While perusing the news on the possible (probable) government shutdown I ran across this paragraph, which crystallized for me the long term implications of what the GOP is trying to do this week in the budget battles with Obama and Reid: The two chambers are on a collision course, a standoff that could lead to […]

Where do liberal/socialistic policies end? Is it Nirvana or Death & Decay? It seems the answer to this question can be found in what once was an economic powerhouse in the heartland of America: Detroit is broke, but it didn’t have to be. An in-depth Free Press analysis of the city’s financial history back to […]

Really? According to ABC News, in additional to a salvo of 200 Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from four Navy destroyers stationed in the eastern Mediterranean, the US is also planning an aerial campaign that is expected to last two days. This campaign potentially includes an aerial bombardment of missiles and long range bombs from US-based […]

It is crazy to watch President Obama and President-Wannabe Kerry – two woefully naive politicians whose shameless anti-war at-all-costs rhetoric during the Bush administration is legend – try to rattle their sabers at Syria. Talk about your stumbling and bumbling! It looks like there is a strong possibility the US is being played by Islamo […]

The debate in Congress over what to do about Syria is going to be interesting. If the parties stick to their core beliefs, Obama would lose as Democrats bailed on him given their anti-war obsessions. The GOP would be pushing the issue of maintaining the wrath of God on Earth over heinous crimes against humanity, […]

Update: Ed Morrissey catches a sad historic note on all this: Obama’s inexperience and an off-the-cuff comments seem to have the leader of the free world stuck on dangerous. Sorry, but the President should be able to fix a misstatement without going to war – end update A lot of second term US President begin […]

Before I address  the issues in Syria and America’s foolish war drums, I want to focus back on the spark that started much of the unrest and turmoil in the Arab/Muslim world: Egypt. The turmoil in Egypt has been intriguing me for some time, mainly because it looks a lot like the pivotal event many […]

As a small business owner – and joint head of a family of 6 – the disaster that is ObamaCare is truly stunning.  As business owners we are lucky to have much more flexibility than most people. We decide on the price point we will spend as a company verses an employee (we are both […]

AJStrata has been swamped with work and family issues, some good some bad, all involving giving up his free time. Feel free to start a new thread of discussion on any topic of the day and relevant to the nature of his blog. LJStrata

Update: Here is a good reminder of the limitations of our legal system, and why ‘not guilty’ so many times does not mean ‘innocent’. – end update Zimmerman’s defense team won a Pyrrhic victory yesterday. The prosecution had done its job in many respects. We all know Zimmerman chased down, confronted and – when losing […]