Tag Archives: Barack Obama

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

Chewing Obama’s Syria Speech, a DIM view

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Jim

Let’s chew President Obama 9/10/2013 speech regarding his advocacy for a US military strike against Syria. The transcript used is from The Washington Post. I will interject my own commentary throughout our President’s text, which begins: My fellow Americans, tonight … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, chemical weapons, commander-in-chief, congressional war power, declaration of war, DIM Hypothesis, Leonard Peikoff, Syria, War Powers Act, WMD | Leave a comment

Obama vs. America’s Post War Dream

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Jim

Tell me true Tell me why was America sacrificed? Was it for this that our patriots died? Was it you? Was it me? Did I watch too much TV? Is that a hint of accusation in your eyes? If it … Continue reading →

Posted in Political Discussions | Tagged Apple, Barack Obama, China, Foxconn, Margaret Thatcher, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, suicide, Syria, The Final Cut, war powers | Leave a comment

Is the Great Recession really over?

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Jim

I did not realize that we are many years into President Obama’s economic boom times. Reportedly, the Great Recession ended only a couple months after our President took office, but that must be former President Bush’s fault. Yet, to me, … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Questions | Tagged Barack Obama, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Commerce Department, debt, deficits, GDP, George W. Bush, Great Recession, John Allison, National Bureau of Economic Research, recession | 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

Question 9: Why be a selfish citizen?

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Jim

Much of the search traffic to this site involves a combination of terms that include selfish. Today, someone was looking for the “Top 10 Selfish Politicians”; limited to current politicians, I am at a loss to come up with 10. … Continue reading →

Posted in Political Discussions | Tagged Ayn Rand, Barack Obama, Freedom Party, freedom party of ontario, orgy of sacrifice, Paul McKeever, sacrifice, selfish, selfishness, The Virtue of Selfishness | 1 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

Chewing an Echo of What Passes for Thought on ObamaCare

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Jim

The other day I posted a link to Reddit to iOpposeObamaCare with its announcement for an activism opportunity on Saturday, March 22, 2013…the third anniversary of the corrupt ObamaCare law. In comments, the following was posted, and I thought its … Continue reading →

Posted in Political Discussions | Tagged Barack Obama, health care, honesty, Independence, justice, ObamaCare, Virtue | 4 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