Failed Leadership Becoming a Burning Legacy
Tweet I used to take pride in my ability to listen to arguments at all levels, look beyond the limiting bonds of a persons language and temperament and be able to distill their real views from postured bravado, manufactured anger, and the assumed right of the so called disenfranchised to carry a poly-generational rage against [...]
Read More →Debt Ceiling, Fiscal Cliff, Sequestration… Oh, My!
Tweet So much being made lately by the big media players (those who get and or pay money to the federal government in order to use airwaves and bandwidth in order to spread the president’s socialist agenda) about the impending sequestration, shifting language and the ever present shell game again to reflect negatively on the [...]
Read More →Rebuttal Commentary on the State of the Union
Tweet Editors note: This is long, but as the State of the Union is a long speech, and Jim Layne has taken it and rebutted on each of President Obama’s point, you can imagine how long this is. Consider yourself warned on that front. Let me begin with the disclaimer that this is an opinion [...]
Read More →Speaking of Shock and Awe
Tweet It has been quite the week for Obummer and Injun Joe. I must admit they are quite skilled at the shell game. Swiftboat Johnny was sworn in as Secretary of State, I wonder if Hanoi Jane will be coming along. Come to think of it I wonder if Benghazi Billary will be taking over [...]
Read More →A Shell Game of Presidential Proportion
Tweet I have a very vivid imagination. As an author of fiction I understand the blacksmithing of facts to fit necessity to preserve the suspension of disbelief. I am also the most likely person to tell you that where foreign policy and military operations are concerned, Operational Security (OPSEC) should always trump the people’s right [...]
Read More →Inauguration: Just another I Love Me Moment
Tweet bi Jim Layne Just sitting here grieving the retirement of longtime conservative talk radio host Neil Boortz and wondering to whom we will turn for the voice of dissent now that there’s no one with nothing to lose. Pardon me just a moment while I remove the tinfoil hat from my Slurpee (T) and [...]
Read More →New Congress: It’s The Same Old Circus With Some Brand New Clowns
Tweet Thursday was day one for the 113th Congress. So many promising young public servants and their families drove all the way to Washington D.C. to be sworn at by the Jester and get a look at their new digs. These poor people have no idea that their idealistic dream of going to our nations [...]
Read More →A Year of Blessings Behind, Resolutions Ahead
Tweet by Jim Layne Any column that looks back on a year’s achievements is bound to come across as boastful, braggartly, or as an expression of vanity. Bear with me, my successes this year are probably very meager by most standards but after a number of bad years, good news is great news and deserves [...]
Read More →A Christmas Story
Tweet “Lookie Daddy, them’s Christmasies.” His three-year-old daughter squeaked in her little singsong voice while leaning way over the edge of the shopping cart. They were in Mayer’s Hardware Store on Christmas Eve. He needed to purchase a new elbow for the kitchen drain. It had frozen and cracked the night that the furnace had [...]
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