Arkady's Thoughts

Simple! America has declared war on all of these with surprising results.  Perhaps examining the outcome of the previous wars can guide us on how we should proceed with the ongoing war on terror? War on Alcohol This was the quickest war and roughly began with the prohibition on alcohol also known as the noble experiment.  Starting in 1919 and ending in 1933 America's prohibition serves as a constant reminder on the effects of using the federal government's heavy hand to coerce and control human behavior.   While the war was waged on complex moral grounds and stemmed from noble reasons the results speak for themselves. Believe it or not, consumption of alcohol during the prohibition almost reached pre-prohibition consumption levels according to official statistics despite an outright ban of alcohol. Some sources even suggest consumption increased and with the thousands of speakeasies, black-market distilleries producing moonshine and bootleggers smuggl...

Certainly good news, although doubtful this will translate into anything meaningful.  Three brave Republicans are delaying man of the year's reconfirmation as they  seek out documents pertaining to the bailouts of 2008. First of all, where is the public outrage?  Why is it that when Democrat voters justify their votes, they do so based on some odd perception that Democrat politicians fight for the "little guy" and against the big corporations.  Yet the biggest corporation of them all, Federal Reserve, gets a free pass and yet these same voters do not bat an eyelash?  Is it because the Federal Reserve's presence and function is unclear to people or is this just another case of electorate ignorance.   Just this past election in Massachusetts I personally heard justifications for defending Coakley even though she is completely swimming in corporate money, how is it not blatantly obvious as to where the loyalties of these politicians truly lie?  Ho...

As the Brown supporters run amok in Massachusetts comparing yesterday's election to the battle of Lexington and Concord, Democrats in Washington are scheming.  Indeed, some of the rhetoric has dramatically changed from a full blown liberal charge to a more thoughtful and amicable tone.  While some have proudly declared ObamaCare deceased, I think otherwise and find this new tone troubling.  Allow me to share with you why a Brown victory may have very unintended consequences. As discussed earlier, I objected to supporting Brown for the sole reason of stopping ObamaCare because I refused to believe that six months of negotiations would be flushed down the toilet.  If he were just a slightly  better candidate and had some semblance of Constitutional thought in him I would have gladly given my support, but as a candidate he was and still is more liberal than McCain.  My main point at the time was that ObamaCare would pass as is and indeed still favor that o...

Not too bad on the prediction , eh folks?  I am a bit bummed out that my candidate of choice failed to get my predicted 3%, but Joe Kennedy ran to the best of his abilities and passionately argued for small government.  I applaud him for that and hopefully the 22,000 people who cast their votes will have their voices heard at some point in the future.  So now what? Let's go over the good.  First of all, as discussed previously some liberals are probably on the verge of a mental breakdown.  Always good.  It looks like their prediction for the collapse of the GOP has proven to be a bit premature, as this piece from Time aptly suggests:  Republicans in Distress: Is the Party Over ? So are the Republicans going extinct? And can the death march be stopped? The Washington critiques of the Republican Party as powerless, leaderless and rudderless — the new Donner party — are not very illuminating. Nothing would make Time happier than one party rule....

Tomorrow morning I will get up and cast my vote, I will cast it proudly, but sadly knowing it will once again fall on deaf ears.  I have of course made it no secret that my support goes to the individual that best suits this nation at the current juncture.  To me it never mattered whether my candidate could win because my selection was made based on the issues, not statistical probabilities.  In America looms a great crisis, a crisis of monumental proportions and yet we continue to steadily march to the same beat that brought us here in the first place.  I have done my part at this moment and have attempted to educate and steer those willing to listen, but money speaks and this is the nature of our political process.  So my prediction is as follows. Scott Brown (R): 52% Martha Coakley (D): 45% Joe L. Kennedy (I): 3% This is based on two factors.  Firstly the internal polls are all converging on a momentum rush that will be difficult to stop and Coakle...

There has been a wave of videos modeled after the now notorious America Rising theme and their popularity is growing.  It must be the music in combination with rapid image rotation, because you could literally make any video popular. If you use this formula and stick pictures of zebras, unicorns and Teletubbies while threatening a revolution - people will cheer and run to the nearest gun store. This video however is just embarrassing and indicative that a mental plague has afflicted Massachusetts.  Most of us were mortified one year ago at the rumbling Obama train.  We were scared to see so many people move lockstep like sheep and support a man for reasons they could not explain.  We kept hearing the muffled chant of "yes we can" and "change and hope", but could not extract any information out of the unfortunate zombies awestruck by the Deity known as Obama. We have on our hands a similar phenomena, but it is happening to the ideologically opposing demographic....

In what appears to be an act of desperation the Democrats dispatched our president to rally the shell shocked liberals in voting for Coakley.  This is particularly perplexing because it would appear that every poll is suggesting that Brown is guaranteed to clinch the win - so what is Obama doing?  After stumping for Corzine in NJ and speaking on behalf of Deeds in VA, is he willing to further undermine his own credibility here in MA?  Now perhaps these losses are irrelevant to him or do not hurt his standing in any way, but a third loss in a row would suggest that the magical aura is beginning to wear off.  At one point virtually anything Obama touched would instantly turn into gold and Democrats gained an impressive majority riding his coat tails in 2008, but we are on the cusp of a major reversal in fortune. While I am not rooting for a liberal to win this coming Tuesday, whether it be Coakley or Brown, a win that could further hurt Obama's credibility will be f...