No Mercy Shown, No Mercy Given
It didn’t take long before the verbal snipers came out to play in the wake of Bin Laden’s death. It wasn’t enough that most of the Republicans, with few exceptions, were crediting the abysmal George W...
View ArticleThe Point of No Return
My father, a lifelong Democrat and a fervent union supporter, always maintained that even the Left had its limits.“Go far enough to the Left in your opinions,” he’d always say, “and before long, you’ll...
View ArticleRude Pundits
I’m about to date myself, but I can remember when the only political pundits and commentators were the ones who had regular columns in the big regional newspapers – people like Drew Pearson, Jack...
View ArticleThe Republicans' Meatloaf Moment
Word out today says Mitch Daniels doesn’t plan to run for President in 2012. With Mike Huckabee and Haley Barbour deciding not to make a go of it, that leaves only Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman in the...
View ArticleThe Lamestream Media's Monster
Sarah Palin’s on the rise again, and that frightens me. She frightens me because she allows me to see the sheer power exuding from our 24/7 cable news media, taken together with the various and sundry...
View ArticleThe Lamestream Media's Monster
Sarah Palin’s on the rise again, and that frightens me. She frightens me because she allows me to see the sheer power exuding from our 24/7 cable news media, taken together with the various and sundry...
View ArticleMacaca in Extremis
I was not at all surprised to hear last week of the Montana Republican who wants to challenge for Jon Tester’s US Senate seat in 2012, openly admitting his past ties to the Ku Klux Klan. In fact, he...
View ArticleBetween a Rock and a Hard Place
New Rule: If we stop treating politicians like the celebrities they’re not, maybe then they’ll act like responsible people we trust to represent us, instead of the celebrities they’re not.
View ArticleInstead of Blaming the President, Why Not Learn Some English
OK, I wondered how long it would be before the media just couldn't resist the temptation to encourage the unthinking tranche of the Left (which I'm increasingly calling the lowest common denominator of...
View ArticleJoan Walsh: Twisted Sister Punches Down
The British have a great phrase for expressing the fact that someone is undergoing a particularly angering derangement syndrome. They simply say that someone "has a cob on." Well, Joan Walsh has had a...
View ArticleJoan Walsh: Twisted Sister Punches Down
The British have a great phrase for expressing the fact that someone is undergoing a particularly angering derangement syndrome. They simply say that someone "has a cob on." Well, Joan Walsh has had a...
View ArticleSorry to Bore You, but Lily Ledbetter Is What Democrats Are All About
The kindergarten of spoiled, affluent children pretending to dabble in politics, otherwise known as Netroots Nation, hit a new low when the White House communications director, Dan Pfeiffer, was...
View ArticleThe Professional Left and the Big Sam President
So I understand Keith Olbermann, the multimillionaire media egotist and ex-sportscaster who deems himself eminently qualified to comment on political affairs, whose resurrected show Countdown is an...
View ArticleFine Young Cannibals
When the Democrats have to be told home truths by Pat Buchanan, you know something is not only rotten, it's shameful.
View ArticleJust a Word About Marriage
We are the United States of Shallow Americans. We obsess over the nuance in a phrase or a word and are distracted by the most inane things, thus allowing the sheisters and idealogues, whom we reckon...
View ArticleNever Mind the Dangerous Insipidity of Dan Choi
Dan Choi's at it again, twittering and wittering his vitriolic hatred of the President. Dan's the posteboy of the gay rights' movement, but he's rapidly turning into a Cindy Sheehan figure. Unlike...
View ArticleThere's Nothing Worse Than a Starfucking Ratfucker
I see Bill Maher's following this week's fashion of Obama-bashing again, in the wake of Chris Matthews's, Ed Schultz's and Rachel Maddow's expert analysis of the President's Afghanistan speech and hot...
View ArticleThe Radical Chic Pay Lip Service to the Poor
In yesterday's New York Times, Charles Blow, one of my favourite opinion writers, wrote a brilliant and poignantly evocative exhortation to politicians of all stripes not to forget the poor in all...
View ArticleJoan Walsh Says Vicious Obama Supporters Are Paid GOP Trolls
Sometime around about April Fools' Day, Joan Walsh jumped the shark. Since then, she's got caught out and called out in remarks that were just the teensy-weensiest bit racist, although Joan, being Joan...
View ArticleWhen the Left Borrows from the Right
I'm not a great fan of Cynthia Boaz, but I'll give her fair due. She's written a cracking piece which you can see on TruthOut.org's website, entiled "14 Propaganda Techniques that Fox 'News' Uses to...
View ArticleOne Man's Racism Is Another Man's Comedy
There's a Facebook friend in my social network, from Denver, Colorado, a man of the Left, who insists that race isn't a factor with the Left's so-called disillusionment with the President.I disagree.Of...
View ArticleExcommunication By State
I am a Virginian born and bred. My mother's people were Virginians before Virginia was Virginia. They met the first settlers when they arrived to found Jamestown in 1607. One married John Rolfe. She...
View ArticleProgressive Pundits Punching Down: KO KO's Disabled Lady
I know that there are people amongst the flock here who worship the air Keith Olbermann breathes, but there are people on the Professional Left who are so patently purist that they're working against...
View ArticleOf Cabbages and Kings: It's Not That Obama's Naive; It's Just That the...
(Sigh) I hate to bring race into this equation. I hate even approximating a race war, but the time has come, the Walrus said, to speak of many things, of shoes and ships and sealing wax - of cabbages...
View ArticleCivil Disobedience and Its Consequences
When I was a junior in high school, in the middle of Richard Nixon’s first term, I took a course in civics. Back then, this was required of all high school students, usually taken in their junior or...
View ArticleThe President Who Isn't
People are living longer. Just look at the number of ex-Presidents we have living yet. There are four, and I can’t remember when so many ex-leaders of the country have been alive and compos...
View ArticleJoan Walsh's Dysfunctional View of History and Government
Last week, the President - you know, the black dude who sits behind the desk in the Oval Office - spoke to a coterie of politically-involved college students, Republicans, Democrats and Independents...
View ArticleCredit Where Credit Is Due: Some People Need Reminding
Just about a year ago, prior to Congress breaking up for its August hiatus, the President summoned Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to the White House. Mindful of the fact that 2010 was a Midterm year, and...
View ArticleThe Fraud That Is Bill Maher
Would the real Bill Maher please stand up? Who is he? I want to know. Is he a comedian or a political pundit? Is he a Progressive (as he claims he is), a libertarian (as he’s been on record in the past...
View ArticleThe Enemy Within
There's been a campaign going on around the blogosphere for awhile, advocating that MSNBC ban Pat Buchanan from appearing on the network. Buchanan is a political analyst, who, in the wake of the...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Women and the One Man Who Failed
How's this for an oxymoron?Her Serene Highness Queen Ratfucker Omnipotent of Medialand, otherwise known as Arianna Huffington, came to Philadelphia yesterday to address the convention of theNational...
View ArticleCorrection: Hillary Was Never a Progressive, but Johnny Reid Was
As more and more unreconstructed PUMAs and Clintonistas emerge from the woodwork, to whine,cry and generally stir cack over the fact that they really, really, really, really, really don't like having a...
View ArticleAttitude Problem
I was born a Democrat. My parents were Democrats before me. My father cast his first vote at 21 in 1936, for FDR. Four years later, when she turned 21, my mother did the same. She came from a long line...
View ArticleLil'Boy Bill Eats His Foot
This morning, I kicked a foul-mouthed woman off my Facebook page. She was a totally unreconstructed PUMA, who posted this article from the UK broadsheet, The Telegraph.I've nothing against foul mouths....
View ArticleMessage to the Lazy Left: THIS Is How It Starts!
You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re...
View ArticleBack to the Future
The more things change, the more they remain the same.Sometimes, today’s Progressives and their recalcitrant attitude to this President, reminds me of the Maypo kid and his hapless dad. Some things...
View ArticleBill Maher and the Magic Negro Syndrome
Perception is reality. ~ Lee Atwater Bill Maher has a problem. On Tuesday of this week, he tweeted this:- Obama's pathetic: "the political culture blahblah..." - BLAME THE REPUBLICANS! Besides better...
View ArticleReclaim the Name
Like the man said, pick up that Liberal label and wear it as a badge of honour. Liberals ACHIEVED. Progressives whined. Reclaim the name, then replace the base.
View ArticleWhen Journalists Lie: Re-Writing History
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View ArticleThis Is What Happens When You Don't Vote
I usually try to get back to the Commonwealth once a year. I've lived for the past 30 years in the same part of England to which two other Virginia women, Pocahontas (my kinswoman) and Nancy Astor,...
View ArticleConfederate Americans (We Know Them as Something Else)
At the recommendation of a fellow Southerner, I'm currently reading a book I should have read long ago - Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic.It's one of the most honest representations of the...
View ArticleA Word to the Whiners.
If you can get beyond her atrociously and openly racist first sentence, you need to listen to the rest of her diatribe.
View ArticleTo Those Who Are Ignorant of the Past ...
Loads of people love to talk about fascism coming to the United States, draped in a flag and carrying a cross. Well, maybe that's so; but I happen to think that it'll come the way good, old-fashioned...
View ArticleIs Bill Maher a Closet Republican? Are You Being Ratfucked?
Bill Maher calls himself a Progressive and likes to think of himself as a man of the Left. He is iconic, to the point that those people who are avid fans, follow his every word. Like the KObots, any...
View ArticleHeadupassitis
So The New Yorker - that's a pretty serious magazine, right? - took to the street and found eight random OWS protesters and asked them five questions.Maybe they asked the wrong people the wrong...
View ArticleHeadupassitis
So The New Yorker - that's a pretty serious magazine, right? - took to the street and found eight random OWS protesters and asked them five questions.Maybe they asked the wrong people the wrong...
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