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Great ballplayers aspire to excel in five categories: hit for average, hit with power, run, catch, and throw. Some of baseball’s biggest names failed at one or more of these baseball basics. Ted Williams’ uneasy relationship with all things defensive is legendary. Rod Carew flirted with .400 more than once, but his power numbers [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Best Of the Web, Campaign 2008, Video at 10:50 AM UTC
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We are beginning to understand why Hillary Clinton “suspended” but did not close her campaign. Barack Obama’s lack of core values is already leading him into a series of embarrassing flip-flops, infuriating his base and encouraging John McCain supporters. Erstwhile Clinton advisor Dick Morris documents 9 such permutations. As average Americans become aware of Obama’s blatant pandering [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Best Of the Web, Campaign 2008, Video at 9:30 AM UTC
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Back in the good old days of 1995, when Republicans controlled both houses of Congress for the first time in anyone’s memory, conservatives began clamoring in earnest for a balanced federal budget. President Nixon submitted the last black-ink account in 1974, and trillions of debt had accumulated since that memorable year. Now was the time, said the newly installed [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as American Dependence, Budgets, Campaign 2008, Government Waste, Health Insurance Debate, Video at 4:35 PM UTC
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Now that gasoline prices have got everyone’s attention, even environmentalists are coming to their senses. “Offshore drilling foes relent,” screamed a Los Angeles Times headline yesterday. Republican Representative James T. Walsh summed up the change of heart nicely by saying, “For years I have argued that we should avoid offshore drilling and tapping into underground [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Energy, Video at 3:22 PM UTC
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There is nothing quite as sweet as catching a blowhard like Al Gore in the act of…how shall we describe it?…extreme hypocrisy. Therefore, we are deeply indebted to The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a “nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through the ideas of liberty,” as its website [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Cultural Insanity, Energy, Fraud Watch, Global Warming, Video at 6:02 PM UTC
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President Bush’s decision to preemptively attack Iraq is proving to be an unmitigated success. Though the going has been much more difficult than anyone envisioned and the cost painfully high, winning in Iraq has tipped the war on terror in our favor. Iraq will never be a haven for terrorists or supply our enemies with weapons [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Media, Video, War in Iraq at 3:34 PM UTC
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Now that 87 octane has topped $4.50 across most of the country, more Americans are becoming aware of the economics of energy. Of course, we are still being lied to about the basic, undeniable reason for the price surge — America’s refusal to harvest its own energy. Democrats led by Barack Obama continue to berate [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Cultural Insanity, Economics, Energy, Video at 1:52 PM UTC
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Overturning decades of legal precedent, a bitterly divided United States Supreme Court today gave aid and comfort to the enemy by declaring unconstitutional a 2006 law stripping “Guantanamo prisoners of the right to file so-called habeas corpus petitions,” reported Bloomberg news today. Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter supported Anthony Kennedy’s [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Judicial Activism, Rule of Law, War on Terror at 2:12 PM UTC
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Newsmax.com is reporting that Hillary Clinton has been added to Barack Obama’s short list of possible running mates. Pardon me for not gasping in surprise. Does anyone seriously believe Obama would dare choose someone other than Hillary? I know the Obama campaign has to make a good showing and will spend the next several days or weeks [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008 at 3:07 PM UTC
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Barack Obama has surpassed the number of delegates necessary to secure the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. His remarkable accomplishment is being celebrated around the world as excitement is building in anticipation of a Democratic sweep in November. Fed up with George W. Bush, the war, and now assaulted by expensive gas, food, and a [...]
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Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Campaign 2008, Video at 3:25 PM UTC
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