea, Saddam Hussein, South Korea, Sudan, Taiwan, Uganda, Vietnam | 5 Comments

Obama Kills an American Traitor: Al-Awlaki Revisited

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Jim

In light of Senator Rand Paul’s recent jawfest on the Senate floor, now would be a good time to revive something that I wrote in Oct. 2011 following Anwar al-Awlaki’s death by drone strike: In addition to just praise for … Continue reading →

Posted in President | Tagged 9/11, al Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Barack Obama, Gary Johnson, Rand Paul, Ron Paul | 1 Comment

NJ Gov. Christie Evades Government Spending in Union Giveaway

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Jim

Bloomberg reports that New Jersey’s unfunded public employee pension liability increased by $5.5 in 2012, which is a 13% increase in the states total unfunded pension liability. As I have written before in the case of Obama’s $761.5 billion accounting … Continue reading →

Posted in Election, Political Discussions | Tagged Barack Obama, Bloomberg, Bosch Fawstin, Chris Christie, corruption, debt, debt ceiling, deficit hawk, deficit reduction, deficits, Elise Young, New Jersey, pensions, public employee unions, Terrance Dopp, unfunded liabilities | Leave a comment