No RINO, no BULL
May I Quote You?
Majority Rule! Not!
“Here’s Johnny” Again
Recently, I discovered that one of the cable channels is running half-hour segments from the old “Tonight Show,” presided over for 30-years from 1962-92 by Johnny Carson. The segments include edited sketches and routines from the Carson repertoire, well-known to those of us who were fans, including “Tea Time Movie,” “Aunt Blabby” and “Carnac the Magnificent.”Carson often relied on current events for his material, mainly in his monologues, but also in the more elaborate sketch segments. Now to the key point. In a recent segment I saw, Carson’s punch lines involved an oil spill crisis, high unemployment and trouble in the auto industry. Remember all these shows were taped before May, 1992. As I often am, I’m reminded of a French expression. I can’t say it or write it in French; however, I do know the English translation. ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
Remembering (and longing for) Reagan!
Build it and they will…..subsidize it!
Experiencing Confusion
“DeMinted?”
The Founders: Mere Mortals?
What kind of men were these? Supermen? Well, from earlier interviews with Fleming and my own reading of history, I know the answer is clearly “no.”
Our founders—Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and all the rest were yes—intelligent, gifted and thoughtful men. But…they were men..mortal men. And they were victims of the same frailties that afflict us all.
Arrogance, jealousy, vanity, all the faults with which we struggle, they struggled with as well.
And, if we think this nation has problems today, just think what these guys faced: fighting a revolution while the newly declared nation was divided over whether the fight was worth it. Amazingly, they survived and prevailed.
These brilliant, but flawed, mortal men became immortalized in the pages of our nation’s history.
So, as we celebrate the fourth of July, we might quietly acknowledge that even though our nation’s problems seem intractable today, they are not. And, with the efforts of mortal men and women, we will do what our founders did—survive and prevail.
I Like (M) IKE?
There is a rich tradition of former generals becoming president. The first was George Washington; the most recent was Dwight David Eisenhower, nicknamed “Ike.”
The World War II hero ran and was elected easily in 1952 and 1956. His vice-president was Richard M. Nixon. And his opponent in both elections was Adali (we’re madly for Adali) Stevenson, an Illinois governor who later became the U.N. Ambassador in the Kennedy administration.
As a child during Eisenhower’s first bid for the White House, I used to watch the new TV in our home and take delight in hearing large crowds cheer for Eisenhower. But I soon became deeply disappointed and discouraged. My mother pointed out that I misunderstood what the crowds were shouting. They were saying “I like IKE