Often I write about how we are pieces of a movement that enriches the world. It’s the ‘Merican way. If you do your genealogy, you know that. Many Americans have enriched the world through medical research, industrial research and computer research among other ways. What do I mean?
Well, ours is the country large enough and [...]
Who was it that said, “Communism always works when you have enough cement blocks to build walls and guns to shoot people who climb over those walls”?
I noticed that the new US health bill provides for 16,000 additional IRS agents. I wonder how well they shoot?
God help us!
As I was writing yesterday’s post to this blog, I wondered who would be upset when my book, The Insider comes out. This is the actual story of NASA’s man who spent nine years flying into and out of the USSR during the Space Race and the Cold War. He was a space medicine scientist [...]
Tagged CIA, Cold War, John Kennedy, Khrushchev, Lend Lease, Lyndon Johnson, NASA, NSA, Richard Nixon, Russian, Space RaceIn my forthcoming book, Ploughshares into Swords, I tell how a Colonel in the US Army visited Belgium at the end of WWII. At an inn an old Belgian man wanted permission to kiss the colonel because the American Army had save Belgium not once but twice from the German horde. “American chickens had [...]
Tagged Barack Obama, Belgium, Black Church, Chickens, Cold War, Election 2008, Jeremiah Wright, WWIIThere are a few accurate historians who noticed that Franklin D. Roosevelt brought with him the seeds of the Nation’s economic destruction in 1932. That is, businessmen and investors distrusted him, and rightly so. He had decidedly socialist leanings in a time of world socialism. Thus, his policies continued the breadth and depth of [...]
Tagged Economics, Election, Great Depression, History, Investment, Keynes, Obama, RooseveltToday the House failed to get behind a proposed rescue bill for the financial industry. Some call it a bail-out. Banks have failed. They probably would have failed anyway. At any rate I am hearing that the American people do not want the House Bill. A significant number of Democrats and Republicans would not vote [...]
Tagged Bailout, Banks, Congress, House Bill, Pelosi, Speaker of the House, Supreme CourtHaving just returned from the gas pump where I paid about $4.00 a gallon for gasoline, I began to think about the various PACs, Political Action Committees that are responsible for such high prices. I thought of three PACS right away:
Pompous Asses in Congress who will not let us drill for our own oil.
Previous Administration [...]
Tagged Alaskan oil, atomic energy, Drilling for oil, Offshore oil, Oil, PAC, Senate politics, SenatorsAlmost no one knows today that the space race with the USSR during Cold War conditions was not much of a race. NASA had a man stationed in the Soviet Baikonur Cosmodrome from about 1963 through 1971.
NASA’s man was a space medicine scientist whom Premier Khrushchev allowed to enter the USSR to consult with [...]
It was in the 1959-1960 period that John Fitzgerald Kennedy was running for president. He was handsome, charming, humorous, and well-spoken. Yet, some folks were deeply concerned about JFK. What was their concern? Well, he has a Catholic, and a Catholic had never been in the Oval Office before. Didn’t it stand to reason that [...]
In an amazing “mine is bigger than yours” battle, the Bush administration lost its Justice Department’s leader, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. He seemed like a decent man if a bit confused. I would prefer him to Janet Reno. But he had two major problems.
One of Alberto’s problems was that he was Hispanic. Hispanics in prominent [...]