Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
June 21, 2011
Did you see the Great Candidates’ Debate? Aw, well, it’s not like you missed anything. Republicans in the guise of “debating” is no longer (if it ever was) an opportunity to discern issues. No, it’s a red-meat party: throw it out raw to the crowd, and hear them roar. It’s a great […]
Posted in Politics |
Tags: GOP, GOP Leadership Convention, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, President Obama, Reggie Brown, Ron Paul
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June 14, 2011
If not sick of this story, we all should be. Too many sexual shenanigans among the famous surely have us jaded by now. I am here to add to the fascination, but as a concluding unscientific postscript. Certainly Anthony Weiner’s name lends itself to parody, given his particular fall from grace. But how […]
Posted in Politics, Social Issues |
Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Anthony Weiner, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fox News, GQ magazine, Hooters, Jane Lynch, Megyn Kelly, Norbert Wiener, Playboy, Shirley Sharrod
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June 6, 2011
The GOP’s search for a viable presidential candidate is akin to a needle in a haystack. And we all know that such a quest can result in a very painful moment of discovery. What we have now, save for Pawlenty and the recent entry of the Mittster, looks like a group photo taken […]
Posted in Politics |
Tags: Chris Christie, Dick Cheney, GOP National Convention, John McCain, Joseph Smith, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Mormons, Old Time Religion, Paul Revere, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, socialism, Tim Pawlenty
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May 17, 2011
For the umpteenth time, we’re told the Second Coming of Christ is imminent, this time on May 21 of this year. That’s the coming Saturday. So say some 1200 billboards nationwide, at a cost of $13 million. The ugly thing about this prospect is that certain people will be taken up to heaven while […]
Posted in Politics, Social Issues |
Tags: May 21 2011
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April 17, 2011
It was a hundred and fifty years ago and we still aren’t over it. Less than a century after Independence to create a nation, we were at each other’s necks in a Civil War of “father against son and brother against brother.” Keep in mind that included mothers and daughters too. The accompanying graphic […]
Posted in Politics, Race in America, Social Issues |
Tags: American Civil War, Confederate States of America, Emancipation, Jim Crow, Lost Cause of the Confederacy, President Obama, Racism, Rhett Butler, Slavery, War
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March 7, 2011
Forgive me that Presidents Day is past, but it often flies by with hardly a thought from us. And if you cringe at detail, don’t even start with the mish-mash of proclamations, executive orders and Senate bills that tinkered with bestowing proper honor on these dudes. What is now “Presidents Day” didn’t really get nailed […]
Posted in Politics |
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, FDR, George H.W. Bush, George Washington, Gregorian Calendar, John Boehner, Julian Calendar, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, U.S. Civil Ear, Woodrow Wilson
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January 11, 2011
Arizona was a “Territory” till 1912, and certain folks there are yet to stop riding mules and seeking gold in ghost mines. Quaintly, Phoenix’s “Historic” district are homes built in the 1930s and ‘40s. This is also the Arizona that nearly lost a major college bowl game a few years ago for outlawing Martin Luther […]
Posted in Guns Control, Politics |
Tags: Arizona, Arizona tragedy, Glenn Beck, Gun control, Jan Brewer, Joe Arpaio, Martin Luther King, Russell Pearce, Sarah Palin, Sen. John Kyl, Zippy the Pinhead
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December 29, 2010
‘Twas the day for Giving. Now are days for re-gifting–passing unneeded or unwanted gifts on to others, or Return to Sender. Given our anti-immigrant rhetoric and legislation, it’s time to send the Statue of Liberty back to France. Call it a re-gifting of Lady Liberty. We don’t like immigrants. But did we ever? Killing the […]
Posted in Politics, Social Issues |
Tags: Bracero program, Christmas gifts, Eiffel Tower, France, Frank Sinatra, George W. Bush, Lucky Luciano, Mexican migrant labor, Mitch McConnell, Pres. Sarkozy, Statue of Liberty
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December 16, 2010
For those who love wars, there’s always room for one more, and now it’s said that one’s been declared against Christmas by those who don’t believe in or celebrate it. I thought the latter were merely stating their own preferences, but Fox News, eager to push people into a fight, has made this a priority, […]
Posted in Politics, Pop Culture, Religion, Social Issues |
Tags: "New Athiests", Baby Jesus, Christmas, Hanukkah, Holiday greetings, Holidays, Kwanzaa, Oliver Cromwell, Opinions, Religion in America, Santa Claus, United States
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December 10, 2010
The military and war are personal legacies, my father’s entire family having fought for the Mexican Revolution, a civil war three times as long as ours. There, the Rebels won. My maternal grandfather fought in our Civil War, but was a Rebel in a losing cause. Had that Yankee bullet at Shiloh been a bit […]
Posted in Gays and Society, Politics, Social Issues |
Tags: Army of Occupation, Civil War, don't ask don't tell, General Petraeus, John McCain, Mexican Revolution, U.S. Marines, World War II
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