Archive for December, 2008

Dec
30

Fear and Respect

Posted by: Todd MacLeod - Category: Presidency - No Comments

Picture yourself analyzing a competitor.  Whether it is for an athletic event, a debate, a promotion or some other similar situation that pits you against him.  When conducting this analysis, it would be natural to see how other people, facing the same competitor, treat him in the arena.  Given their ...
Dec
30

Doubling Down

Posted by: Todd MacLeod - Category: Culture, Presidency - No Comments

Why would a Governor, facing possible impeachment, facing federal criminal charges, and facing approval ratings in the single digits feel empowered enough to name a replacement for Barack Obama's Senate seat?  Prior to retaining competent legal counsel and based on his past history, I would argue that Governor Blagojevich was ...
Dec
29

Business Proposition

Posted by: Todd MacLeod - Category: Economy - 1 Comment

PROPOSITION: Start a company in the United States whose focus is to design, manufacture and sell a top quality product.  Not an online company, not a professional services company and not a pyramid scheme.  From the ground up---create the idea, get financing, put together a top quality management team, design, ...
Dec
25

Christmas Thanks

Posted by: Todd MacLeod - Category: Uncategorized - No Comments

As I sit in the warm comfort of my home, with family, enjoying the sight of my daughter opening up presents---my thoughts are with the men and women of the U.S. military who stand guard over this wonderful country.  It is days like today, when their job takes them away ...
Dec
24

Winning the New Cold War

Posted by: Todd MacLeod - Category: Military, Presidency - No Comments

Russia is anticipating a massive increase in the price per barrel of crude and they are planning on spending their windfall on nuclear weapons and delivery systems.  Putin believes he has a weakened U.S. and a weak leader with which to deal in Barack Obama.  As this Guardian piece points ...
Dec
19

Buy Ford!!!

Posted by: Todd MacLeod - Category: Economy - No Comments

I currently own a Ford F-150 Crew Cab.  It is my third Ford pickup truck and was purchased prior to Ford's CEO declining to participate in the government 'bailout' of poor management.  However, after hearing Alan Mulally proclaim that the business plan put into place years ago in anticipation of ...
Dec
17

Laboratories of Democracy - Test those Taxes

Posted by: Todd MacLeod - Category: Economy - 1 Comment

Paraphrasing Justice Brandeis, state legislatures have the opportunity to act as laboratories for democracy.  It seems that New York now has the opportunity to show how the tax-tax-tax-and-spend-spend-spend policies of Barack Obama would effect the nation.  Governor Patterson has just proposed the largest tax increase in New York's history coupled ...
Dec
16

Code Red - University of Virginia

Posted by: Todd MacLeod - Category: Culture - No Comments

"The University of Virginia is distinctive among institutions of higher education. Founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819, the University sustains the ideal of developing, through education, leaders who are well-prepared to help shape the future of the nation. The University is public, while nourished by the strong support of its ...
Dec
16

Che Guevara Unplugged

Posted by: Todd MacLeod - Category: Culture - No Comments

Reason TV produces a great little introduction into the evil behind Che! and his ideological brother Mao!: ( Hat Tip: The Conservative Wahoo )
Dec
16

Ralph Peters analyzes the Shoe

Posted by: Todd MacLeod - Category: Presidency - No Comments

Too much emphasis is being placed on 'the shoe incident' that occured in Iraq over the weekend.  A partisan journalist decided to take his political leanings into the press room and physically assault President Bush.  It was a display of personal arrogance on the part of this 'journalist' as well ...