Gov. Perry, The Eyes of Twitter Are Upon You!
Apparently Texas Gov. Rick Perry was enjoying a little gubernatorial downtime this Labor Day weekend when a terrible thing happened. A Bad Tweet. You know the kind -- thoroughly tasteless mad frat...
View ArticleDon't Know Much About History . . .
What's funnier than a bunch of conservative ideologues accusing US History teachers of historical revisionism? Not much, right? I'm still catching my breath . . . But that's exactly what's been...
View ArticleCogito ergo sum Presidential Timber
Good Lord, please spare me from the efforts of “the intellectual leader of the Republican Party” trying to sound presidential. First it was his fluffer-nutter of a presidential prospect bookThe Way...
View ArticleAin't No Cure For The Xenophobe Blues
Haven't you always chafed at being one of the unheard herd? Want to live your beliefs and force two huge nations to bend to your will and deliver on your demands? Want to make time stand still and...
View ArticleClean CR? Magic 8-Ball Says: Fuhgeddaboudit!
If redstate.com's Erick Erickson is to be believed, Congress' brief September Sojourn in DC will be anything but the low-key and uneventful layover advertised. Republicans have been telling...
View ArticleEmbrace the Suck: Midterm Edition
Following the fiasco of the Romney/Ryan ticket in the 2012 presidential race, the Republican National Committee decided that the time had come for the GOP to face some hard truths and make some...
View ArticleRep Jeff Duncan Gives Obama Failing Grade
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) is one of those southern gents who hitched his wagon to the TEA Party Express and woke up one morning a United States Congressman. And his admiration for himself has only...
View ArticleRepublicans Call Early Dismissal And Beat It Out Of Town
By now, most of us have heard at least snippets of the rags-to-riches American Dreamy Tale of how John Boehner rose to national prominence from his humble beginnings as a child laborer back in the...
View ArticleNational Review Online: Climate Activists Are Hysterical Losers
Yesterday some 400,000 Americans took to the streets of New York City and paraded their concern over global warming. As a result, National Review Online's John Fund took to his escritoire to...
View ArticleRarely Has A U.S. Veep Been So Wrong About So Much At The Expense Of So Many
I try to ignore the Cheneys -- Dick and, now God help us, Mini-Me -- as much as possible because, to me, they smell strongly of sociopathy and I try to avoid that sort of thing. I blame the dumbing...
View ArticleValues Voter Summit: Annual Gathering Of Tools And Fools
My how time flies! it seems like just yesterday that Values Voter Summit 2013 was underway. For the uninitiated, the Values Voter Summit is a festival of political oratory aimed at Values Voters -- aka...
View ArticleWaiting For The Barbarians
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) appeared Sunday on ABC's This Week:He acknowledged that President Obama does not support sending ground troops in to fight the radical group also known as ISIS or...
View ArticleJudge Jeanine Is Tired Of Charades
Judge Jeanine Pirro is a very smart, well-educated lady who has recently lost her marbles. But, thanks to the safety net provided by wingnut welfare -- Fox News and assorted other cable producers of...
View ArticleAnatomy Of A Pedagogical Clustrf*k
By now, most news-watchers are at least aware of a bit of Americana being played out in the streets of Jefferson County Colorado, an affluent collection of bedroom communities adjacent to the Denver...
View ArticleISIS Gonna Get You If You Don't Watch Out
It's apropos that Rep Duncan Hunter's (R-Hell, Yeah!) official website banner features a California skyscape dotted with hot air balloons . . . just sayin'. In case you're not that familiar with...
View ArticleEdupreneurs - Coming Soon To A School District Near You
Life in 21st century America is a hectic, demanding business and keeping up with current events can be like trying to drink from a water cannon. By cosmic standards, humans have developed mad...
View ArticleStumping Through Arkansas With Tom Terrific
As others before me have noted, Tom Cotton (R-AR) is just about the perfect Republican candidate for the 21st century, which should put us sane people on guard. Cotton's a telegenic "aw, shucks"...
View ArticleSchadenfreude: Not Just For Winners Anymore
Heads are exploding all over the Conserva-sphere, today. Mostly because the owners of those heads don't read very carefully. CJ Chivers broke a story, in The New York Times, exposing a Bush...
View ArticleLegislator Proposes Imaginary Solution For Imaginary Problem
Rep Dennis Ross (R-Round the Bend) is a man of action. And he has the toolbox to make things happen. So, the minute this here election is over, he's returning to Congress with an emergency bill in...
View ArticleConservative Culture Warriors Open New Front In War On Women
Well, I must admit that this is an audacious new offensive in the War On Women that the American Enterprise Institute has launched just in time for mid-term elections. Leading the charge is one...
View Article