Why so long? Why has it been since October that this blog has been updated? Well, there are literally thousands of reasons, but only a couple that matter. As I look back over what has happened in this country since then I see a few significant trends. For awhile the only thing ANYONE was talking about was health care reform. The sides were clearly drawn. What could I add to the dialog? The Tea Parties had been held, the left had disparaged them, and the conservative voters fought back in the most appropriate way – they elected a Republican Governor in Virginia, a Republican Governor in New Jersey, and a Republican Senator in Massachusetts – to fill the “Ted Kennedy” seat. The greatest comment made throughout these wonderful episodes was from Scott Brown in one of the Massachusetts debates when he reminded the questioner that he was not seeking to fill the “Teddy Kennedy” seat or even the “Democratic Seat” but the seat that belongs to the people of Massachusetts. Such arrogance from the left.

Then there was Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. Good riddance to 2009. I even had a birthday in there somewhere and had another article published in Contract Management magazine (January issue). And you know what? We got several new subscribers here at the blog and NOT ONE SINGLE COMPLAINT about no postings. We also got no new comments. So I’ve come to the conclusion  that these are my own private musings. If I feel like writing I will. If I have something to say, I will say it. A very wise man once told me that when you have nothing to say, say nothing. And one of my favorite historical figures, Mark Twain remarked that it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

We are turning a corner in this country. We needed Obama and his radical socialism to wake us up. We needed Eric Holder to supplant the Commander in Chief and decide to prosecute the Christmas underwear bomber as a civilian. New York is waking up and telling the feds that there will be no prosecution of Guantanamo terrorists just blocks from the World Trade Center site. Several Democrats are retiring rather than face defeat in the next election (of course – why not retire, they are already entitled to full pay and benefits for life just for serving in a part-time job). And the benefits they get far exceed ANYTHING anyone of you get or will ever get. As Mel Brooks has told us, “It’s good to be king!” Boxer, Pelosi, and Reid (no relation thank God!) are struggling for their political lives. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Those people are totally corrupt.

AARP has sold out its members, and people are discovering that the AMA speaks for very few doctors. Public unions are growing to the point that they now exceed the membership of private unions (those that represent true contributors to society through the capitalistic system). Their attempts at dirty tricks, such as eliminating the secret ballot, are failing. The public sector is growing far too fast to be supported by any level of capitalism, and people who illegally sneak into the United Sates are given more rights than natural born citizens – social security without ever paying into it, welfare without residency, free public school education without paying taxes to support it, and a free college education in several states. While H1B visas for the real contributors to our society lie stagnant in some bureaucrat’s inbox.

There is still much to do. We are piling up debt far too fast. China is buying us by the pound. We have truly mortgaged our children’s and our grandchildren’s future. We must fix that. It will be tough medicine. Obama may still get some of his agenda through, but we must continue to fight for personal liberty and a free society. We must defend our Constitution and the principles of states’ rights which it clearly intends to protect. We must support our troops and stop coddling our enemies. Yes, we have real enemies. We have people in this world who hate our way of life and want to kill us. To me, that makes them our enemies. And as a society it is time to grow up a little more. We are spoiled and feel far too much entitlement to the world’s resources. Europe still has us beat in that respect, but they should not be our model. Their social experiment has failed. We need to grow up on our own and seek reconciliation with our creator. Whenever I have been in a discussion on abortion or stem cell research I offer that we should not do things simply because we can. As a society we are not yet mature enough to know how to handle all the knowledge we have. We are like a 12 year old girl who has new body parts and no idea how to control them rather than let them control her. We simply haven’t matured enough to know how to handle it all. At one point in our history we thought it was OK to own human beings as property. While some treated it as a political issue it wasn’t. It was a moral issue. Thankfully we grew up enough in time to keep our country in one piece – but just barely. Abortion, likewise is not a political issue but a moral one. As is stem cell research. And we do not yet know the answer. We look back at pre-Civil War times and ask, “How could we as a society think that slavery was OK?” No one rationally accepts slavery as proper in any form today. Someday our descendants will look back at us and ask, “How could they have been confused about abortion?”

So please visit when you can. Stumble us. Recruit friends. Link to this site. And offer some thoughts. Even something as simple as “I agree” or “I disagree” at least lets me know that someone is reading. And I will try to have something to say more often. Something worthwhile. Something to make you think. Something that will prompt you to respond.