Month: October 2012

Republicans Should Embrace Privatization

  When the argument over Social Security and Medicare come up, Democrats will inevitably accuse Republicans of wanting to gut the programs and turn them into vouchers. Then Republicans cower and run away from the argument and slide ever-so-faster towards total insolvency. Republicans cannot stomach the idea of having to argue for privatization for some strange reason. We are supposed to be the party of limited government, yet we have never been successful in actually rolling back the apparatchik of the federal government. I still remember following President Bush’s victory in 2004 and the prospect of getting privatized Social...

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Ships and Bayonets

  “Governor Romney maybe hasn’t spent enough time looking at how our military works. You — you mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets — because the nature of our military’s changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.” President Obama at the 3rd Presidential debate.   As opposed to the President, I have spent a lot of time looking at how our military looks. I served...

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Review of “Hating Breitbart”

  I live in one of the places that screened “Hating Breitbart” on it’s opening weekend so I Fandango’ed me a ticket and went down to see it.  Some of the footage had already been shown at various conservative conferences and private screenings so there weren’t going to be any big surprises for me.   The movie follows the last two years of Andrew Breitbart’s life and gives the viewer the fly-on-the-wall perspective.  Most of what average Americans saw of Andrew was filtered through an MSM camera and editor and was always less than flattering.  But the underlying theme...

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