President of the Titanic

President Obama did his best impression of  Captain Edward John Smith of Titanic fame as he addressed the nation in an attempt to salvage his sinking ship known as government-controlled health care.
Your brilliant-blogger watched the speech on CBS because nothing is more entertaining than watching Katie Couric remind everyone that she took the short-bus to [...]

Health Care: It’s Personal

Originally Published in the American Thinker
Emotions are running high in America as the country is entrenched in the debate over health care.  Conventional wisdom dictates that rational thinking must always prevail over irrational judgment that almost always accompanies human emotion.  However, as a victim of child-hood cancer, I can tell you as I live and [...]

Arlen Specter and the Case for Term Limits

President James Madison, considered by many to be the “Father of the Constitution” and author of over a third of the Federalist Papers, wrote that legislators should be “called for the most part from pursuits of a private nature and continued in appointment for a short period of office.” President Abraham Lincoln stated during the Gettysburg Address “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” No honest person would argue that both these presidents were not only brilliant statesman, but also possessed an intellect rarely matched. They would also agree that both men believed wholeheartedly in the importance of a citizen legislature.

But not even these great visionaries could have predicted the level of disdain for the political process as we are witnessing in Pennsylvania today.

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