Given the frenetic and bloody start this new year has taken with the Charlie Hebdo killings, the Boko Haram massacre of thousands of innocent civilians in northeastern Nigeria and the row over the murders of two NYPD officers, even the… Read More ›
Republican Party
Requiem for a Democratic Dream
Don’t talk to me about American Dreams when you know I don’t sleep. Don’t fill my middle class mind with middle class lies and promise me middle class jobs that have moved away and will never return. Sew your star-spangled… Read More ›
Computers For Elephants
Since the ignominious departure of George W. Bush in 2008, the Republican Party has taken on the look of recently divorced man thrust back into the dating scene after a decade long hiatus. The Grand Old Party has lost whatever… Read More ›
House GOP to America: “La-La-La-La…Can’t Hear You!”
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 ›
Go Too Far to the Right and a Home Run Becomes a Foul Ball
There’s a scene about halfway the movie Pleasantville where William H. Macy comes stumbling into the local bowling alley soaking wet, shell-shocked and sporting a thousand mile stare that’s a few shades shy of catatonic. All of the other guys… Read More ›
Uncle Joe’s Finest Hour and a Half
Four years ago, I had no idea what he was thinking. After going through maybe the toughest primary fight in the history of the Democratic Party, then-Senator Barack Obama had in his pool of vanquished opponents an embarrassment of riches… Read More ›
Climate Change Doesn’t Have To Exist When There’s Central Air
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 ›