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...
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