From the Author of STREET POLITICS: IT AIN'T YOUR DADDY'S GOP ANYMORE!
While Boehner and McConnell Continue to Play With Themselves. This was too important to tack onto an older post as an update. So, do you want to know how to spot a nasty political whore? See who votes to support Obama’s efforts to get a nuke for Iran. For the truly slow, that has been […]
3 Mar 14 George Will once posited this question: If by some miracle everyone’s net worth and income measured against purchasing power were to triple overnight, would the howling about income disparity suddenly go away? The answer is, of course not. The reason is because pundits and politicians favored by the non-thinking class would point out the […]
3 Mar 14 I have been reading The Economist quite a bit lately. One might think with a name like that you’d find clear-eyed, conservative content; not at all. It is a product from across the pond and is chock full of some of the most well-worn liberal drivel in print. Last year they ran […]
Update: I am glad to say, I was wrong with my post debate predictions for Rubio, Fiorina and Carson. Congrats all three! 7 Aug 15 It wasn’t easy to avoid turning on the TV this morning to watch the fallout from last night. But now, the chores are done, workout finished and I can sit […]
11 March 2014 Tonight, the well of the Senate has been transmogrified into a church. Adherents are gathered to give witness to the power of the gods of climate. They will piously warn of the devastation that awaits us if we listen to the apostate flat-earthers who doubt the holy writ. They will ignore the MASSIVE ice […]
I want to play poker with James Carney. I want to see him throw a handful of blue chips after drawing two cards. Then I want to watch that little turd’s left, upper lip fold back and his head drift down and to the left when he declares his bet. Carney came to this White […]
Well, I suppose I should concede that there are several reasons the Republican party snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. The one we’ll visit with here comes to us from John Alley of the Fredericksburg Coalition of Reason (FredCoR). It seems Al Bedrosian (R – Roanoke County, Va) needs to go away for a little […]
Economics is a simple discipline. It’s people who EFF it up. There is a school of thought that says by letting the value of the dollar slip again and again, we keep the price of our goods down, increasing foreign trade. You don’t want a trade deficits, right? Well, who the hell cares? Markets come […]
Yes, you! I mean you…personally! Update 13 Nov 15: It seems that every election brings the clarion call of the under-educated saying we need to get rid of the Electoral College. This call is very popular among in the very places it is meant to protect. Without the EC, places like Detroit, Philadelphia, New York, […]
The Washington Monthly, in their March/April edition of 2012, published a list of the Jerrett, er uh, excuse me; the Obama Administration’s top 50 Accomplishments. Needless to say, a blizzard of comments followed. I was not aware of the article until a friend on Facebook brought it to my attention in order to make the […]
You can’t say, “colored”. Not that you would, the word has been out of fashion, with one glaring exception, for years. As a word, it is utterly harmless. If you described a black person as “colored” in a sentence, there is no valid reason to assume that you would mean any harm. But the assumption […]
“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.” – Golda Meir Western Ignorance on Parade It is most disturbing to witness the rise in blind, […]
In the aftermath of WWII, the world stood, jaws agape and watched China taken by a notoriously hated band of overbearing Communists. This while an ally of the most powerful force on the planet (with tons and tons of war material left from war production that could have aided them), fled to a small island […]
Isn’t organized religion a handy contrivance? There isn’t anything that you can say, not a single phrase you can mutter that can’t be tied into a phrase or idea in any grand holy book. At the end of this article is a link. For those entrepreneurs studying for the religion business, this link is a […]
May ’15 Update: The idea is catching on. But your representatives don’t fear you yet. So this sorry state of affairs will only continue until they hear from you. Still, it’s good to see that most people are paying attention. Sneak Preview These are the key points of the project: For my Democratic friends (this […]
…(which is to say arbitrarily and without the capacity for reason) Of all the scandals and crimes committed by the Obama administration, the ebola debacle shines as the most stupid. AND IT AIN’T OVER. What is the science here? Let’s establish real parameters here. The primary lies about ebola are the ways we are told […]
There’s been a lot of hand wringing over the last 24 hours about how we must come together and not point fingers of blame about the shooting in Alexandria. Basically, I agree with that statement. But fingers are being pointed anyway. So if we must assign blame, or at least accuse others of inspiring this […]
As of Thursday, 8 June 2017, the Trump Presidency has reached a point where it has no allies. Well before this, Ryan and McConnell had alternately duped Trump into backing stupid ideas (Ryancare) by stroking his ego, or turned their backs on his agenda (taxes and infrastructure). Now they have the cover they need to […]
Universal Welfare? Say It Ain’t So! My knee-jerk reaction to Zuckerburg’s speech was shock at the naivete on display. Sure, he made a lot of money when he was too young for the responsibility. But by now you would think he’d matured at least a little. But a talking head on FOX Business turned me […]
25 Feb 14 CK stole my thunder with a piece in the Washington Post. I had just read about the disappearance of a lake in Iran and have been trying since to find time to sit and address one point made by the author. But I learned in the meantime that Charles Krauthammer (almost always the […]