All That Is Necessary

Month: August 2011

  • Kirk Petersen, Professional Blogger

    I’ve just been notified that as of August 24, 2011, I have entered the august and distinguished pantheon of professional bloggers. Specifically, I received my first payment from Google AdSense. My autograph is now available for purchase.

  • Hope Burns a Bit Brighter for a Positive Ending in Libya

    Today is my birthday, and the entire Northeast seaboard is preparing for Hurricane Irene. So what’s on my mind on this Kirk-and-Irene-focused day? Libya, of course. Specifically, whether President Obama deserves any credit for what tentatively seems to be shaping up as a reasonably OK outcome.

  • Too Bad We Can’t Put “Generic Republican” on the Presidential Ballot

    Unfortunately, Obama will face a specific Republican with specific baggage next November.

  • In Praise of the Tea Party’s Debt-Ceiling Victory

    “The Tea Party has an agenda,” [Fareed] Zakaria told host Anderson Cooper, and argued “it cannot get it through the political democratic process…. [They say] “we’ll blow up the country if you don’t listen to us.” This is nonsense on stilts. In fact, the Tea Party members, elected in 2010 in a historic rebuke to Obamacare and the Democrats, have just used the "political democratic process" to win an important victory on behalf of smaller government.