Leaning Left Jim Fitzgerald It has been eight years, eight very long years, since we invaded Iraq. That is the same length of time I spent in the military during the Vietnam era. And no, I did not fight in Vietnam because my specialty was repairing the guidance and flight control systems of a nuclear...

Leaning Left Jim Fitzgerald The easiest way to write an article is to castigate your opponents and avoid their arguments. The easiest method to deal with political differences is to deride opposition arguments as ill-informed, stupid, unsubstantiated opinions, and illogical. The easiest path to frame...

Leaning Left Jim Fitzgerald Sarah Palin, in 2009, said: “The United States Constitution is one of the greatest founding documents in history because it charted a bold new path in the realm of political theory.” Senator John Cornyn, also in 2009, said: “The Framers created a written Constitution...

Leaning Left Jim Fitzgerald We have allowed our media and politicians to present a black and white political world that reduces very complex issues into a sound bite or two. Consider the issue of illegal immigration. In the early 80’s, Reagan handled the issue without a lot of fanfare; granting amnesty,...

Leaning Left Jim Fitzgerald When Social Security (SS) was signed into law in 1935, the poverty rate among seniors exceeded 50%. As far as I know, there were no private retirement programs at that time. Unless a senior was wealthy, they either had to work until they died or depend upon family to care...

Leaning Left Jim Fitzgerald November midterm elections may be the rout that Republicans are predicting, or maybe not. As I have said before, it is still too early to start predicting which way the fickle American public may swing when the time comes to pull the lever in the voting booth. As a supposedly...

Leaning Left Jim Fitzgerald The ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee apologized to BP for what he called the “White House shakedown!” Representative Joe Burton from Texas, the man who would be in charge of the Energy and Commerce Committee if Republicans were in control of the...

Leaning Left Jim Fitzgerald As more tea party candidates are winning primaries across the nation, we are beginning to get a glimpse of their view of small government. I have wondered many times what conservatives mean by small government because without a sense of what government would look like after...

Leaning Left Jim Fitzgerald As you may know, Newt Gingrich is on a book tour selling his latest book, To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine. In his book, he writes that the administration is “a corrupt bureaucracy which uses manipulation, bribery, and dishonesty to steamroll...

By: Jim Fitzgerald Sentinel Columnist Even though one writer has suggested – indeed stated as fact – that the equivalent of the combined populations of Wyoming, North Dakota, and Vermont descended on DC to protest health care, a number even conservative bloggers disagree with, I think we can all...