Opinion
Cheating husbands remember: ‘John Wayne Bobbitt’
Slashed tires, a psycho girlfriend, a busted marriage? That would be the movie “Fatal Attraction.”
Will There Be a Draft?
This year, enlistment lagged 25 percent below the military’s needs. There are no doubt a host of reasons for that. Purists will tell you it’s because the armed forces are going “woke” and the people don’t like that. An alternative theory is that youngsters are being taught America is a racist country and therefore doesn’t deserve to be defended by their sweat and blood. An alternative theory points out the generosity of our welfare system. If people are receiving free money for doing nothing, why should they volunteer to put their lives at risk in exchange for a low salary? There’s also the factor of relatively low unemployment. People who already have a job are less likely to seek out military employment.
Colonoscopy, endoscopy, the whole enchilada
“Hey, Wendorf, it’s almost the new year, can you write about something positive and uplifting this week to cheer us up?”
Republicans Help Democrats Spend
Twelve Republican senators and nine Republican House members joined with Democrats to pass next year’s 4,000 page 1.7 trillion dollar omnibus spending bill. This vote was particularly egregious because the Republicans would have been in charge of the budget with a majority in the House if passage could have been delayed for a couple of weeks. The budget could have then been considerably reduced through rejection of pork barrel spending. Democrats could have passed their bill without Republican help in the House this December, but they didn’t have enough votes in the senate to prevent a filibuster. The lack of solidarity among Republicans has been a longstanding problem for the GOP. Democrats strip campaign funding from senators and congressmen who go rogue, and thus force them into unified compliance. Republicans, however, never seem to be in total agreement on any issue. Nor have they been able to heal the rift between moderates and conservatives. That rift showed itself again in the budget vote. Former President Trump urged all Republicans to vote against the budget because it was a spending monstrosity. Twelve of the fifty senators, including Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voted for the bill. McConnell stated reason for doing so was that the bill gave a nice bump to defense spending and increased non-defense spending less than the rate of inflation. Unfortunately, however, last year’s level of non-defense spending was a product of liberal Democrat action, so the 5% figure is misleading.