With less than two months until the US Presidential Elections and a fortnight of convention madness still lingering in our collective unconscious, you would be forgiven if you forgot that there were other countries in the world that weren’t America…. Read More ›
On Thursday night, Barack Obama stood behind a dais in Charlotte, North Carolina with two things on his mind. Like his Republican challenger, the President set out to deliver a speech that would capture the hearts and ballots of the… Read More ›
To hear both sides tell it, America would erupt into a pit of molten lava were we to elect the candidate that isn’t them. One man is a Kenyan socialist who wants to take away your guns and shoot you… Read More ›
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! – Barry Goldwater, 1964 Republican National Convention Last night I… Read More ›
If you want to know why Ron Paul supporters are the way they are, all you need to do is head down to a day game at Wrigley Field. While the vast majority of fans will be perfectly happy to… Read More ›
I wrote this piece back in January on my old blog, A Night In The Box, and thought it would be appropriate to recycle in anticipation of the upcoming RNC corporate orgy. ——————————- For all of his bumbling, incompetent magnificence,… Read More ›
I need a break people. For the past couple weeks it’s been nothing but magical vaginal rape shields and Ayn Rand objectivist petting parties and I don’t know how much more of it I can take. The Republican National Convention… Read More ›
“The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.” – Christopher Hitchens For being a nation that essentially founded the modern democratic republic, we’ve never been too fond of the whole “democratic” part of the equation. As… Read More ›
“Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.” – Lyndon Baines Johnson If there’s one thing you could always count on from ole LBJ it was a Texas sized portion of folksy… Read More ›
Is now a good time? Just three weeks ago, after a deranged twenty-something unloaded an AR-15 assault rifle into a crowd at a showing of the latest Batman film, the debate on gun control was pretty much dead on arrival…. Read More ›
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