Scott Walker responds to Obama: You sound a little like a union boss, you know that? « Hot Air

Scott Walker responds to Obama: You sound a little like a union boss, you know that? « Hot Air

Happy President's Day!

Here is the History.com page on President's Day.

Presidents' Day, celebrated each year on the third Monday in February, is a day when Americans honor the legacies of the U.S. presidents. The holiday was established in 1800, when Congress declared February 22–George Washington's birthday–a federal holiday. Still legally known as Washington's Birthday, Presidents' Day has become a day to honor not only Washington, but Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president who was born on February 12, and the lives and accomplishments of all U.S. presidents.

GodSpeed, John Glenn

John Glenn orbits the Earth 49 years this day.

California’s Delta Smelt is Raising Your Food Prices

California’s Delta Smelt is Raising Your Food Prices

A two inch fish bait is ruining our lively hood in the Central Valley!

John Qunicy Adams--Did not like Slavery

His views were uncommonly humane for the major party politician that in a sense he was. This was a man who rejected the comforting notion that the United States was a classless society; who believed, as did few of his male contemporaries, that women in America were denied the equal opportunities that were their due; who, unlike the slaveholding Jackson, believed that slavery was "the great and foul stain upon the North American Union" and that "the Constitution's protection of slavery was intolerable" and that it should be amended. Like his predecessors in the chief executive's office, he believed that the presidential veto was a potentially despotic power that was to be rarely exercised (in accord with Hamilton's promise to this effect in The Federalist ).

From Encyclopedia.com here.

Tom McClintok on the Water in CA

Martin Luther King's speech "I Have A Dream"

I have a Dream Speech

MLK was a Republican

This is world peace!

What is Constitutionalism?

From Charles Krauthammer here:

Call it constitutionalism. In essence, constitutionalism is the intellectual counterpart and spiritual progeny of the "originalism" movement in jurisprudence. Judicial "originalists" (led by Antonin Scalia and other notable conservative jurists) insist that legal interpretation be bound by the text of the Constitution as understood by those who wrote it and their contemporaries. Originalism has grown to become the major challenger to the liberal "living Constitution" school, under which high courts are channelers of the spirit of the age, free to create new constitutional principles accordingly.

What originalism is to jurisprudence, constitutionalism is to governance: a call for restraint rooted in constitutional text. Constitutionalism as a political philosophy represents a reformed, self-regulating conservatism that bases its call for minimalist government - for reining in the willfulness of presidents and legislatures - in the words and meaning of the Constitution.

Hand over the gavel!

Baker Street

Windin' your way down on Baker Street
Light in your head and dead on your feet
Well another crazy day
You'll drink the night away
And forget about everything
This city desert makes you feel so cold.
It's got so many people but it's got no soul
And it's taking you so long
To find out you were wrong
When you thought it had everything

You used to think that it was so easy
You used to say that it was so easy
But you're tryin'
You're tryin' now
Another year and then you'll be happy
Just one more year and then you'll be happy
But you're cryin'
You're cryin' now

Way down the street there's a lad in his place
He opens the door he's got that look on his face
And he asks you where you've been
You tell him who you've seen
And you talk about anything

He's got this dream about buyin' some land
He's gonna give up the booze and the one night stands
And then he'll settle down there's a quiet little town
And forget about everything

But you know he'll always keep movin'
You know he's never gonna stop movin
Cus he's rollin'
He's the rollin' stone

And when you wake up it's a new mornin'
The sun is shinin' it's a new morning
You're goin'
You're goin' home.

RIP Gerry Rafferty

Dealing with autism one challenge at a time | StAugustine.com

"It comes down to dads being dads and moms being moms. Children that happen to have autism are first and foremost children. These challenges you handle one at a time and at a different pace than typical children. It is still the same. We have two healthy and happy kids in every way except they have autism," she said.

Dealing with autism one challenge at a time | StAugustine.com

Turn the Water on in Central CA Valley!

My one New Years wish is to turn the water back on so the Central Valley can grow crops again. It will bring the jobs back and lower our food bill. I'm with Sarah Palin. The Snail Darter is a two inch fish bait. That's it get the jobs going again and get California back to work. Hear that Congress, get the water turned back ON!

It's going to the forbidden closet!

Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad

Protect our children from hate

Iconic Steve Jobs