Blue Collar Muse

As Stacey Campfield (R - TN 18) notes in his recent post, ‘Easy Money’, under the Bredesen administration, state expenditures in Tennessee have grown from $19 billion in 2002 to 2007’s $28 billion dollar budget buster!. That’s a 32% increase in just 6 years!

Why are secret ballots good for Democrats, yet bad for Unions?

Many of you have, no doubt, read the book by Hal Lindsey - the title of which I swiped for this post. The reason I so titled it is in response to a question I’ve been asking myself for years, “How could the premise of Lindsey’s books come to pass?”

I started out commenting on a Lefty blog which strenuously disagrees with me on my stand that Obama is not my President. A commenter took exception to my contention

Eric Odom passed on this link to a story about a Michigan church service disrupted by Leftist whackjobs with an agenda.

For millions of Americans, the results on November 4th were sad but not surprising. They signaled the failure of an ideology which held power for years, promised much and delivered little.

One of the biggest criticisms of Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign was he was long on empty rhetoric and short on specific plans.

I don’t agree with everything this young man says. But his passion and his general observations make some eloquent statements. Men and women such as this are the future of the Right. Why do I say so? Just one quote …

They are also uneducated, out of step with the rest of the country, to be pitied, isolated, suffering in the area of “jobs, education and development”, ideologically aligned with the old Confederacy, at odds with the values of the rest of the country, and are getting what they deserve because they won’t “… get with the right program.” 

The election was decided just two days ago. It didn’t take long for one of Obama’s most controversial and largely unheralded new programs to hit the news wires.