Bits & Pieces #46
In the midst of the whole Bergdahl mess another pair of lost sheep have come to the fore. In 2012 Caitlin Coleman, who was pregnant and her husband Joshua Boyle decided that it was a constructive idea to go hiking around
Category: Politics
Patriots: Our National Disgrace
This Friday July 4, 2014, I sat in Avery Fischer Hall at Lincoln Center and listened joyfully as the NY Philharmonic, about one hundred strong, played a brilliant version of the National Anthem. As I listened, all I could think
The IRS Mess
There’s been an awful uproar of late over the IRS investigations being conducted by our witch hunting congressional committee headed by that salivating bottom feeder, Daryl Issa,. The head of the IRS has been called a liar, which he probably
Goodbye to the Bergdhal Bruhaha
Notice how Bowe Bergdhal has disappeared completely from the news? Ever wonder why? Maybe it’s because it was never that big of a story after all. Once he was rescued there wasn’t anything to say. But the GOP had a lot to
The Obama Legacy
I don’t usually put much faith in political popularity polls but one of them caught my eye the other day. It showed that some segment of the American public, probably the Palin and Cruz families, thought that Barak Obama
Do You Believe in Magic?
The Supreme Court made the wrong call on the Hobby Lobby They still haven’t figured out that a company is not a person. Maybe they don’t want to figure that one out. But they also made the wrong call on
The Immigration Mess
This week in a southern California town called Murrieta, mobs carrying American flags, led by a raging moron wearing a flag hat demonstrated against immigration, stopping buses full of little children on their way to a processing center where a
Five Senile Old Men
This week five intelligent but seemingly senile old men started an argument that could threaten to tear this country apart. I’m speaking, of course, about the Hobby Lobby decision and the repercussions that will echo through the land for the
Bits & Pieces #45
Over eight million people have signed up for Obamacare and many of them are the young people needed to
The Soldier Returns – But Not To Rave Reviews
If you are one of those people who have had it up to your eyeballs with the way politicians in general but especially how the Republicans have come to use every opportunity, apropos or not, to try to make political hay