My Two Cents (and Worth Every Penny)

Bush League

Allen Rosenshine — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:59:47 +0000

A fellow blogger and like-minded political liberal recently bemoaned the current Benghazi, IRS and Associated Press “scandals” engulfing President Obama, writing: “Suffice it to say that we are witness to a collision behind some slipshod, misguided...

The Court v. Common Sense

Allen Rosenshine — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:25:29 +0000

Not quite twenty years go, a lawyer named Philip Howard wrote a book called “The Death of Common Sense.” His thesis was that government bureaucracy produces so many laws and attendant regulations so absurd as to stifle innovation and productivity,...

Ready, Fire, Aim

Allen Rosenshine — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:34:39 +0000

Now that the Newtown tragedy has prodded the president and a mostly reluctant Congress to bring gun control, for at least as long as it titillates the media, to the surface of current priorities, I find myself (oddly for a liberal) in basic...

America’s WMDs

Allen Rosenshine — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:03:04 +0000

America’s foreign policy and defense establishments have long concerned themselves with the threat to our nation and to global stability posed by weapons of mass destruction in the hands of adversaries, enemies, and governments of questionable...

A Christmas Label

Allen Rosenshine — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:11:42 +0000

At a time when a political label is often used to libel, I offer the following verse in the spirit and hope that everyone enjoy a Happy Holiday season and the best for the New Year: For three hundred sixty-four days of the year, He and his...

The Modern Artist

Allen Rosenshine — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:21:06 +0000

Note: With the GOP in well-deserved disarray, I temporarily turn my attention to another subject. A Google search came up with nothing related to the painting referenced in the anonymous passage reproduced below. Does this sound to anyone like...

The Tumbling Point

Allen Rosenshine — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:00:02 +0000

With their second consecutive defeat by Barack Obama, the Republican Party heads for a few rounds of recrimination as they tumble past their “tipping point” toward a free fall into irrelevance. Some among them already claim their loss resulted from...

Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States

Allen Rosenshine — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:18:33 +0000

Not that I suppose you have missed my blogs of late, but I admit to being stunned into silence by the outright cynicism of Mitt Romney and the astonishing ineptitude of Barack Obama. Governor Romney’s campaign began with him re-inventing himself as...

And Now a Word from …

Allen Rosenshine — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:51:06 +0000

It doesn’t take too many of my blogs for anyone to realize where I stand in this year’s presidential election. And having spent most of my life in advertising, it is only natural for me to try and create ads for President Obama. So I’ve done that...

Chips Off the Old Block

Allen Rosenshine — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:44:48 +0000

I recently heard a press reporter tell the following story. I don’t recall her name or the town she was talking about, but I almost cannot believe what she said happened. She was writing about teens in an affluent suburban community, buying and...