"Dems Caused the Recession; Dems Caused the Shutdown; Obama's Coming for your...
Conservatives love to trot out pet talking points and half-truths to support their arguments in favor of all sorts of agenda-driven politically extreme positions. The one I like the most is about how...
View ArticleRepublican Family Values and Motherhood
The GOP has scarcely allowed the ink to dry on each and every revelation of the party's overall incompetence at winning over minorities in the electorate, before launching new and ever more toxic...
View ArticleAnti-Tea Strategy: Blue Voting in Red State Primaries
All state primaries are not created equal. But in some of them you must declare your party affiliation, and thus get to vote only for candidates in that party. In effect, that makes it impossible to...
View ArticleTea Fatigue?
In case you hadn't noticed, in the U.S. the political climate is changing faster than the global climate, and Republicans are beside themselves trying to figure out how best to play their hand in the...
View ArticleThe Republicans' Benghazi Election
GOP Abandons Targeting Obamacare: Shifts focus to 2 fake scandals, insteadThe Republican Party had planned to attack Democrats on jobs and the Affordable Care Act, but both of those now seem less...
View ArticleOpen Letter to N. Carolina Citizens
To hell with your governor and the new law he just signed. If you have information on fracking chemicals, please just forward it to me, Wilburhorse, and I will be happy to reveal the information for...
View ArticleCantor Not Conservative Enough?
No, no, make no mistake about it. Eric Cantor was plenty conservative enough. He just wasn't sufficiently radical. Not extreme enough. He had poorly-developed anarchy skills. You might find this hard...
View ArticleThe Nightmare that is Obamacare -- But Whose Nightmare?
Before it ever became law, the Affordable Care Act had already acquired two things: Its nickname as Obamacare, and its additional tag as a pending nightmare. Opponents of this health care plan for the...
View ArticleSupreme Court Bans Abortion Clinic "Buffer Zones"
SCOTUS has spoken. There are to be no more so-called buffer zones established to protect operating abortion clinics in Massachusetts from pro-life protesters picketing the premises and attempting to...
View ArticleHobby Lobby Wins, Somehow
Today's Supreme Court ruling is, as it was expected to be, aligned with the conservative nature of this court. The anticipated 5-4 ruling, strictly along political lines, falls in place drawing little...
View ArticleWelcome to the Pandora Court and All that it Entails
In support of Islamic, Native American, Zoroastrian, shamanist, Moorish Orthodox, Satanist, and any remaining pockets of Thuggee religious corporation owners bringing to bear their "deeply held...
View ArticleCentrist Politics and Selecting Electable Candidates: Are the Arguments Still...
It used to be that the citizens of this nation were represented by leaders from different points on the political spectrum, and those leaders governed through necessary compromises on issues important...
View ArticleWisconsin Governor Scott Walker's politics: An Objective Review
The State of the State under Walker: Where it came from; where it is now; and where it seems headedAll politicians have an agenda underlying their policies. That is not necessarily a bad thing. But...
View ArticleThe "Poor" Terrorists were Tortured?
The toxic political climate in America today dictates that as soon as one end of the political spectrum says or does anything, the other end feels pressure to instantly reply. This article is an...
View ArticleThe GOP is DEAD
It's really too bad there aren't going to be any more Republican presidents. They can lay their presidential aspirations aside. There will never again be a Republican in the White House. The GOP has...
View ArticleRepublican Logic and Party Platform Planks, 2016
Put a conservative back in the White House and here is what we will do to take back this country for you, the people. This agenda will restore the proud dignity of our governmental institutions and...
View ArticleGOP: The Party of Economic Constipation
Do you remember when GOP stood for Grand Old Party instead of Getting Optimum Payola? You know, when our elected representatives actually represented the people instead of only the richest corporate...
View ArticlePerry Drops Out
Rick Perry admits he may not be quite crazy enough to compete in this year's crop of GOP contenders.This week Perry admitted that his 2016 campaign has run its course. He is dropping out of yet another...
View ArticleThe President's Second Nobel Peace Prize and 2016
A meme currently circulating on social media describes a second Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to President Obama this year when the awards are announced in October. The meme was apparently designed...
View ArticleBoehner's Resignation and What it Means for the Country
The big news is that John Boehner is stepping down as Speaker of the House. But the really big part of that news story is that he isn't merely stepping down as Speaker, but resigning from Congress...
View ArticleTrumpet Trump the Puppet
Donald Trump's media blitz is doing exactly what the Republican Party needs it to do. That is, as long as Trump does actually fade at some point. If he goes the distance and actually becomes the...
View ArticleGOP to Block SCOTUS appointment, and Their Own Party's Chances
The GOP wants to block whatever Supreme Court appointment the president might put forward. That's nice. How cute of them.I believe there are only two key points here. First, politicians will be...
View ArticleWho Did This, Exactly?
Aside from the insane, the bigots, the racist White Supremacists, and the other assorted delusional dimwits, who the hell voted for this monster-elect? I know sane adult people who somehow favored...
View ArticleDrumpfenleben: Neologism for our times
Where would we be without Donald Trump? Has he given us anything worthwhile?One might suppose, with fairly sound assurance, that we would be far better off if the aberration that is President Donald...
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Bandwagon Billionaires
Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer have entered the fray for presidential consideration as billionaires. Nobody would have considered doing this until somebody (named Drumpf) actually did it. Well, maybe...
View ArticleTrump Loyalty: With It You Have No Idea What You Are Earning For Yourself
Trumpers, beware. You are painting yourselves into a very dark corner. The world is watching, and the future is patiently awaiting your arrival.You have been manipulated by forces unseen to be the...
View ArticleThe Greatest
I am the greatest. These four words echo the very heart of narcissistic behavior patterns. One man made those four words quite famous back in February, 1964. Cassius Clay, aka Muhammad Ali, made this...
View ArticleYou’re a Trump Supporter in September, 2020?
You are a Trump supporter? Really? At this late date? After all the evidence against him has been accumulated and displayed for all to see and evaluate? Wha…?Umm, let’s just go over some of it, okay?...
View ArticleOfficial Motto of the United States
There is a move afoot to change the official motto of this country. Since 1956, the official motto has been In God We Trust. This motto has been emblazoned across our money ever since. Prior to that...
View ArticleBiden’s Nightmarish Discovery of Political Controversy
President Joe Biden has had a pretty easy time of it through the first half year of his tenure. Not that there have been no controversies, no challenges, and no very serious problems to deal with. But...
View ArticleNut-case Base
We would like to think it all started with the Tea Party, but in fact, there have always been crazies out there on the political fringes. However, things have certainly changed. And the GOP has taken...
View ArticleCould you be a racist?
“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” –Aldous HuxleyOkay, “Could you be a racist?” is an admittedly challenging question that...
View ArticleI Had No Idea!
The four most revealing and perhaps most infamous words spoken by the unvaccinated who are finally facing the reality of COVID-19 sickness and death, are these: “I had no idea!”Really? You had no...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court and Abortion: Why This Term is Important
The highest court in the land has convened in what may become a rather legendary term. They will rule on some very important cases. Not the least of which is the Mississippi case, Dobbs v. Jackson...
View ArticleDo Not Pass Go
Go directly to jail. You are familiar with the board game. However, we are not talking about a board game. The four Trumpers already “invited” to testify to Congress are in varying stages of refusal,...
View ArticlePutin's Holodomor
Favorite incredulous Star Trek quote: “They irradiated their own planet?”Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. That is a line from the film, The Wizard of Oz. The Wizard is seen working his...
View ArticlePresents for Ukraine, Playing Out in Real Time
Russia, if you are listening, I hope you can find all of those missing …Nazis.Russia has become Europe’s present day equivalent of what the Goths were to the Roman Empire. Some of the elements are...
View ArticleThe Golden Age of Stupidity
Someone smarter than I coined the following sentence. We are now in the Golden Age of Stupidity. Bravo. This statement is unquestionably true. And there is an older sentence that now, in light of...
View ArticleHome to Roost? GOP “suddenly concerned”
Are Republicans’ chickens suddenly (and unanticipated by the GOP) coming home to roost? It is midterm election season. The party in the White House is historically destined to lose seats in both...
View ArticleClown's Goin' Down
Teflon Don appears to have met his match. Donald J. Trump is in the greatest danger of prosecution – and conviction -- that he has ever faced in his entire life.Donnie Little Hands has always placed...
View ArticleGeorge Santos – The Latest Version of Republican Fun
Perhaps no single person has been more meaningfully defined in terms of his lying than Donald John Trump. He took it to a new level, never before seen, and that is certainly saying something. After...
View ArticleXi, Yay or Nay?
Xi Jinping has inserted himself and his country into the Ukraine war situation. The question I am posing is manifold, and admittedly very interesting. Or rather, the answers are going to be very...
View ArticleFox “News” and the Dominion defamation lawsuit
Are the people watching Fox News getting the news about Fox News’ Lies? Of course not.I watched an entire one-hour Fox segment of the day’s news Tuesday noon (“America Reports: Sandra Smith, John...
View ArticleThe Dilemma Man
Once known as the unmistakably proud Donald John Trump, this guy has now become the perfection of the Dilemma Man, having more problematic entanglements than you can shake a stick at. State courts,...
View ArticleTrump Fatigue
As the indictments have begun in earnest, and the potential trials approach, it seems to some as if we have been drowning in a barrel-full of Trumpism. But if you somehow think we have achieved as much...
View ArticlePutin, pressing the flesh?
After the government-challenging Wagner Mercenary Chief was seen being cheered by the populace on his highly irregular advance on Moscow, suddenly the secretive, isolated, president of the Russian...
View ArticleFinally! Legislatures and Prosecutors Get Serious about Fentanyl
A 15-year-old girl died of a fentanyl overdose a year ago in California. A new California law makes drug dealers selling to “customers” like this girl, who die from their overdose, a felony with far...
View ArticleRepublican: What does that word mean in 2023?
In 750 words or less, what does “Republican” mean today?It means that Donald Trump’s history is all good, and nothing controversial about it is to be considered. Why not? Because this is a presidential...
View ArticleStupid
“Slow to learn or understand; obtuse.” --American Heritage, 4thed.A year ago I wrote a piece titled, The Golden Age of Stupidity. It was well received. The question I want to address a year later is...
View ArticleIsrael, Hamas, and Reality
Sometimes reality is a difficult concept to wrap your mind around. Today’s turmoil in the Middle East is occurring at one such time.There is no quibbling with the notion that Hamas is a blatant...
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