Nicholas Thimmesch II

First, let me say that I despise Glenn Beck, won’t watch him, won’t listen to him, don’t want to know him, let alone follow him: while he may be a Tea Party/Fox News darling, I think he is bad news for the conservative movement and uses pure hokum to advance himself, as any huckster would. (more)

“You say you want a revolution,” warned John Lennon. Okay: those of us either conservative or Republican (there is a difference) are encouraged if not silently giddy over the prospects of “taking back” our government/nation/way of life from the Democrats. I was there in 1994 when the 104thers were elected, worked as a press secretary for one of them, and actually believed we were going to “change” things in Washington. We didn’t: in some ways, we made things worse. Well, at least Newt ended daily ice delivery to members’ offices. (more)

While watching the most recent episode of “Mad Men,” which focused on a dilemma faced by Roger Sterling (played by the brilliant John Slattery) and Joan Harris (played by that uber-woman and equally brilliant Christina Hendricks) -- Joan’s pregnancy -- it struck me: even though the pro-abortion feminists maliciously swapped the word “abortion” with the word “choice” decades ago, while regulating pro-lifers to “anti-choice” or “anti-abortion,” perhaps the better term would be “pro-decision.” (more)

Coolidge did it, so did Truman, as did Johnson, and to some extent, Nixon sort of did it (“You won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore,” Nixon said after losing a California gubernatorial bid in 1962, though he went on to be elected in near landslides in 1968 and 1972): quit politics. (more)

Well Charlie: you’ve disappointed me, and while I may not be one of your close, personal, friends, I was offering you some friendly advice in my last missive when I urged you to fight these scandalous charges against you from the comfort & safety of The Dominican Republic. (more)

What are we to make of Congressman Charles Rangel now that even President Obama has thrown him “under the bus” (something Obama is expert at doing to anyone inconvenient, so look out Maxine), saying that Rangel should “end his career with dignity”? Perhaps we need to look back to whence Rangel came from, New York’s “Adam Clayton Powell, Junior” Congressional District. (more)

For the time being, it seems the hype and brouhaha over Arizona’s simple legislation recognizing federal immigration laws has subsided: The Reverend Al “Don’t Get Between Me and the Camera” Sharpton has marched (again and again), boycotts have been threatened, though failed for MLB’s All Star Game, and somehow, no reports to date of a family out for ice cream being thrown in the local gulag for not having their “papers.” (more)

If the byzantine “health care reform” legislation put forth by President Obama and his willing accomplices in Congress wound up running more than 2,500 pages, putting to shame the complications of Hillary Clinton’s previous government health care chart—worthy of Rube Goldberg—as well the current U.S. Tax Code (the IRS Web site features this disclaimer, “Finally, the IRC is complex and its sections must be read in the context of the entire code and the court decisions that interpret it.”) then imagine how complicated laws pertaining to the legalization of marijuana are and will be in America. (more)

WASHINGTON—Nothing says that you have arrived more than when you have the POTUS on your side. He specifically makes mention of you as an example and seemingly is going to bat for you: You have surpassed Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame by doing so. (more)

Okay, let’s start with some self disclosure: smoke, yes; alcohol consumption, you bet; weak knees, occasionally; past illicit drug abuse, you betcha; fear of Michelle Obama, who wouldn’t be? (more)

Washington: At the risk of being erroneously labeled a “Libertarian” (capital “L”) or even a “libertarian” (small “l”), let’s get this out of the way: Ron Paul, Ron Paul, Ron Paul. Indeed he did officially if not embarrassingly win the recent CPAC presidential preference poll (what “winners” get booed?”). The only thing that could have been worse would have been Sen. John McCain winning: ugh. (more)