Democrats in the Wisconsin Senate, short of the votes needed to keep Republicans from passing the so-called “budget repair” bill, fled the state on Thursday. They haven’t been seen since, and said Saturday they are more resolved than ever to stay away “as long as it takes” until Walker agrees to negotiate.

What they need to call this tactic however, is cowardice, at least that is what I would call it.

On September 12, 2001, President George W. Bush invited members of Congress and the media for a meeting in the cabinet room of the White House. The mood was understandably anxious, somber: The World Trade Center lay in rubble, the Pentagon had a hole gouged into it and shock and awe had settled over the United States. One of the most extraordinary periods of American history – what would come to be known as the “Post 9-11 Era” – was beginning.

Maybe it’s not the world; maybe it’s us. After all we are not the guardians of world politics. We are not our brother’s keepers. Maybe these people are not really our brothers. Do we actually believe that after millennia of physical changes, and cultural and racial evolution, we are all the same? We are all made from the same genetic soup and stuff, but that’s really where the similarities end. We differ greatly in our approach and value of life. We view the world through politically different eyes. We are culturally disparate and separated by our religious preferences and beliefs. I think this makes us all very different.

From EUROPE, no less, comes the word: Failure! It is used to reference multiculturalism.

From England, from France, from Germany — the leaders of all three countries decry multiculturalism as a failure.

I must tell you that when I heard the news reports on this I cracked up with laughter.

Now we got this boy as POTUS,
Who will never set US free
Illegals stand in line to reelect this boy-king.

(King Tut) How’d you cross the border?
(Border Tut) America’s out of order.
Scorned in Arizona,
He came from Kenya’s home-a? (King Tut).

Damn it … Hold the press!

Hold everything, I can’t believe what I’m seeing, I hope my eyes are deceiving me.

Just when I awoken to what appeared to be a bright, sunny day, after weathering a deep freeze for the past two weeks. I walked down to the kitchen where my lovely wife was in the process of preparing breakfast.

I am aware that there are some people at work who disagree with my political views and that there are some who may consider me a radical, or even dangerous. That’s fine, I can deal with that. But now it seems that I also have issues. I apparently have these issues because I expect people to do their jobs.

I guess I grew up being spoon fed all these silly sayings, like an honest days pay for an honest days work. Or, if you’re going to take a mans money, make sure you earn it. Then my favorite, if you’re going to do a job, do it right.

CHURCHVILLE, VA — Paul Krugman is a big deal: Princeton professor, New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate (2008). Krugman wrote last week about the “food crisis, the second one to hit the world in the last three years.” His key statement: “what really stands out is the extent to which severe weather events have disrupted agricultural production. And these severe weather events are exactly the kind of thing we’d expect to see as rising concentrations of greenhouse gases change our climate—which means that the current food prices surge may be just beginning.”

How wonderful that the Egyptian dictator Mubarak has finally stepped down. But there are considerable uncertainties about when and how a fully functioning democracy that benefits ordinary Egyptians, especially the poorest, will be formed. Restoring the Egyptian economy and ensuring that it benefits not just the existing upper class that supported Mubarak is a key challenge. Economic reforms, however, are hardly mentioned by all those talking so much about the wonderful transformation in Egypt.