Archive for May, 2009

Your Tax Dollars at Work(ing girls)

May 27th, 2009 – 9:50 am Posted by Ronald A. Rowe
Tagged as: Congress

The Federal government is using 2.6 million of your tax dollars to fund a study to find out why Chinese prostitutes drink so much. Really. I’m not kidding. I know that $2.6 million is peanuts in the scheme of the federal budget, but it’s not nothing. Nothing, it so turns out, [...]

Me & the Prez vs the ACLU

May 19th, 2009 – 10:03 am Posted by Ronald A. Rowe

I am unaccustomed to agreeing with our current president. Not because I’m a partisan or a bigot or an obstructionist. I just find that we disagree on virtually everything, from smoking (he does, I don’t) to abortion (he wants to make it even more widely available, I don’t) to the division of powers [...]

Fly Over Fallout

May 12th, 2009 – 9:05 am Posted by Ronald A. Rowe

Remember the Air Force One fly over of New York City that caused such a ruckus a few weeks back? Well, don”t hold your breath waiting for those stunning photos of Air Force One against the backdrop of the Statue of Liberty to be released any time soon. The Publicist in Chief has [...]

Arlen Specter – Traitor, Patriot, or Opportunist?

May 5th, 2009 – 10:07 am Posted by Ronald A. Rowe
Tagged as: Congress

This week Senator Arlen Specter, after serving for the last 29 years as a Republican, switched his party affiliation to the Democratic Party. The question is: why? His assertion is that he has remained constant while everyone else in the Republican Party has moved steadily to the Right so that his ideals are [...]