President Romney and the New American Reality
I want to project a couple of months into an alternate reality. As unattractive and improbable as it may be, I believe it behooves us to take a serious look at what it could be like.On January 20,...
View ArticleRomnesiac Mythomania: New Category of Mental Disorder
The current political fervor that is winding to a conclusion (finally) in the United States, has drawn the usual measure of accusations, flying back and forth like some sort of reciprocal verbal...
View ArticleParty Politics and the Worst of Two Evils
Partisan politics in America has taken on a new and disturbing dimension that should not be ignored or allowed to grow. We are in a new era where the political lie has become the political norm. But...
View ArticleThe Pope Doesn't Know Christianity, and Bears Don't Defecate in the Woods
Pardon me, but has anyone else noticed the hard right's tendency to isolate themselves from adversity, differing opinions, and …pretty much everything? If there is a group the GOP has not alienated in...
View Article"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...
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