This month has been the deadliest for US troops in Afghanistan. I really don’t see the point to our continuing a war there. Have we reduced the threat by Al Qaeda against our country? It seems to me that, despite the war in Afghanistan for the last 7+ years now, Al Qaeda has strengthened elsewhere, [...]
No, my cartoon, “Dr. Don Sinus Examines Senator McMaverick,” is NOT referring to Don Imus. I don’t know where people are getting this.
If the Feds take control over the nation’s health care system, and thus enact further massive intrusions into our daily lives, one can predict that they will make mandatory the things that might be bad for us, like vaccines, and make illegal the things that are probably better for us, such as over-the-counter supplements (as [...]
On National Review’s blog, the Corner, today there has been some discussion of how government is just too big, particularly the Federal government, and of how or whether a financial firm (such as Goldman Sachs) can be too big to fail. Mark Steyn refers to the thousand-pages bill that Rep. John Conyers feels he shouldn’t [...]
Jacob Hornberger has this blog about the Pledge of Allegiance. Isn’t President Obama the one who at one particular time wouldn’t say the pledge of Allegiance? In my opinion, it shouldn’t matter if anyone states a pledge, as long as they don’t actually do something that goes against our country. Wait a minute, most of [...]
I was looking forward to upgrading from XP to Windows 7. Now I’m not so sure.
There has been some discussion of the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at his own home for “disorderly conduct,” when he apparently locked himself out on return from a trip to China. It seems to be a case of two people getting carried away in a situation and that, while Gates should [...]
My current cartoon on the homepage at reasonandjest.com has been there for over two weeks, “Goldman Saxophones.” It’s really time consuming keeping up the homepage, and doing these posts, and working on the cartoons, and my columns. I’m still kind of new at all this, and I hope to have the next cartoon up within [...]
In yesterday’s post, I noted that the capital gains tax should not apply to small property owners, and I wanted to clarify that. First, there should be NO capital gains tax, because that’s stealing. Who is the government to demand from someone a cut in whatever profit one might make when selling a property? What [...]
On his Saturday radio show, Glenn Beck was discussing former Treasury Sec. Pat Paulson, I mean, Henry Paulson’s possible conflicts of interest, from his connections with the Federal government and having been a CEO of Goldman Sachs, and the more recent controversies of “waivers,” getting big tax breaks, and, of course, Goldman Sachs’s most profitable [...]
There has been an acceleration towards a complete government takeover of Americans’ health and medical affairs, with a rush in the United States Congress to shove it into law before the August recess. These sweeping proposals of health fascism are pushed by special interest groups, lawyers and lobbyists, and otherwise nudniks, nincompoops and misfits. Here [...]
Wait a minute. Did I just hear Judge Sonia Sotomayor say, “I was for empathy, but now I’m against it.”? And, regarding her “wise latina” remark, “It was a botched joke.”