Cruz the Crass
The Ukrainian thing is an awful mess. There is really nothing effective that we can do about it and there probably shouldn’t be, we have no dog in this fight, but that never stopped a member of the GOP from
Category: Politics
Politics, Putin & the Ukraine
The standoff between Russia and the rest of the world over Crimea and the Ukraine isn’t gung anywhere. The Republicans in this country who are using it to attack Obama are no better than Putin. The reality is that there are
Hello Again
The Curmudgeon is back and very unhappy about our unscheduled departure. For those of you who have noticed, we haven’t been in your email for over a month and we only discovered that fact about ten days ago. It seems that our
Power Does Not Equal Inelligence
Last week, in an interview with The Daily Beast’s Eli Lake, James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, the same James Clapper who lied to congress under oath, when he told them that NSA was not collecting large quantities of American’s phone records,
Reading the Right
One of the things that helps me write this column is reading what the other guys have to say. So, a couple of times a week, I will get into Red State or Daily Events or even a couple of a the
The State of the President Isn’t All It Seems to Be
A few weeks back, the President started the State of the Union speech with a list of America’s accomplishments in the last couple of years including an accelerated graduation rate, the addition of 8 million jobs in the private sector, the weaning
The New Robin Hoods
Our country has always rooted for heroes, but in the last half century we have developed a new kind of hero to make the fans wave the banners harder. This one is a new kind of Robin Hood, a wunderkind who robs
Terrorism X Two
Let’s hear it for homeland security. The brave lads and lassies who spend their every waking hour fighting to protect us from the evil forces of Godless non-Christianity, have triumphed again. This time it was a terrorist invasion by a
Can’t We Fix the NSA?
Rep Mike McCall,( R )Texas stated recently. on national TV, that Ed Snowden is a traitor working for a foreign power. Of course he couldn’t name the foreign power or show any proof that Snowden was doing anything except what he
Jobs! Jobs! jobs!
The GOP has all the Evangelicals out praying their butts off that the ACA fails or at least looks bad long enough for them to make it the primary item in the 2014 election but that’s not really what’s important at