Now that the celebrations are over since we “took back” the House of Representatives a stark new reality is taking place in Congress. Rather than cede the “Lame Duck” session the progressives (both Republicans and Democrats) have decided to try to run the table and pass all sorts of legislation. Unfortunately extending the “Bush” tax cuts seems to be pretty low on the legislative agenda.
Brad Thor 
There can be perhaps no more stark example than Charles Rangel (DEMOCRAT – NY) of what is wrong with large government excess perpetrated by bureaucrats who are allowed to spend far too much time in “public service.” After 2½ years of investigations the House Ethics Committee found Charles Rangel (DEMOCRAT – NY) guilty of 11 of 16 charges against him. The charges included:
If you are like me and you shop the bargain bins at book stores, flea markets, and book trains you sometimes come across an older book that catches your eye. Raised Catholic
I have had many occasions recently to travel along Lincoln’s Highway (Rt. 30) on my way to visit Gettysburg. I love the history of the place and have been taken with the majesty of the battlefield for the past ten years and probably haven’t seen every monument yet.
There is this place west of Gettysburg on Route 30 that has this huge rooster that I’ve always admired. When you look at the other statues they are to scale, but that rooster is something else. I have always threatened my wife that I was going to buy that for our yard. It makes me smile every time that I drive by…I don’t know why exactly; it just looks fun. I have probably driven past Desert Flower Wholesale, Inc. at least fifty times and beside my rooster buddy it more or less looked like any other yard monuments store, although tremendously larger.
The United Nations was founded in 1945 against the backdrop of World War II and had lofty goals to ease international disputes, provide security, improve economic development and improve human rights. There are few who would argue against these goals even today, but did the United Nations experiment deliver? It delivered, but not really on any of those promises. Here we are 65 years later and the world has many disputes, security seems to be worse, we are in a severe economic downturn, and the UN is attacking the United States for human rights violations.
I am not sure what the title of Harlan’s book has to do with the story, but his titles are perhaps the greatest in the suspense genre. In Just One Look , housewife Grace Lawson’s life is turned upside down by a photograph that was slipped to her. Her husband disappears, strange characters return from her tragic past, and she feels threatened for her and her children’s safety. Oh and the police don’t seem to want to help. And there is an oriental super villain thrown in for good measure.
Michael Walsh’s 
Now that the dust has settled from the November 2 mid-term elections it is interesting how the left/progressives/liberals/Democrats are behaving. The media has grabbed the horn by the bull and proclaimed that the results were not a repudiation of Obama’s policies by the American people, was not about Obamacare (it is interesting that this label has stuck), was not a victory for the Tea Party, or the American electorate is just too stupid except where favored Democrats were re-elected. So why did the Democrats lose so badly? Some of the themes center around voter stupidity, racism, Obama being too centrist (WTF), and my favorite…Fox News. Scott Spiegel listed the “Top 10 excuses” at NewsRealBlog.
Perhaps the best way to describe this book is to use the blurb from the back cover;
“Only one man can stop them. Code named Devlin, he exists in the blackest shadows of the United States government – operating off the grid as the NSA’s top agent. He’s their most lethal weapon…and their most secret. But someone is trying to draw him out into the open by putting America’s citizens in the crosshairs – and they will continue the slaughter until they get what they want.”
