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The Penny Drops »

By CRAIG DELLA PENNA on Aug 11, 2009 in Current Affairs | 72 Comments

“The Health Insurers Have Already Won” reads the Business Week title. Go here for article. “Is Obama Punking Us?” reads the title of Frank Rich’s column in the NYT. Go here for article and please see Ani’s post here for a more in-depth look at Rich’s column. Rich actually has an epiphany: “The larger fear [...]

ObamaBots Anonymous »

By CRAIG DELLA PENNA on Mar 11, 2009 in Current Affairs | 75 Comments

I think it’s time to start preparing to ease the Obamabots back into the real world. The signs are starting to appear here and there, like signs of Spring. Living, as I do, in The People’s Republic of Portland (Hawthorne Soviet, Richmond Collective) I’ve been in the thick of Obamabot zombieland. During the primaries there [...]

Ragnarök »

By CRAIG DELLA PENNA on Oct 17, 2008 in Current Affairs | 87 Comments

Ragnarök – the world tree, Yggdrasil uprooted, the road to Hel opened, the Bifrost bridge destroyed and Asgard forever rent asunder from us, Jörmungandr, the Midgard serpent bound around the world – writhes free, Fenris breaks his mighty chains and Garm, the Helhound is loosed at last. Heimdall sounds his horn as the Aesir assemble [...]

A Little Light Reading »

By CRAIG DELLA PENNA on Sep 14, 2008 in Current Affairs | 135 Comments

A young colleague asked me to draw up a list of books I liked… he had no idea what he was in for. Great Books and Shows I don’t know your level of intellectual involvement, so I’m going from the ground up – no insult intended Cultural Classics The Iliad & The Odyssey Get the [...]

A Distant Sound of Thunder »

By CRAIG DELLA PENNA on Aug 29, 2008 in Current Affairs | 204 Comments

In the old, old days before the cities and the highways, before the smokestacks and the chimneys, before we knew the sea and the sun, the sky and the stars for what they truly are – even in those ancient days – we knew what leadership was and we know it still. We feel its [...]

Red Dirt Talk – Part 4, the Conclusions »

By CRAIG DELLA PENNA on Jul 6, 2008 in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Supreme Court | 95 Comments

Previously in this series: “Red Dirt Talk – Part 1, the Setup,” Red Dirt Talk – Part 2, the Positions,” and “Red Dirt Talk – Part 3, the Positions (2).” Choices to Make: Ok, we’ve set the stage, How does it play out for the presumptive candidates? Obama For BHO, this is The Land of [...]

Red Dirt Talk – Part 3, the Positions (2) »

By CRAIG DELLA PENNA on Jul 2, 2008 in Barack Obama, Economy, Health Care, Hillary Clinton, Immigration Reform, Nuclear Power, Supreme Court | 196 Comments

Previously in this series: “Red Dirt Talk – Part 1, the Setup” and Red Dirt Talk – Part 2, the Positions.” Health Policy Obama Quality, Affordable and Portable Coverage for All Lower Costs by Modernizing The U.S. Health Care System See Economic policy and advisors, above. This one’s been gone over so many times that [...]

Red Dirt Talk – Part 2, the Positions (1) »

By CRAIG DELLA PENNA on Jun 30, 2008 in Barack Obama, John McCain | 84 Comments

Note: All text in blue is taken directly from the candidates’ websites. Foreign Policy Obama Ending the War in Iraq Iran Renewing American Diplomacy Nuclear Weapons Building a 21st Century Military Bipartisanship and Openness Foreign policy is not BHO’s strong suit. He has trouble remembering how many states there are in the US, not to [...]

Red Dirt Talk – Part 1, the Setup »

By CRAIG DELLA PENNA on Jun 29, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bolshevikization, Bush/Cheney, David Axelrod, Democratic Party, Electability, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, John McCain, Nancy Pelosi, Obama's Thugs | 225 Comments

So it looks like Hillary and Bill, kinda, are going to be good Democrats and try to lead the Unity Donkey down the garden path. A lot of folks will sigh “Oh well, we tried.” and trudge back into line because they been told (and so they believe) that Obama is the lesser of two [...]

Speaking with Dragons »

By CRAIG DELLA PENNA on Jun 7, 2008 in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton | 507 Comments

When speaking with dragons, it is wise to know the names of things. True names have great power and if you know the dragon’s name… I’ve been sitting back, these last few days, watching the dust settle and seeing all the old song and dance routines, the familiar pressures brought to bear in the name [...]

The Covenant They Made »

By CRAIG DELLA PENNA on Jun 1, 2008 in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, DNC, Delegates, Democratic National Convention, Democrats, Hillary Clinton | 30 Comments

Hmmm… let’s see if I understand this: The Democratic Party is just sick of li’l ol Iowa and New Hampshire stealing the spotlight for all those months of pre-primary campaigning. After all, these puny states have only a relatively few delegates between them and their population is only tiny percentage of the Democratic voters. So, [...]

The Moment of Truth »

By CRAIG DELLA PENNA on May 29, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Current Affairs, DNC, Democracy, Democratic National Convention, Democrats, Hillary Clinton | 293 Comments

TO HILLARY AND BILL CLINTON: I have written to you before and I post regularly on my journal: The Heraclitan Fire and at No Quarter It seems to me that the fix is in, I think that Mr. Obama has already been chosen by the Democratic party ‘elders’ as their nominee. You know that this [...]

Obama’s Foreign Policy Tragi-Comedy »

By CRAIG DELLA PENNA on May 28, 2008 in Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy | 73 Comments

Thanks to V for the video discussion. Recent events surrounding some of Sen. Obama’s advisors, especially Greg Craig, have prompted many of us to take a closer look into what substance (in any) there might be to Obama’s pronouncements about his ‘transformational’ foreign policy initiatives. First, we should take a look at the advisors he [...]

To the Hillary campaign: »

By CRAIG DELLA PENNA on May 24, 2008 in Current Affairs | 289 Comments

[ADMIN NOTE: I'm not sure how the rest of us feel about this, but I am sensing that more and more of us are so fed up with the Democratic party that we have begun a mutiny. CRAIG, I ADMIRE YOUR RESOLVE! And VISIT Craig's blog, The Heraclitan Fire.] _______________ I don’t know if you [...]

The Oregon – Kentucky Axis of People »

By CRAIG DELLA PENNA on May 20, 2008 in Current Affairs | 129 Comments

From my blog The Heraclitan Fire (A sometime journal on the nature of truth, critical thought and politics). __________________________________________________ The voting will soon be complete in both our states with what looks like quite different results. We, in Oregon, have fought a rearguard action, trying to counter the Obamaite propaganda and open minds to rational [...]

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