Going Live!

Thanks for stopping by and welcome to IMHO …

I wanted to take the time in this first post to lay out what I am envisioning with this blog. For those of you that know me already you can see I enjoy discussing American Politics. So, rather than continue to harass (I really hope I am not doing that!) the Live Feed on my Facebook account, I thought it would be better to take my opinions to a more accessible venue where others outside of the friends list can read, debate, and comment on the issues I will present.

Since this is my first time setting up a blog, the structure I would like to follow may change as time goes on based on feedback, personal time restraints, and, of course, the rapidly changing pace of the political environment during election and off election years.

My goal right now is to present one major topic per week covering subjects such as tax reform, economic growth, social and cultural agendas, and foreign policy to name a few. Some thoughts here would be:

Is the Fair Tax the answer to a broken tax code?

Are lowering taxes long term really the solution to sustainable economic growth?

Can America accept a truce in the battle over same sex marriage?

What to do about Iran?

The weekly topics will not always reflect the current events but will also sometimes highlight issues in History. For Example:

If JFK where alive and running for president today would he be a conservative or liberal?

Was FDR an economical genius?

What would have happened if the South had won the Civil War?

You get the point! The main thing is to present information with facts to support it and sources highlighted.

Besides the larger topics every week, I will post a variety of excerpts from politicians, pundits, links to magazine and newspaper articles, useful websites, information on books I am reading that may be of interest, and other such filler material.

On a side note:

I will admit I tend to be conservative on many issues and in the middle on many others. So, in defiance of most in the media, I believe to be a person of center-right mindset (many in the mainstream do not believe this position exists nor is it the majority in America. That is a topic for later discussion!). Whereas hard left and hard right have little to no room for negotiation, I am very open to debate and enjoy other points of view as we search for the best solutions to a particular problem.

If all goes well, I hope to have the first topic up by early next week sometime. So check back then and often thereafter. You can also subscribe to the blog and have alerts sent to you when I have made updates.

Again, I thank you for stopping by and hope we can have fun talking about issues some may consider very dull but most would agree are now more important than ever.

Ed