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By Jim Willis on Feb 15, 2008 in Society & Culture | 1 Comment
Every time there’s a tragedy like we saw Thursday in Illinois, where someone goes berserk and kills people and usually then kills himself, I say the same thing to my wife: Drugs. And I’m not talking about illegal drugs. I’m talking about legal, prescription psychiatric drugs. And you know what? I’m right–every single time.
In the [...]
By Jim Willis on Feb 10, 2008 in Elections, Government & Politics | 0 Comments
With Mitt Romney now out of the race for the Republican nomination for president, there are no conservatives left in the race. So what do we conservatives do? Do we “fall in line” and support McCain as people like Lindsay Graham, Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes and even President Bush are telling us to do? I [...]
By Jim Willis on Feb 6, 2008 in Elections, Government & Politics | 6 Comments
A big night last night for John McCain and Mike Huckabee. Mitt Romney did well, but not well enough. It’s hard to see how Romney (the only conservative left in the race) can now score enough delegates to win. As of early this morning, the delegate counts stand as follows:
Republican Delegates (1,191 needed to win [...]
By Jim Willis on Feb 5, 2008 in City Council, Government & Politics, Mayor Matt Ryan | 0 Comments
The Citizen Action Council (formerly known as the Binghamton City Council) has rubber-stamped Mayor Matt Ryan’s Christmas wish list to the tune of $9.4 million–and hey, instead of doing it on the first day they took office, they waited 35 days. How considerate of them.
As we feared, the Gang of Seven (council members) do not [...]
By Jim Willis on Feb 2, 2008 in Elections, Government & Politics | 8 Comments
It seems the readers of this blog are supporters of John McCain’s candidacy by a wide margin. Unfortunately, your faithful author is not. Below are the results of those visiting this site and who they support in the primary (34 votes total - the poll ran for about a month):
Clinton - 3% (1 vote)
Giuliani - [...]