http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress My (rather reasonable, I think) Opinion Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:35:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you’re talking real money.”                                         - Mis-attributed to Senator Everett Dirksen When it comes to national spending, we are in sore need of straightening out our priorities.  We hear the anger and frustration over the stimulus package, healthcare and Wall Street bonuses, but ... http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress/2010/02/22/whats-it-all-worth/ “A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' ”                                                            - Barack Obama I graduated from a high school named for the man who was, perhaps, Kentucky’s greatest statesman, ... http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress/2010/02/14/wanted-the-great-compromiser/ “It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.”                                                                                 - Thomas Jefferson Beyond the invasions of two countries; beyond the trashing of the budget surplus handed them by the Clinton administration in order to give even more to ... http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress/2010/02/08/guilty-until-proven-innocent/ “If there be righteousness in the Heart, there will be Beauty in the character.  If there be Beauty in the character, there will be Harmony in the Home.  If there be Harmony in the Home, there will be order in the Nation.  If there be order in the Nation, there ... http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress/2009/12/20/merry-christmas-2009/ “Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.” - M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter We have become a nation shaped by war. The warrior mentality permeates our society as surely as it did ... http://www.reasonableinsights.com/wordpress/2009/11/04/shaped-by-war/