[NOTE- To get to a well-formatted version of the entire article, just click the Read More button at the lower right now.] Today, I’m not simply referencing the equities market collapse over the past week,...
“They all step back and say — ‘The president needs to get this done.’ At a certain point they need to do their job.’” President Barack Obama, press conference, 06-29-2011 For many years people...
Happy 4th!! “Please click “Read More . . .” E.J. Dionne’s column today, What our Declaration really said, addresses two major beliefs of Tea Party political fundamentalists. Below is an excerpt from a column...
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, 1908-2006 ………………………………. Dear Editor: Atlas...
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the taxes.” A mild paraphrase of Shakespeare’s Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2, 71–78 Ken Silverstein’s July 2010 Harper’s Magazine article, Tea party in the Sonora:...
“The people voted to end business as usual, and today we begin to carry out their instructions. As for tomorrow, or latertoday, we do not discuss hypotheticals.” \ John Boehner Is In...
Dude, we could stay tangled up like this for the entire 112th Congress! Cry “Havoc!” And Let Slip The Moose of War! Joe Miller, Alaska’s GOP/Tea Party candidate for U.S. Senate, filed suit...
The midterm election is but three weeks old, but, as is the media habit, once a show has run it course its on to the new season. Thus, the 2012 national election cycle has...
Murkowski? Hell, I can’t even spell Lisa! Can U Spell “Desperation”? As the spelling bee known as the Alaska write-in vote tally grinds on, the Miller count observers are questioning a goodly number of...
Look, I’ve told you plenty times, there’s two “L’s” in Miller!! The Name Game. The write-in vote counters in Alaska’s election central wish Lisa Murkowski had an easier name to spell, and so did...