You Tell Me

A Nation at Risk

Let me share with you a quote.

“If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”

The unbearable cost of discount war.

I don’t personally know anyone who has been directly impacted by our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you told me that such and such acquaintance whom I don’t regularly see has a son or a grandson or a nephew serving, I’d believe you.

It just ain’t happening, Joe.

Remember from Vice President Joe Biden? "The recovery package - everybody's talking about it having - it's over. The truth is, now, we're spending more now, this summer, than we, - I'm calling this the recovery - the summer of recovery."

The ‘Summer of Recovery’ that wasn’t.

On the third Sunday of July, Vice President Joe Biden appeared on ABC’s This Week with Jake Tapper and declared that the summer of 2010 is the Summer of Recovery. Jump ahead five weeks and the front page of this morning’s Dallas Morning News trumpete the story that a “double-dip” recession is increasingly likely. Even [...]

What is to come is epilogue.

Look up the word “epilogue” and one of the definitions you will find says, “the final scene of a play or story that comments on or summarizes the main action.” The word epilogue, thus defined, now applies to the Barack Obama administration.

Ideology is one thing. Results are another.

I read a staggering statistic yesterday. According to former Reagan budget director David Stockman, since the third quarter of 2008, the nation’s gross domestic product has grown at the rate of only $4 billion per month while the federal debt has at the same time grown by $100 billion per month. In other words, federal [...]

Obama’s Unforced Error

When President Theodore Roosevelt coined the term “bully pulpit,” he meant it in the most positive sense. He believed that the presidency was an excellent platform from which to articulate a belief or a position. How unfortunate it is, then, that our current president just wasted a fabulous opportunity to use the bully pulpit to [...]

Mr. President, less will be more.

A Reuters-Ipsos poll just released reveals that an overwhelming 67 percent of Americans believe that President Obama hasn’t devoted enough of his time to creating jobs.

C’mon Joe. It never was going to work.

Click here to listen to the broadcast of You Tell Me on KTBB AM & FM, Friday, July 23, 2010. When you were a kid, did you ever get caught red-handed by your parents and yet try to convince them to ignore their lying eyes? Vice president Joe Biden did that in an exclusive interview [...]

True hypocrite or just another hack playing the race card?

Click here to listen to the broadcast of You Tell Me on KTBB AM & FM, Friday, July 16, 2010. French author and Nobel laureate André Gid said; “The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception; the one who lies with sincerity.” That quote comes to mind in the wake of [...]