Phil Heimlich's Powerful Truths: Recent Episodes
Phil Heimlich
I’m sure you’ve been to parties where you didn’t fit in. That was my sense watching the recent Democratic Presidential debate. I felt out of place because the candidates were attacked for holding positions I deeply believe in.
Policy arguments are usually put in terms of left or right, Republican or Democrat. Sometimes both sides are wrong. An example of this was the decision to invade Iraq in 2003, now seen as the greatest foreign policy mistake since Vietnam.
As the year comes to a close, it’s time to honor the stupidest law passed in 2015. The winner is the new California “Racial Profiling Law.”
His latest cause is to demand criminal charges against Tracie Hunter be dropped. The Ex-Hamilton County judge was convicted of illegally providing confidential documents to protect her brother from being fired from a county job and now she faces retrial on other felony charges.
Normally, people lose their jobs for lying. Congressman Kevin McCarthy lost his for telling the truth.
The Major League playoffs finally began last week. As a kid, I loved baseball. That was before the playoffs were expanded and the season stretched into November to make team owners richer.
If you’re like me, you’d be shocked to learn that police officers in Cincinnati are being promoted based on their race or gender and not their performance. But the hard truth is that’s exactly what’s happening!
If you want racial discrimination in local government, I’ve got the answer. It’s called a “Croson Study.” In this racket, taxpayers pay a million bucks to a “diversity consultant” who writes a report claiming “disparities” in the ability of minority-owned businesses to get city contracts.
You may remember the picture of then Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounding his shoe on a table during a debate at the United Nations.
You shouldn't dance on a man’s grave, but it's hard not to in the case of John Boehner, the Cincinnatian who just resigned as House Speaker in Congress. The hard truth is Boehner stood for nothing.