Quote from ...in a handbasket blog

A very appropriate quote from the blog ...in a handbasket . "Free people can treat each other justly, but they can't make life fai...

Praying to Obama - MORE Scary stuff

The Audacity of Logic: Praying to Obama - Scary stuff So it isn't really praying, but it is praising. You can watch it here . I don'...

Praying to Obama - Scary stuff

Please take a minute to watch this unedited video clip . This clearly shows a "pastor" of unidentified denomination leading a gro...

We Are Doomed

John Derbyshire's new book "We Are Doomed" caught my attention yesterday while surfing the net. While looking into it I stumbl...

The Audacity of Logic: Not Too Smart - Hollywood's Big Mistake Part Deux

The Audacity of Logic: Not Too Smart - Hollywood's Big Mistake And now we have the Roman Polanski situation. Dolley, add Debra Winger an...

Did you ever wonder...

...why President Obama is so hot to get his health care plan through Congress, and the Democrats are even fighting a rule that would allow 7...

Narcissism and the Cult of Personality Part 2

I find that these types of Audacity of Logic posts are the most difficult for me to write and put together, because I am out of my comfort z...

How's That New Sensitive America Working for You Now, World?

After years of unabashed and undeserved Bush hating, the World rejoiced at the election of Obama.  But nine months in I am wondering, How...

Where is the Uproar?

Please, tell me that more people than just my humble self are outraged at the hypocrisy coming out of the People Republic of Massachusetts ....

Did you ever wonder...

...why President Obama doesn't seem to have time to talk to his Commanding General in the field in Afghanistan about the war, doesn'...

Not Too Smart - Hollywood's Big Mistake

Audacity of Logic readers know, we contributors are not so one dimensional that we don't like to pile up on the couch some nights and wa...

Sallie Peake - Round 2

More from Wellford's now infamous mayor. I think it is worthwhile to take some time to read the reader/viewer comments as well. Also, t...

Transparency - Part III

Okay, we are looking for transparency. So I will start by showing some really embarrassing stuff from my home state. SC has been hammered in...

Transparency - Part II

I should have included this earlier, but it can stand on its own. There is one thing that is absolutely transparent in Washington: Nancy Pe...

Transparency

Maybe Obama wants transparency (I am curious to see how he responds to this), but it is obvious not everyone in Congress wants transparency ...

The Audacity of Logic - Obama Declares War on China

With Chinese tires, it's buyer beware . An interesting article to follow up Dolley's post. With nearly twenty years of manufacturing...

Svensmark: “global warming stopped and a cooling is beginning” – “enjoy global warming while it lasts”

Pretty provocative Title to the post, but then this is an interesting topic. I am a huge defender of the environment and keeping it clean. ...

Murtha Speaks "No More Troops for Afghanistan"

The chairman of the House subcommittee in charge of allocating war funding has drawn a line in the sand, saying he opposes any further troop...

Calling Them Out - Jack Murtha

Let's Call them out, shall we?  Today, Audacity of Logic, is calling out Jack Murtha and the 52 other Senators who voted against cutting...

Best Practices - Torte Reform

Missouri's example on Torte Reform is a model the Heath Insurance Reform debate should address.  No matter how much money is given by t...

Did you ever wonder...

...about the irony of President Obama saying he will pay for health care by routing out the fraud and waste in Medicaid and Medicare, but wh...

Did you ever wonder...

...about the hypocrisy of President Obama saying he won’t stop the Attorney General from investigating the CIA, even though seven former hea...

Did you ever wonder...

...why the President had a media blitz this Sunday and appeared on every major news outlet (and one that doesn’t even come close), but didn’...

The Political Might of the Tea Partiers

"Even Elmo can vote yes to something he doesn't have to read !"  I loved that sign.  Americans of ages, races, creeds, parties...

Truth - It is Time to Start Talking Again

Audacity of Logic readers have come to expect critical thinking and logical presentation of facts in all of our commentaries, so let's t...

Crying Wolf - A True Story

My Great Grandmother Cleo was a feisty woman and as a child was particularly mischievous.  She loved to tease and taunt her baby sister, Lul...

Obama's Opinion Sparks a Debate

And it isn't on health care. It isn't on Cap and Trade, global warming, unions, Iran, Iraq, the CIA, or any of the really important ...

To Censure or Not To Censure?

Who cares!!! The political skies have turned very stormy and grey in South Carolina for many pundits. While I do not condone the actions of...

Obama Declares War on China

This is a rant.  This is not the normal, well thought out, poetic prose, that Audacity of Logic readers usually get from a Dolley Madison po...

Where Do We Stand?

In the wake of 9/11, I have been thinking about what it is that actually holds us together as Americans.  We seem to disagree on so much tha...

Silence - How the Main Stream Media are Failing the Country and Themselves

Listen closely - do you hear the crickets chirping?  Yes, that is the main stream media's coverage on such pivotal and critical topics s...

Metaphorical Truth

Recently, I received an email that contained one of those stories that float around cyber space, which no one knows who started, and which ...

Where were you...

when the world stopped turning that September day? I still cry when I hear this song . I remember hearing about it at work. I was so incredu...

The Green Movement - The Marriage of Envirnomentalist and Anarchist

I often try to temper my commentary, in the hopes that I can show the misguided the error of their ways in a civil and logical fashion, but ...

Critical Thinking, Logic, and Brutal Self Examination

I am a thinker. I am a writer. I am a passionate lover of God, Country, and Family. I have an economics degree and have been in the busin...

Obama Address to Schools

If they would have published the transcript last week, maybe more schools would have let their students participate. I could be an a**hole...

Dolley, I agree wholeheartedly...

and would like to add something. Here's the set up. I heard a band of Sunday Morning news show hosts (wish I could remember the network...

Death - Puppies, Kittens, and Children Should be Destroyed!

What a title, huh? Ludicrous, isn't it? Who is against puppies, kittens, and children? Who for that matter is against education and en...

Duty...

is the sublimest word in the English language. - Robert E. Lee Merriam-Webster defines sublime as follows: 1 a : lofty, grand, or exalted i...

The Honor Code

The honor code. A very simple thing. Most colleges have them. At The Citadel it was strictly enforced. Zero tolerance. If found guilty ...

Stick A Fork In Me, I'm Done...

When I was a young boy, my best friend and I were really into World War II and its history. We played army with our wooden guns, military bo...