Ach! Germany! Can We Try a German Spring?

  I can be grumpy in the morning. This Tuesday, for instance. I tried out an idea on my friend Dan Lynch on AM580 KUBC in western Colorado. What if we overthrew the government of the European Union dominating nation of Germany? -- again? Could we finally end the Scourge of Jerk that country has been in the world ever since our own country began? Now we have Angela Merkel trying to shame President Trump … [Read more...]

40 Days with Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Subscribe with Me?

He may have been given us even more for the 21st Century than for the 20th. I remember reading his book, as vital here and now as it was in Germany in 1937, The Cost of Discipleship. I caught it in snippets riding busses and el-trains back and forth from northwest Chicago to Oak Park. At twenty-three, I was fresh out of school and trying to make a living during the post-Carter recession, trying my hand at the … [Read more...]

Germany Exposes Obama – Well, up to the Ankles

Germany to Obama: Your Idea is Stupid – Would Threaten AAA Sovereign Debt Limits Maggie's Notebook This is exactly what Chris Christie was talking about in the foreign policy portion of his speech at the Reagan Library. The Obama administration can’t take care of the business of the United States, and isn’t respected for telling others how to handle theirs. The Telegraph (read the entire story … [Read more...]

Super Congress: Echoes of Tyranny Rising

NoisyRoom   And now for something completely the same... In the "those who won't learn from history, are doomed to repeat it" department, I give you a quote from the National Center for Constitutional Studies: America's Founders had just declared themselves free of a tyrannical government. They were determined that such tyranny would never be repeated in this land. Their new charter of government - the … [Read more...]

Aerial Bombing, No Longer an Act of War

NoisyRoom Welcome to a whole string of kinetic military actions employed through the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine of the Obama Administration. You know, where aerial bombing of a country is no longer considered an act of war. It's humanitarian don'tcha know... And Congress is now totally useless in fact and deed. The official deadline for the War Powers Resolution came and went with minor protests and … [Read more...]