The Independent Rage

(Link below). Having waited now for months for Obama to explain to the American people exactly what the objective and plan are in Afghanista...

I have to say I love how the far right and far left pundits and blogosphere have for weeks now been pointing to this obscure provision and t...

...which is really saying something, trust me. I'm just in the early stages of looking at this, but on its face it may be much more conc...

Forty-four U.S. troops have been killed in Afghanistan in both July and August (link below). The American left continues to run for the hil...

[As sent tonight to his congressional website:] Dear Congressman Moore, Your lack of courage to listen to and face the opponents of the heal...

During this politically historic August in which many congressional dems have been hiding in caves (including my representative, Dennis Moor...

"Hookah bars" have become quite the rage with the 18-20 year old set these days (hit first link below for story/second link for mu...

The news came down about 30 minutes ago that Ted Kennedy has passed away. I agreed with few of his viewpoints over the years ("the libe...

Fidel Castro is on the same page with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, New York Governor David Paterson and other dems on the viewpoint that anyo...

I realize my initial blog post regarding their restaurant was a bit over-the-top (hey, you dudes that know me know that I tend to roll that...

That's the lead item on Politico.com today (link below), detailing a number of the over-the-top statements made in August by lawmakers ...

Tonight I'm not going to go through my usual recitation of U.S. deaths, troop escalations, etc., in Afghanistan. You guys and gals can ...

Recently when a friend was pulling through a Taco Bueno drive-thru, I was asked if I wanted to order something. I follow a very low saturate...

Those were the words this week of Rep. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) in reference to the vocal opposition he has seen at townhall meetings to Obama ...

The republicans may be the "Party of No" (a moniker that at times has some truth, other times not), but democrats represent an equ...

When in doubt, I suppose, if you can't blame Bush, then blame a vast right-wing conspiracy (just like Hillary did in 1993-94). Today Ob...

As reported today at Politico.com (link below), the results of new Pew Research Center polling show that only 49% of Americans hold a favora...

Newspaper columnist and television political pundit Bob Novak died today at age 78. He was known to be in very bad health for months now. I ...

As I said yesterday, let's see what Monday brings with respect to this whole "White House prepared to drop public option" stor...

Talk about retreat on multiple fronts. Today, in addition to apparently pulling the plug on its push for the inclusion of a "public opt...

"White House appears ready to drop 'public option'" from the health care reform bill (link below). Oh my, the far left mus...

Obama said Friday: "I know there's been a lot of attention paid to some of the town hall meetings that are going on around the cou...

Woodstock. Sure, there were major sanitation and facility problems, drug use, equipment failures, etc. But it was the Zenith event of that ...

They had it right at first. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), who obviously disagree on Obama & The Dems' ...