The Right of the Insane to Have Guns

Or should I have entitled this, “The Insane Right Has Guns”? The recent events in Tucson, Arizona will be argued – they are already being argued – by both sides of the gun issue. Nevertheless, all must agree that this event should not have happened. Was it the fault of Sarah Palin just because she [...]

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The Fundamental Error of The Republican/Tea Party Coalition

The loosely aligned group of people who refer to themselves as the “Tea Party”  began to appear in 2008 as a response to the efforts of the newly elected Obama administration to cope with the collapse of the American banking system and the country’s screaming nosedive toward The Great Depression Part II. The movement gained [...]

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The Fundamental Error of the Republican Party

The leaders of the Republican Party are fond of pointing out that they are the Party of Lincoln.  Indeed, Abraham Lincoln did belong to the Republican Party, but the Grand Old Party is not what it used to be.  Once upon a time it was the champion of civil rights for enslaved Africans who were [...]

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Fox News Outed As Propaganda Machine

It had to happen sometime.  A business can only pose as a news agency for so long until someone says the equivalent of, “Hey, the Emperor’s not wearing any clothes!”  Today the bees are buzzing around the hive at Fox pretending to be caught off guard by a slam from the White House that simply [...]

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Has America Gone Rogue?

I suppose Sarah Palin gets a bit of satisfaction from the title of her new book, Going Rogue.  It’s sort of an “in-your-face” taunt back at Tina Fey’s classic Saturday Night Live impression during the last election campaign, as well as at some of her other critics who also accused her of going rogue at [...]

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