Now that’s ironic

Here is someone who had the same reaction I did to some recent comments by Jimmy Carter. (He just phrased them better than I can!)

When he called George W. Bush the worst president in American history, Mr. Carter managed to ignite a 24-hour brush fire out there in medialand. That’s understandable. There’s something irresistibly comic about Jimmy Carter’s calling another president, any president, the worst in history. It’s like Danny DeVito calling somebody else short. – Paul Greenberg

Carter is rapidly becoming even more of a joke than his presidency was! The only problem is that he (and the sycophants in the media) takes it all sooooooo seriously.

What Memorial Day is really about

Believe me, I enjoy the beach and cookouts as much as anybody, but it is often too easy to think that these things are all there is to Memorial weekend. I ran across this column this morning and recommend it highly as a reminder of what today is really about. Check out: America’s Honor: The Stories Behind Memorial Day.

One of the more sensible ideas…

… I have heard in a long time on immigration: let’s just enforce the laws we have on the books already before we implement some grand “comprehensive reform” program. See Practical Compromise: Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There