Month: August 2011

In a commentary for the Wall Street Journal, James Taranto states the following: Times have changed. In the 1930s, government was small. Expanding it massively in order to solve …

The race card is played once again:   “Tar Baby” — from time to time, this ugly racially charged phrase has come up in our political discourse. Most often, …

Here is an excerpt from the FOX News story about the House passage of the Debt Ceiling deal: Liberal Democrats are unhappy in part because the first phase of the …

Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was almost killed by a crazed would-be assassin months ago, just entered the House floor to cast her first vote since her wounding — and …

Via The Anchoress, who has more where this comes from: It cannot be too often repeated that all real democracy is an attempt (like that of a jolly hostess) …

  There has been so much charged emotion and inflammatory rhetoric flying around in the past month regarding the Debt Ceiling Crisis, that I was concerned people might not …

Last year, the Conservative Political Action Committee drew a lot of attention by accepting a couple of controversial sponsors. Among the groups who wanted to “buy into” their annual …

Note: I wrote this before Rick put up his piece on the same matter. It is in no way a response to Rick’s; we just happened to both find …

Outrageous no?  Indeed… except… Dick Cheney didn’t (for if he did, you can be assured that we’d all know about it)… instead, it’s Joe Biden who’s making money off …

Obviously, global warming is a hot top (pun intended). Some critics of the Church of Global Warming dismiss global warming as being fictional, as if climatologists were doing this: …