KJ's Corner

25 July 2008 The Honorable Arlen Specter 711 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510 The Honorable Robert Casey 393 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senators Specter & Casey: The purpose of this correspondence is to address my concerns over HR 3200 and the administrations push towards government run or socialized health care in the United States . I am adamantly opposed to any form of a “ Public Option ” or government involvement in the health care system in the United States . I am not alone as an increasing majority of Americans share the same views. While HR 3200 is a bill in the House of Representatives, some form or fashion of this bill will inexorably work its way to the United States Senate. On behalf of my wife and myself, registered and active voters in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , I urge both of you to vote NO to any form of government run, government sponsored or government backed health care bill that...

JUNE 6, 1944 . Sixty-five years ago this Saturday was D-Day. On this day the liberation of Europe began in earnest with the landings of thousands of American GI's on French soil. On this day, and because of this action Europe was liberated in one year, but at the expense of over 400,000 American lives in the European and Pacific theaters of operation. What did we ask in return? Did the United States liberate Europe in order to expand our boundaries? No. Did the United States liberate Europe in order to force our way of life upon it's citizens? No The United States and her allies liberated Europe from the clenches of a madman who in the end was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of innocent people who did not fit his definition of a " Master Race ". For all of her sacrifices, what did America ask for? All we asked was for a place to bury those who gave their last full measure of devotion. In the post war years, the United States of America contri...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finds herself in a bit of a pickle these days. Seems she can't get her story, I'm sorry, stories straight about what the CIA told her about the " Enhanced Interrogation Techniques " during the years 2002 - 2006. She says the CIA misled her about what they were doing to gleen information from high value detainees. Now I personally have no problem with dunking a captured terrorist in some water to gain useful information to keep this country safe, but it seems those in power do. It worked, so why are we now banning it's use? The debate now is whether or not she will be called before the Senate to testify, under oath, about what she knew and why she did not object then as she objects now. Now that should be some good TV. While listening to the news yesterday I heard one of Pelosi's versions. She said that at the time, and this was in 2006, that her job was not so much national security, but winning the election to ensure the Demo...

It pains me to write this. I have bought and owned nothing but Chrysler Corporation products, all Dodges and one Jeep, since 1976. I have never had a bad one. Now, this President issued orders to a PRIVATE company, an American icon, to partner with the Italian owned Fiat. Fiat, the mega automaker, is according to the latest statistics I can find is the 8th largest automaker in the world. Of all of the brands under the Fiat umbrella, only two of them are sold in these United States of America. With the Obama administration, the liberals and the environmentalist extreme pushing for Green stuff, like super fuel efficient cars, it does my heart good to see that Fiat exports two super fuel efficient cars to the United States. These two cars are the mega fuel efficient Ferrari (best EPA 2009 rating 11 City / 16 Highway) and Maserati (best EPA rating 11 City / 18 Highway). Well, wait a minute, they also sell the Alfa Romeo 8c here. The 8c is Alfa's muscle car, a 4.7L V-8 engine r...

H ere’s a really bone headed one for you . The White House decided it needed a photo or two of Air Force One flying by the Statue of Liberty. Now, while this sounds like a nice idea and would make for an impressive photograph, setting aside the almost $329,000 cost in these dire economic times, or as “ The Messiah ” calls it, “Economic Crisis”, this was just plain stupid. Never mind the fact that some sophomore in any high school could have “ Photoshopped ” one for them for free, this goes way beyond stupid. Unless you have lived in a cave anywhere except Afghanistan , where even they know about it because Al Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks in caves in Afghanistan , you would remember the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 . Well, they are not called terrorist attacks by the Obama administration; they are now called “man caused disasters”. I reckon the terrorists were engaged in their own “ Overseas Contingency Operations ” that day. So, on Monday 27 April 2009, so...

Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, who was a RINO (Republican in Name Only) yesterday announced that he was switching his political affiliation to the Democratic Party. This defection should not come as much of a surprise. While Specter is often called a “Moderate” Republican, he sealed his fate in Pennsylvania when he voted for the Obama Stimulus Plan earlier this year. Specter conducted his own polling and discovered that he could not win a Republican primary election in Pennsylvania when he runs for his sixth term in 2010. So, in order to ensure his comfortable position as a US Senator, he switched parties. Surprise, surprise, another career politician does what he has to do to stay in office. This switch was a pure and simple calculation on his part. In my humble opinion, Specter needs to learn a lesson in the representation of his constituents. Despite public opinion against the “Stimulus Package”, Specter voted for it. So much for “fiercely representing the residents of ...

When I started this blog, I decided that I would write my own stuff. However, every now and again something comes along that is just too profound to pass up. I got an e-mail with the following piece from Tom Olsen, a friend of mine, and like me, a retired cop. Thanks Tom for sharing it. When I read it, and then re-read it, it put into words why the American people are fed up with the Federal government, and more to the point, explained clearly and concisely the philosophy behind the growing grass roots movement from which came the Tax Day Tea Parties. The American people are becoming increasingly disgruntled with out of control government and the lunacy of the spending that Congress is authorizing right now. The debt is out of control, government is growing by leaps and bounds with a new " Czar " of something or another being appointed every week while the little guy - you and me - is taking in it the shorts. I guess this piece re-affirms my core conservative values, and ...