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Dr. Bernard Brodie, military thinker, author, and UCLA professor, offered that “war without a political purpose is killing for killing’s sake,” an aphorism demonstrated most cruelly in World War I. To this day, students of the Great War cannot pin down its cause, noting that the carnage of Verdun, the Somme, Passchendaele and two or three dozen more [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Military, Politics, Video at 4:34 PM UTC
Once touted as the be all and end all of America’s energy woes, ethanol is proving to be an environmental, safety, and philanthropic bust. What are the problems with ethanol? How long have you got?
First, producing ethanol actually uses more energy than exists in the ethanol, resulting in a net energy loss. If that sounds counterproductive, welcome [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Economics, Energy, Politics, Video at 5:59 PM UTC
Conservatives have lost their champion. Rightly credited with founding the modern conservative movement, William F. Buckley Jr. remained its foremost representative until his death Wednesday at the age of 82.
For more than fifty years Buckley rallied intellectuals and average Americans to the cause of individual liberty and limited government. Unequalled as a thinker and debater, Buckley’s presentations on his [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as People of Note at 7:30 PM UTC
After a night of drinking and dancing at a Garden Grove bar, Richard Ramirez lured a female acquaintance to an alley behind the establishment, where he raped, sodomized, and stabbed his victim 19 times, leaving her to bleed to death. Ramirez was arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to death. A prosecution witness testified “that Ramirez had [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Death Penalty, Video at 1:14 PM UTC
For decades Republicans accused Democrats of being the party of “tax and spend,” a derisive epithet employed most successfully by Ronald Reagan during his presidential campaign in 1980. Handily ousting incumbent Jimmy Carter, the Great Communicator promised to reduce taxes and spending and usher in an era of limited government. Conservative Republicans and Libertarians swooned.
Of course, all [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Budgets, Campaign 2008, Politics, Video at 2:24 PM UTC
First, I was for Tom Tancredo. When “Send ‘em home Tom” failed to attract more than three voters in any one county, I switched to Rudy Giuliani. Rudy – God bless him — decided that not running in the eight contests before Florida was a winning formula. He was right; his opponents won hands down. So, I [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Media, Politics, Video at 3:31 PM UTC
Many liberals still haven’t gotten over the turbulent Floridian exercise in democracy, no matter how many studies prove Bush won the 2000 election fair and square. Remaining unknown is whether that event alone is responsible for the invective directed at President Bush, a record setting onslaught, both in intensity and quantity. Other contributing factors could be his religion, [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Media at 2:23 PM UTC
Profound, clever, or merely funny, some spits of language should be preserved:
February 6, 2009: How much is a trillion dollars? Republican Senator Mitch McConnell helps us understand: “If you started the day Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 million every day since then, you still wouldn’t have spent $1 trillion.”
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“I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Quips and Quotes at 11:53 AM UTC
Writing for the McClatchy-Tribune News Service, Sheryl McCarthy advocates support for Senator Barack Obama in an op-ed piece titled “Reefer Sanity?” As you might guess from the headline, Ms. McCarthy doesn’t champion Barack because he has vowed to get us out of Iraq, or because of his social policies, or because he will change America. Unlike Maureen [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Politics at 5:19 PM UTC
President Bush has sent to Congress the first budget in world history proposing expenditures exceeding $3 trillion in a twelve-month period. If you are like me, numbers with that many zeros are relatively meaningless: $1,000,000,000,000 = $1 trillion. Yawn. So, here’s another way to understand Federal spending. Every second of every day, the Feds disperse $100,000, give or [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Budgets, Economics, Military at 3:16 PM UTC