Another Idea For Federal (or State) Legislative Reform: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) At sundry times and in divers manner your host has written on the issue of legislative reform in the context of major movements underlying the foundational presuppositions of this endeavour as o...

Michael Steele Gives His First Interview as RNC Chairman My comments made offhand in various forums on this matter will clarify my own view on this event so I post them here for your consideration from an interactive chat thread with various friends: [I] n light of the election of Steele to RNC chai...

Miscellaneous Threads Worth Noting: Two quick ones while we are in the mood... Illinois House Votes to Impeach Blagovich You read that right: In a dramatic display of anger and solidarity over a political scandal that has made Illinois a national laughingstock, lawmakers on Friday voted 114-1 to imp...

RNC draft rips Bush's bailouts Just a taste before we comment... Republican Party officials say they will try next month to pass a resolution accusing President Bush and congressional Republican leaders of embracing "socialism," underscoring deep dissension within the party at the end of Mr. Bush's ...

On the Palestinians and Israel: One nice thing about gmail is it has email and chat archives which (like the archives of this weblog) are very helpful in reminding your host of arguments made, positions taken, or predictions prognosticated upon in years past.{1} With the current response by Israel t...

"Rider Reform Revisited" Dept. I noted in the immediate aftermath of the election{1} that I was thinking of revisiting two initiative ideas I had gone over to varying degrees of depth over the years. However, I wanted to make sure I finished and published my musings on the election which were comple...

Camille Paglia on various issues (Salon Magazine) Though she and I often disagree, I have often found Camille Paglia to be an interesting and provocative read. On the above thread, she covers: --The subject of President Obama's pledge of federal money for infrastructure repairs which she applauds as...

On How To Approach the Presidential Election Results of 2008 and Analyzing the Political Trends for 2008 and Beyond: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) As we announced in a previous posting, certain exceptions notwithstanding and at our discretion{1}, this is the only posting we inten...

Revisiting the Subject of the Underlying Weltanschauung of "Language Control": (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) [Prefatory Note: I decided to handle this matter in its own posting so it does not make my planned election commentary any longer than necessary.] I have discussed this su...

Miscellaneous Musings: It seems appropriate to note before the tide of the msm orgasms about how thanks to the election that we are about to be "led out of Egypt" and to a "land flowing with milk and honey" precisely what sort of failed policies have been promoted under the banner of "change." One i...