Zombie Politics

For quite awhile on this blog, I have been talking about how the conservative base of this country has essentially gone off the deep end. Th...

As I enjoyed one of my very simple pleasures in life last Sunday morning (cracking open the Sunday edition of the Times), I was surprised to...

"I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man w...

I'm usually hot or cold with Steve Chapman, columnist for the Chicago Tribune, but he really hit the nail on the head with his latest co...

Many of you who have been reading this blog for years probably think that I am a cranky, cynical fuck a lot of the time. If you know me in p...

As is usually the case, the reason why the Democrats have failed to pass health care reform is staring at them right in the mirror. No, I...

Being bipartisan cannot mean that Democrats give up everything they believe in, find the handful of things that Republicans have been advoca...

I get a lot of grief on here whenever I put up a post that illustrates the complete insanity of the right. The responses I get are usually o...

As I watched Sarah Palin's address to the Tea party convention last Saturday, I was reminded of a concert. "The Frightening Weaknes...

President Obama unveiled his budget last week and, predictably, the right went ape shit. The Times has a very detailed analysis of how the m...

Health care has come up again in comments and I thought I would point to an excellent (and short) piece written by Andy over at Electoral-Vo...

Last in Line will be happy to know that I finally have an answer to his question "Why can't you get anything passed with Democrats ...

My friend Scott from the gym (an ultra conservative) made me promise him that I put this on the blog. He never reads it, barely checks email...

President Obama recently announced that he wants to double the amount of exports from the United States. I'm curious as to what exactly ...

Opened my copy of the Times this morning (ah...the simple pleasure of the Sunday New York Times) and found yet another example of why we ne...

I'm going to be talking about this one for the next few days. This is a long video (1 hour and 7 minutes) so take your time with it. Som...

A while back, I became a "friend" of the Department of Defense on Facebook. They put out a lot of cool info every day and so, from...

1. State of the Union -I thought it was great but what does it matter? 30 million people hate him no matter what he says or does so I'm ...

I'm feeling bitter and cynical tonight. I've always been excited on the night of the State of the Union speech regardless of who was...

Manzi leaves us with two other broad reaching fix-its. The first one obviously hits close to home. Over the coming decades, we should seek t...

We now come to the point in Manzi's article where he lays out solutions to the problems he identified earlier. He points to four very br...

And now we get to even more bad news for the left. All told, finance, insurance, real estate, automobiles, energy, and health care account f...

Before we continue with the Manzi article, I just had to put this up. This is courtesy of TH from a discussion on another site. In a politic...

I would be remiss in my political commentary if I did not address the election last night in Massachusetts. First of all, the Dems have only...

Well, we have had full illustrations of how wrong I have been about many things regarding our country. Now we get to the part the confirms w...

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. --Dr. Martin Luther King. If the pa...

Innovation is in danger of being squashed in this country. This is happening for several reasons. The first is that the Democratic Party has...

Continuing with my analysis of Ken Manzi's Keeping America's Edge article in National Affair s , we see why America is having so muc...

Most of you know that I get a lot of comments and emails about this blog. We're up to around 150-200 regular readers now and, boy oh boy...

It's only 11 days into the New Year and I'm already scratching my head...wondering what the FUCK is the matter with people? So, when...

Getting back to Iran, a recent article in the Times was quite illustrative on the current uprising. Apparently, a retired professor from Ha...

"They simply have two goals in mind, and if the first one fails, fall back to the second one," Greer explained. "And the firs...

Take a look at this article from today's New York Times. Are you fucking kidding me!?!? A while back, I compared the conservative base o...

U2, New Year's Day Video, 1983. I wonder what the new year will bring for Notes From the Front....