I haven’t posted on this blog in a long time because I’ve been busy educating myself. I’m still not anywhere close to done, and probably never will be, but the more I study the founding of the United States and observe what’s going on in Washington, the more I realize things are upside down, and not just since Obama came…
My name is Joshua Steimle, and I'm a native Californian living in exile. The policies enacted by politicians and judges in California did not cause my departure as they have for many others, but they are part of what prevents my return.
This blog is dedicated to politics and culture with no regard for party. My mission is to expose failure because it is by objectively examining failure that we learn how to succeed. I have some ideas about how California, the United States, and other countries can succeed, but I could be wrong, and I invite your criticism of my ideas just as I will be critical of yours. Together, we can build better families, better cities, better states, better countries, and a better world.
This is going to be one of those posts that evolves over time, so don’t judge it by the content you see here today, because it might be different tomorrow. What this post contains is a list of books which, according to my opinion, every US President should have already read prior to entering office. But since I am reading…
Attacking the messenger instead of attacking his message is old-hat. Beck has been called every bad name and has been associated with every negative label. But it’s one thing to attack the messenger instead of the message, and another thing to merely plagiarize the attacks of other attackers of the messenger. Do people really get paid for this type of…
Rush Limbaugh went to the hospital yesterday with chest pains. One cannot help wonder what will happen when Rush dies. All of us, including Rush, know it’s going to happen one day. He might live for another year, or five, ten, twenty, or heaven help the Daily Kos–thirty. Or he might die tomorrow. But it will happen, one way or…
Have you ever considered what a cool word “fahrenheit” is? Just chew on it for a while, you’ll see what I mean.
I recently finished reading the big government/mind control trio of 1984, A Clockwork Orange, and Brave New World. I had heard about these books all my life, but somehow never read them before this month. Earlier in life…
It’s not Rush, Hannity, or Beck. It’s either Dave Ramsey or Dr. Laura. Of course this is just my subjective opinion, but my definition of “effective” has to do with changing minds. I know Rush, Hannity, and Beck change minds, but I don’t think they reach as many non-conservatives as Ramsey or Dr. Laura do. Now, you might…
I agree with this CNN.com commentary that slavery needs more than just an apology. I think reparations are in order. Here’s my idea:
1. Free all slaves.
2. Take the people responsible for slavery and kill 483,026 of them. We’ll show mercy on another 194,026 and merely maim them, including a lot of limbs amputated.
3. Virtually destroy the…
Obama is planning on raising taxes on the rich. There’s no secret to this plan. He’s also planning on raising taxes on the middle class, despite his campaign promises, but that’s a topic for another post.
Liberal economic theory posits that when you take a dollar from an individual, that individual gets more than a dollar’s worth of value back,…
From the CNN.com article:
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius echoed Gibbs, telling CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday that a final health care bill will include competitive choices for consumers in one form or another.
“There will be a competitor to private insurers,” she said. “You don’t turn over the whole new marketplace to private insurance…
However inaccurate and unfair it may be, it is a commonly-held stereotype that Latinos are uneducated, ignorant, dishonest, and easily taken advantage of by pandering politicians. Unfortunately,Maria Hinojosa’s op-ed column on CNN.com entitled “Proud to be a ‘wise Latina’” does little to dispel such ideas. She talks about how the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor has provided an example…
