tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60530232024-03-07T18:31:56.119-06:00Partisan NewsJunkieInformed observations on the news. Right of Center. Mostly rational... with a touch of semi-hysterical.Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.comBlogger359125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-53583584636125286072011-06-10T20:11:00.000-05:002011-06-10T20:11:51.296-05:00Onward, in a different direction.I am realizing of late that I am spread to thin, over too many social media sites and blogs, and much less effective with my voice than I could be.
I'm going to reflect on that, and remedy it, likely with a new more focused blog elsewhere on Blogger.
Since you are here, stay a while and prowl through my archives of 300+ plus posts on my very first, and in some ways favorite blog.
Start Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-80048232408456402922010-12-29T19:23:00.004-06:002010-12-30T08:16:03.647-06:00A Definitive and Unique Guide to the "Birther" Challenge
Ah, the "Birther" issue. The Obama conspiracy issue that will not, and perhaps cannot, go away.
I've studied it at length, and it took me a while to puzzle it all out. But I have. And, if you'll grab an Hawaiin Ice and buckle in, I can guide you to a unique insight as to why you're wrong about what you think that you know about Birther lore. It takes a while to to unravel this story, but Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-20821178605563424172010-05-21T19:53:00.004-05:002010-05-21T20:05:52.104-05:00On Opposing ReformThis week, in the course of pandering to and appeasing his White House guest - Mexico's President Calderon - President Obama sequentially undermined Arizona's new immigration law and then expressed sympathy for it. It's a misdirected expression of frustration, he said, at America's broken immigration system. He shares that frustration, he assures us, because he wants "Comprehensive Immigration Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-7933227601459413212010-05-17T15:51:00.006-05:002010-05-17T16:49:02.862-05:00on Kagan's Disqualification for SCOTUSI have opined on Twitter that, in my opinion, President Obama's nominee for the SCOTUS vacancy - Elena Kagan - is disqualified for the position by virtue of the reports of her banning military recruiters from campus when she served as Dean of the Harvard Law School. My opinion is my own, and is not formed from Newt Gingrich's similar pronouncements yesterday, or from any partisan website.A Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-20437683011761394472010-05-13T08:03:00.003-05:002010-05-13T08:11:12.464-05:00on Racial Sensitivity at our Borders & the AZ lawsIt's heating up!The issue of the 5 kids who wore American flat t-shirts to a California public schools on Cinco de Mayo is more than a one day news story. It has become emblematic of the general tensions on the border - played out in the tensions in the public schools.The battle is engaged on Twitter and in the blogosphere, with Roger Ebert leading the team critical of the kids wearing the Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-42012450246614637632010-05-02T09:05:00.002-05:002010-05-02T09:20:32.225-05:00THE ONE Continues Slander of Fellow Citizens"Obama Kills at White House Dinner" was the headline I saw this morning. Making jokes at the expense of his fellow citizens in Arizona:"We know what happens in Arizona when you don't have an ID...Adios Amigos."Funny. A knee-slapper. Yucking it up - not like he had to be at an oil spill or anything.Nice, to have the President of the United States undermining federal immigration law - which the Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-23268372648456222082010-05-01T18:25:00.006-05:002010-05-01T19:58:38.324-05:00American Left Outraged over Wrong ThingsThe American political left is outraged - outraged I tell you! - regarding the newly signed Arizona immigration law. But, as usual, they are outraged over the wrong things.The good people of Arizona, in a reasonable attempt to protect themselves against an ongoing criminal invasion of their state that sees 650,000 (probably more) people trespassing there and border chaos and violence that Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-38567961072536597552010-04-29T12:26:00.006-05:002010-04-29T14:49:53.419-05:00Perpetually Outraged Left Overheats on AZ LawFolks. Friends. Let's keep a level head here.There is no more rapidly overheating issue, in an already overheated political season, than that of the recently passed Arizona state law addressing law enforcement responsibilities regarding immigration status. A law which codifies at the state level what already exists at the federal level.Arizona's new law is a reasonable response to an emergency. Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-24673978532402711062010-04-26T22:17:00.004-05:002010-04-26T23:59:07.258-05:00More to SayWow. I see that I haven't posted here in almost a year...It's not that I haven't had anything political to say in that time. I've said plenty! I've just said it elsewhere, becoming addicted to posting on Roger Ebert's Journal. Commenting on a range of political, scientific, and religion issues with an international cast of characters. Holding my own, as the often lone conservative on a Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-1257813114238067632009-07-14T13:12:00.002-05:002009-07-14T13:22:49.608-05:00Confirm SotomayorElections have consequences.One of the very serious consequences is that the President - possibly one that you never agree with ideologically - gets to select Supreme Court nominees. If you want SCOTUS justices that vote the way you would like them too, then get your candidate elected President. It's as simple as that.Obama won. He has selected Judge Sonia Sotamayor for the first vacancy.I'm a Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-86129019707745572622009-06-03T23:56:00.003-05:002009-06-04T00:35:49.093-05:00The Leftist / Media Double Standard on TillerThe media's leftist double-standard in the coverage of Dr. Tiller's murder and in the non-coverage of the Marine recruiter's murder is blatant, but not surprising.Dr. George Tiller was murdered by a single shooter as he attended church Sunday in Kansas. Dr. Tiller is the most notorious abortionist in the country. He performs late-term abortions for cash, some 60,000 viable babies terminated in Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-15892487516043252192009-06-03T23:32:00.002-05:002009-06-03T23:53:58.217-05:00The Dealers Fight BackI was looking for a fight as I was flipping around on the channels tonight. I was thinking UFC, and I was headed for Spike TV. But I found a fight on C-Span that was better.The Congress critters had a table full of witnesses discussing the disolution of dealerships by GM and Chrysler as they go through bailouts and bankruptcy. The CEOs who had announced the closure of dealerships were at the Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-48431216912626709702009-03-02T01:59:00.002-06:002009-03-02T02:10:04.414-06:00With Sebelius Nomination - It's On!Unlike most of the mainstream media, I am not swooning about President Obama's choices for his cabinet. Several seem to me to be remarkably poor choices.Some examples:- Timothy Geithner: a Treasury Secretary who is a tax cheat- Hillary Clinton: a Secretary of State who is indebted to many of the world leaders that she will try to influence, via cash deposits in the Clinton Library Foundation- Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-39128276046241290992009-02-09T19:55:00.002-06:002009-02-09T20:08:19.443-06:00America Mugged by Pelosi and CompanyThere is anger in the land. Oh, yes.And right now it is directed at the $1 Billion "Porkulus" bill, masquerading as a stimulus bill. Pelosi crafted it. President Obama owns it. And the majority of Americans are angry about it.Make no mistake, Americans know when they are being lied to and are being taken advantage of - and we don't like it.It's like the old story of having your car break down on Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-297297789075226722009-01-25T20:05:00.002-06:002009-01-25T20:21:09.512-06:00Obama to KSM: I've Got Your Back, baby!As expected, Barack Obama began his presidency last week with a flurry of Executive Orders, most to reverse Bush policies. Two notable ones:1. E.O.'s to ratchet back the government's aggressive policies against terrorism since 9/11. An order to close the detainee detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Prohibiting aggressive interrogation techniques by the CIA, requiring the use of the Army FieldPartisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-21622567341462406962009-01-21T21:49:00.003-06:002009-01-21T22:01:03.577-06:00Ethical Cognitive DissonanceSo, I'm sitting in the cafeteria at work having lunch. The TV overhead is tuned to Headline News and, inevitably, Barack Obama.Our new President is, on his first day in office, signing Executive Orders to frame out his rules of the road for his Executive Branch. First up: ethics reform. He's bringing change to ethics and transparency, he's saying, so that America can trust it's government Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-76308078356054191482009-01-21T11:20:00.004-06:002009-01-21T11:57:59.867-06:00Consider Me DepressedHave you ever known a teenager, or been one, who not only believed that all of the adults who came before him were irrelevant and stupid and who not only believed that they knew everything but that they invented everything? That they were the first person in the world to ever have experiences?That's the general feeling that I came away from yesterday's inauguration with. President Obama is one ofPartisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-63931700730661776482009-01-20T09:51:00.003-06:002009-01-20T10:20:35.012-06:00Barack will need Jack BauerIn the last few minutes before President Obama takes the oath of office as the 44th president, let me just say:Thank you, President George W. Bush, for keeping our country and my family safe for the last seven years. No one expected, after the horror of 9-11, that we would not be attacked again on U.S. soil during your presidency. No one. And it was not an accident. You were, by necessity, the Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-227239805421309082009-01-13T11:32:00.000-06:002009-01-13T11:34:24.803-06:00Democrats Behaving BadlyWhich Democrat is behaving most egregiously in the last two months:-Rod Blagojevich – Illinois Governor. Caught by U.S. Attorney in a pay-for-play bid to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by PEBO. (President Elect Barack Obama).-U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. Announced that Obama is not implicated in the Blago scandal – even though he’s been taking testimony for years from Tony Rezko, who was Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-58967304083554629992008-12-23T20:07:00.002-06:002008-12-23T20:20:19.818-06:00Surprise! Obama Clears HimselfDo you need any further evidence that journalism is dead in 2008 - totally in the tank for Obama and not doing their jobs - than the coverage today of the Obama Transition Team's meager 5 page report on Obama's dealings with Rod Blagojevich?Have we fallen into a strange parallel universe? On what planet do politicians get to investigate and clear themselves?When Obama has his own lawyer Greg Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-72263897497078354842008-12-09T17:06:00.001-06:002008-12-09T17:31:59.052-06:00It's Not Too Late - Electors - to Elect McCain!Those of you not from Illinois are not prepared for the fallout of today's bombshell news of the FBI arrest of the Govenor of Illinois - Rod Blagojevich.But I am from Illinois, and I know how deep this is going to go. Today is just the tip of the iceberg. Lots of people are going down, including - I predict (and you heard it here first) the highest profile product of Crook County Illinois - Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-39937075158829074942008-11-11T16:56:00.001-06:002008-11-11T17:01:34.835-06:00Scaling BackAs I've said, I've seen this movie before. And I don't want to sit through it again, so I'm tuning out as best I can.The eight years of the Clinton Administration were tough on me, mentally. (As, apparently, the eight years of the Bush Administration were on lefties). I got myself twisted in knots learning all about their misdeeds and trying to convince other people that they were doing bad Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-4767503987774957392008-11-11T16:44:00.000-06:002008-11-11T16:56:16.055-06:00Back in the FightI read today that President-Elect is bent on closing Gitmo when he takes office. Hmmmm. Is that wise?Let me digress a moment.Have you ever watched an old favorite movie and caught something that you had missed before?I had that experience this week. "Saving Private Ryan" - one of my favorites. If you can watch that movie and not get choked up when Tom Hanks - the hero Capt. Miller - is dying on Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-61889022901190059192008-11-11T16:32:00.000-06:002008-11-11T16:44:08.796-06:00My Wildest Obama PredictionIt's fairly easy, if you've been watching his campaign for the last two years, to predict President Obama's action once he takes office.Those pundits who are all offering up their insights that Obama will have to "govern from the center" are fooling themselves. He will pay back the Democrat interests groups right away with a flood of Executive Orders, as all presidents do. The point this time is Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6053023.post-2105947172332632402008-11-11T16:26:00.001-06:002008-11-11T16:32:26.969-06:00Can I Have My Vote Back?Where's John McCain?It's been more than a week since Govenor Sarah Palin, his chosen running mate, came under withering and remorseless fire - from his very own campaign staffers. Anonymous cowardly fire.My expectation would have been that he would publicly defend her, and insist that his former staffers stop it instantly.Isn't he the guy with self-proclaimed righteousness? The guy who would namePartisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14832461794226677081noreply@blogger.com0