Arkady's Thoughts

What do you guys think of the new design? I was getting slightly depressed by the old design and if I want people to read my content, least I can do is provide pretty colors - right?

Yesterday I made a posting in reference to Broun's accusation of Obama looking like a dictator. It did not take long for the rest of the spineless politicians to send Mr. Broun into a corner. Story: Broun Apologizes I understand this kind of fiery rhetoric may offend a lot of people and in fact it may very well be overblown. However his point is entirely valid in the sense that the people should be vigilant. We are dealing with something very unusual here and when a president-elect suggests that we need a national force that is as well armed and as well funded as the US Military, it is alarming. Beyond the fact that the military has a budget of over 400 BILLION dollars, the necessity for such a force should raise many questions. The chain of command of this civilian force is also questionable as it would seem as of now that they will answer to the president - directly. People need to stop living in a politically correct fantasy world preaching the mantra of "it cannot happe

I have been getting frustrated by the collective musings of Americans who are under the impression that a historic seismic shift transpired on November 4 th . Significance of a bi-racial man elected as president is most certainly a notable event, but so is the election of the most liberal left-wing candidate in history. Although official numbers are still not released we can make some very reasonable assumptions of the turnout (source: wikipedia ). Barack Obama Democratic Illinois 66,117,432 52.6% John McCain Republican Arizona 57,847,877 46.1% Total: 123.4M George W. Bush Republican Texas 62,040,610 50.74% John F. Kerry Democratic Massachusetts 59,028,444 48.27% Total: 121M An increase of 2+ million voters between 2004 and 2008, not the kind of historic significance I was hoping to see. Furthermore what is striking is that Bush obtained almost 5 million more votes four years ago! This is an indication that Republicans sat home. There was probably some cross-over to the Democrat ca