How Would You Prefer to Remember This Day

Is this Tax Day? Or would you rather remember this as the day Jackie Robinson, the first black man to play in the Major Leagues, made his debut? I say Jackie Robinson.

Whether We Like it or Not, We Should Not Parse a Sentence Just to Criticize the President

"Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower, and when conflicts break out, one way or another, we get pulled into them." - President Barack Obama, at the recent Nuclear Summit.

There is plenty to criticize about President Obama. There is plenty to criticize about his foreign policy. There is plenty to criticize about his national defense policy. There is plenty to criticize about his attitudes of symbolism over substance. There is plenty to criticize about his attitude towards America and the concept that this is an exceptional country. And don't even get me started on how asinine the nuclear summit was in the first place or the trumpeted success in the media.

But the criticism that many have leveled at that first statement, saying that "whether we like it or not" modifies the phrase "we remain a dominant military superpower" rather than modifying "we get pulled into them (conflicts)" is stretching. The credibility of critics will be strained to ideological bickering if we make these kinds of reaches.

Biden Shows How to Really Pitch in and Get Your Skin in the Game

Vice President Joe Biden (D. lala land) showed his civic mindedness in the same manner he usually does, by donating a whopping 1.44% of his income this year to charity in concert with his wife. You may remember that Biden and his wife averaged a staggering $369.00 per year in charitable donations leading into this tax year. I suppose I should give him credit. Clearly he believes government is the only way to support those who can't support themselves. He sure as shit isn't going to do it.

How Long Until They Start Swimming Back

Cubans will often risk the crossing to the United States on little more than a piece of wood to escape the policies and poverty of Cuban Communist dictator Fidel Castro. So what do they think of President Barack Obama's policies? Enough to reject a prominent and beloved member of the Cuban-American community for throwing him a fundraiser. Some are going so far as to say that their going to throw away their old Gloria Estefan CD's after hearing she'd be hosting a $30,400 per plate fundraiser for the Democratic Party while hosting the President.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. - President Ronald Reagan.

A Brief History of Violence

Great movie, even if uber-liberal moron Vigo Mortenson is the star. In any case, check out this article from last December by Michelle Malkin detailing the violence from the left.

America's Past Time: Wasting America's Time

It was bad enough that Congress has been constantly threatening to have hearings on the NCAA Football Division I Bowl Championship hearings since 2005. They also felt the need to hold hearings and spend money producing the Mitchell Report on steroids in baseball. Now, despite all the other things Congress could be wasting time on, it appears some members want to look into the use of smokeless tobacco in Major League Baseball (specifically MLB as it is banned in the minors).

Maybe we should be thankful for the preoccupation with sports, it seems like every time they actually do something, it's harmful.

Today's Recommended Reading

This American Thinker article by Jack Cashill is fascinating. While I've read about the accusations that President Barack Obama wasn't the actual author of "Dreams from My Father" (which always struck me as an odd title given his father left him) or that it was at least co-written by Bill Ayers, it never seemed all that worth exploring. But it's not that beginning portion of this article that I found fascinating. It was the description of his life as an academic. The guy sounds like me possibly with lower LSAT scores (I actually made the 93rd percentile if I remember right) and an inferior writer (yes, I'm no Shakespeare, but I generally get my verb tenses to agree throughout my writing).

What this article does to me, is reinforce the image I had of the President when I saw him speaking at the 2004 Democratic convention. I saw a man who had been bred to stand there, shoved in front of the crowd to look like all polish, but there was nothing underneath but rotten, hollow wood.