Common Sense Politics

 
     The 2006 congressional elections are history….and, they made history! The Democrat Party gained control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 1994 and they also got control of the U.S. Senate by winning the necessary seats. While the final votes are still being counted, i.e., the absentee and provisional ballots, the […]

 
     The day after the election, President Bush acknowledged that he and his party had taken a “thumpin”. The euphoric pronouncements by the pundits on TV and headlines and articles by the writers for most of the major media outlets hailed the results as ‘historic’, ‘the blue wave’, ‘of landslide proportion’ that gave them similar […]

There is only one issue for me as I vote this year: SECURITY! Being retired, I cannot get too excited over issues such as minimum wage, the environment, education, global warming, stem-cell research, etc. Because if we fail to secure and protect this country from our enemies, the Islamic fascist terrorist, nothing else will matter, […]