Todd's Mischief Blog

Though I was unavailable to attend the 50th anniversary commemoration of the 1963 march on Washington D.C. and Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, I did make the point of listening to President Obama's speech delivered at the event, a transcript of which can be found HERE . What follows are my thoughts on the speech and reactions to some of the topics raised.  In the opening, Obama acknowledges that progress has been achieved in civil rights. He names several important historical figures who contributed to that progress and reminds us that to say otherwise would be to say their work was in vain. That's more acknowledgement of progress than we are generally accustomed to. Of course, being black and president forces a few admissions. Still, it puts the lie to the perennial detractors who claim the President speaks as though we are still in the days of dogs and fire hoses. Next, Obama spends some time giving a history lesson on the march of 50 years ago. I...

John McCain demonstrates to Piers Morgan just how much of a doddering old fool he's become. Quote, "I am always intrigued by the fact that when I disagree with my own party leadership, my own president...then I’m a brave maverick. When I’m taking on others, then [I'm] just an angry old man." Mr. McCain, consistent opposition to your own party is a weak form of consistency, especially when you oppose so many disparate ideas. Also, Morgan wasn't patting you on the back, he was playing you for controversy. Diane Feinstein very bizarrely argued at a Senate hearing that it is legal to hunt humans with high-capacity magazines. Quote, "We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it’s legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines." Okay--benefit of the doubt--she obviously misspoke in crafting an ill-conceived parallel. But it's still pretty funny and excellent fodder...

Yes. That is a Stones reference. Since the naming of Paul Ryan as the running mate of GOP Presidential nominee-apparent Mitt Romney, the Anybody-But-Romney crowd has quieted down its protests. It’s about time, considering that his last serious competitor, Newt Gingrich, dropped out of the race in May, and even the ABR crowd can’t get behind holdout Ron Paul. Still, as pleased as they are with the Ryan pick, and the unabashed conservatism he represents, they aren’t singing Mitt’s praises just yet. Oh, they’ve come around in just about every way imaginable. They’ve always praised his business experience. The flip-flopper and gaffe memes have been largely discredited. His lack of foreign policy experience is dismissed by citing the same of Reagan. Likewise, the Tenth Amendment is cited to put aside questionable aspects of his governorship in Massachusetts apart from RomneyCare. And even there, the ABR’s seem to now take Mitt at his word that he intends to do away with ObamaCare and are ev...

by AndrewPrice (originally posted at Commentarama ) I did this before the 2010 election and it’s worth doing again. Below you will find a list of reasons to vote against Obama and the Democrats. Share this with your friends. Post the link on other websites you visit. Don’t let people forget! Here are some of the things the Democrats did over the past two years that you may not have liked: Obama Economic Record • You didn’t build that. • 8-9% unemployment for four solid years, 17% real unemployment. • 5 straight years of trillion dollar deficits. • Adding more to the national debt than all presidents combined. • Hyper Inflation. • Billions wasted on money to “clean energy companies” (read: donors to Obama) who went bankrupt right after getting money, e.g. Solyndra. • Vetoing the Keystone Pipeline. • The trillion dollar union/Democratic-interest-group giveaway known as the Stimulus bill and its dozen sequels. • The trillion dollar Big Bank giveaway know as the TARP, the TALP a...

It looks as if Olympic fever may have gone to Marco Rubio’s head. That’s because, in the name of simplifying the U.S. tax code, the senator from Florida proposes to further complicate it. And he’s making this proposal on the coattails of our Olympic athletes. In brief, Rubio wants to make tax exempt the prize money that the U.S. Olympic Committee awards to medal-winning athletes at the games—prize money that most Americans have been largely unaware of until the good senator proposed his bill . So, what’s a paltry two pages on top of an over 72,000-page tax code? It’s not as though tiny little exemptions are what made it grow complicated and cumbersome. Well, as concise as it is, Rubio’s bill goes directly against the point he is trying to make by introducing it. Said Rubio, “Our tax code is a complicated and burdensome mess that too often punishes success, and the tax imposed on Olympic medal winners is a classic example of this madness…” Um, except it’s not. The fact that our tax co...