So, this is the Democrat’s idea of protecting the Middle Class in America? After a year and a half of political gamesmanship, we have a plan formulated by a Democratic-led Senate to raise tax rates on individuals making more than… Read More ›
US Politics
The Fiscal Steamroller
As far as metaphors go, the concept of the US Government falling over the “fiscal cliff” after the new year is pretty uninspired and ill-fitting. I suppose the idea behind it is that if our elected officials are too brainless,… Read More ›
An Action Without Affirmation
It might be thought of as unwise to base a tenet of one’s life philosophy on a comic strip, but when the comic in question is Calvin & Hobbes and the author Bill Watterson, I think that an exception should… Read More ›
Manger-Gate: Merry Listmas 2012
Seeing as how it’s Christmas Eve and all, I thought it might be nice to can the hand-wringing and righteous indignation for a day or two and tell Scrooge to get bent with a societally inappropriate amount of good cheer…and… Read More ›
NRA: No Regulations Allowed
On a scale of 1 to 10, with one being Bill Clinton waxing philosophical on the meaning of the word “is” and 10 being Mike Tyson threatening to eat his opponent’s babies, the absurdity of NRA President Wayne LaPierre’s public… Read More ›
Amending the 2nd Amendment
The 2nd amendment is a lawyer’s wet dream, devoid of anything approaching clarity and subject to the interpretation of whatever august chamber happens to be deliberating on its meaning. It is a Rorshach Test that helps to determine where we… Read More ›
Are We There Yet? Affirmative Action in America
There is a brutal irony in the fact that the potential legal grounding for the disassembling of affirmative action programs in our nation’s colleges lies in The 14th Amendment and in The Civil Rights Act of 1964, two pieces of… Read More ›
The Deep South: Geography as a Risk Factor
Red America forms a thick, inland L in the flat midsection of our country, bordered as much by geography as by political preference. The Rocky Mountains and Mississippi River shepherd the younger constituents of this conservative nation-within-a-nation down towards the… Read More ›
It’s Time to Sell the Straight Talk Express for Parts
There was a time when John McCain wasn’t just a doddering old punchline to a joke he’s never in on. 12 years ago, McCain rode his Straight Talk Express through the hills of New Hampshire representing a different breed of… Read More ›
Red Eyes, Full Bongs, Can Lose
There is nothing in recent memory to suggest that the referenda that were passed to legalize weed in Washington and Colorado this November will be anything more than a confirmation that public sentiment regarding “soft drugs” has shifted substantially in… Read More ›
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