Swampcare Revisited

Republicans in congress are giving further evidence this week why I left the party. Their version of Obamacare, which I unlovingly call Swampcare, does not repeal Obamacare but simply moves some things around and calls it their own. Even the usually strongly conservative Freedom Caucus has given up and decided this bill is "the best we can get." Ten times during the previous Administration Republicans passed a bill that would repeal Obamacare because they knew the President would veto it. When they finally had the chance to show some real leadership and pass it again, knowing the new President would sign it, suddenly they like most of it. Several members have even said as much in the press. It shows once again that what is going on in the Repo party is nothing more than progressive politicking. They are not interested in doing what it right, just in keeping themselves in power.

I read an article in Roll Call today that quoted Barry Goldwater in 1960 saying:

     “I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient,
     for I mean to reduce its size. … My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal
     them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do
     violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that
     impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden.”

Where is that kind of Constitutionist leadership today? This is what I am looking for in leadership I can follow. Come on America! Wake up from this progressivist celebrity culture fog and be the people you were meant to be; the last great hope of the world.

Strive for GREATER things my friends!

Qualified?

I read a story on The Resurgent this morning and got a chuckle out of it for professional reasons. A little backstory here: the Ohio Board of Regents (OBR), who is in charge of all things educational in the state of Ohio, has a recent rule that to teach a subject at the college level a college professor or instructor must have 18 graduate hours in the subject. (Does this apply at community colleges?) A Ph.D. is no longer the cover-all, the hours must be specifically "in content." This has become a pejorative in the department I teach in because we have lost a faculty member over this, and I am no longer permitted to teach a non-majors geology (they're not even science majors!) class because I only have 9 graduate hours in geology. Never mind that in my area of research I deal with fossils from time to time and have direct experience with the deep-ocean floor; OBR says no!

The article says that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul will be teaching an english class on dystopian literature at George Washington University this fall. I wonder, does Dr. Paul have 18 graduate hours in english? As an ophthalmologist, I doubt it. Does his status as U.S. Senator make him automatically eligible to teach this class? I hope not. In that case why not have President Trump teach Anatomy and Physiology? He apparently has some hands-on experience with the female anatomy right?

My guess is that this is at the invitation of the university's president and I doubt whatever body oversees education in Washington D.C. would step in the way (principles be damned!). I just think it is funny how, once again, the political elite are afforded privileges the rest of America is not. Am I making too much of this? I probably am. It crossed my mind this morning and I wrote about it.

Strive for greater things my friends!

Face Palm!

All I could do was shake my head when I read this. @realDonaldTrump tweeted,

"Canada has made business for our dairy farmers in Wisconsin and other border states very difficult. We will not stand for this. Watch!"

So we are not going to stand up to Mexico RE: the border wall but we are going to punish...Canada?

(I don't have words...)


Strive for greater things my friends!

Politics and Religion

I decided if I was going to start blogging again I would have to change the name of the page. Searching the web for the previous name sent readers to too many sites I don't want to be associated with. So for now we will go with: Politics and Religion.

Strive for greater things my friends!

CONSERVATISM (n.)

I heard someone on a radio program today give a definition of conservatism and I liked it so I thought I would preserve it here.


"Conservatism is the principle that sovereignty resides in the individual."


Concise and to the point.

Strive for greater things my friends!

Holy Throwback Batman!

Well this is an interesting turn of events. I completely forgot this blog existed. My memory on Facebook yesterday showed me a posting to this blog I had made four years ago so I clicked on it and it brought me here to Taboo Twins. Wow! I actually wrote some interesting and mildly intelligent things here. I think maybe I should get started again. I will try to keep up a once-a-week posting schedule to muddle on things political and religious.

Strive for greater things my friends!