Zombie Politics

Take a look at the photo below. Compelling, isn't it? This actually a sculpture at St. Alban's Episcopal, ...

Now they are reduced to flicking away dolls? Hilarious...

Liberals can't seem to let go of the "Obama is really a corportist" meme just in the same way that conservatives can't let...

Yeah, I'm thinking this is what should happen to right wing blog commenters as well...:)

Here's an interesting piece on our Age of Ignorance. It contains a nice and concise list of the lies that people believe in this countr...

Say something about President Obama's critics and race and it's like 1974 all over again for Hall of Fame baseball player Hank Aar...

Oh, look, Phyllis Schlafly's tired old white ass is trying to sound relevant . The best way to improve economic prospects for women is...

So, Frazier Glenn Miller is Jew hater and shot up two Jewish community centers in Kansas over the weekend, killing two people neither of who...

But the thing that is really killing Mitch McConnell, I think, is the incredible success of Kentucky Kynect. They don't call it Obamacar...

Mention the Defense Department these days and you'll get shit from both the left and the right. The left hates everything they do and fa...

I miss Christopher Hitchens. I didn't always agree with him but man, he said some very accurate and funny shit. Take, for example, this ...

A couple of weeks ago the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Northwestern football players were employees and could form a union . ...

The CBO and Joint Committee on Taxation released a series of new estimates Monday on the law’s costs and the number of people it will cover....

Samuel Warde has a piece up about political discussions on digital media that is fucking hilarious. It looks like it's been up for awhi...

A very interesting speech from a man obviously trying to broaden his base in a run for the presidency in 2016. There's a lot of the u...

Question for my readers...I was recently engaged in a discussion about the racism in our judicial and criminal justice system (see this link...

At least that's what Mike Huckabee thinks.  How many times can "freedom die" tonight before we stop listening to these infants?

A very hopeful piece which I found illustrates that it's best to leave behind stereotypes. Mr. Awda, alone among Saudi clerics, openly...

A fragment of an ancient Egyptian papyrus known as the "Gospel of Jesus's Wife," unveiled in 2012, shows no evidence of being ...

Here's a handy chronology of the history of United States immigration laws. A few points to take note of... Chinese Exclusion Acts /...

“The GOP has kind of become talk radio, an echo chamber where people are not interested in actually legislating or compromising or fixing Am...

GOP Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, the Republican chair of the House Armed Services Committee, says he’s satisfied with how the US military   an...

Paul Krugman's recent piece on the Affordable Care Act pretty much sums everything up to current status. Some choice cuts... But wait...

From Ohio Gun, Knife, and Military Shows... LOADED FIREARMS ARE NOT PERMITTED ON THE GUN SHOW PREMISES. EXHIBITORS AND PATRONS ARE REQUIRE...

A few weeks ago one of the web guys for The Colbert Report posted a dumb Asian joke that flopped. That raised calls for the cancellation of ...

Alex Hribal went on a stabbing rampage yesterday at his high school in Murrsyville, Pennsylvania and sadly illustrated, once again, that we ...

Here is a longer version of the Jeb Bush comments on immigration which I think is more insightful.  Interesting to note that 40 percent ...

Take a look at this photo. Wow. Sort of puts in all in perspective, doesn't it? For more details on this story ...

Mississippi Approves Religious Freedom Bill, Governor Signs It Into Law Hmm...let's see...their Sharia Law=BAD but our Sharia Law=GOOD...

Senator Ted Cruz, Republican from Texas, speaking on Jeb Bush's recent remarks on immigration, said the following. We’re a nation of ...

The Affordable Care Act  has cut Kentucky's uninsured population by more than 40 percent, signing up roughly 360,000 residents since en...

Yep. Pretty much. 

Investigators now believe that the most recent shooting at Fort Hood was not due to mental illness, but rather an argument over the denial o...

I'm always rather cynical about poll results, but this one was pretty funny : the less people know about where Ukraine is, the more the...

Well, there went every anti immigration reform argument down in flames. Very impressive, Mr. Bush...four words I thought I would never say...

Colin and Andrea Chisholm, the welfare king and queen, were arrested in Florida after they were deported from the Bahamas . They received ...

As is usually the case on Sunday, I'm feeling reflective and have a question for my readers. Consider for a moment that you are presiden...

Gander Mountain is a great example of the kind of leadership we need on gun safety from the private sector of our country. Given how many d...

This piece by John Saward is simply a masterpiece. His details of the modern American male are dead on right. Example... Being flagrantly...

The silence from the Gun Cult after the SECOND Fort Hood shooting has been deafening and it's now clear why. Military personnel who a...

The wisdom of crowds is a concept that arose in 1906, when British statistitian Francis Galton observed a competition at a fair where 800...

There was once a wildly popular professional sport that is even more boring than football and NASCAR: pedestrianism. In the 1870s and 1880s...

Liberals are running around today with their hair on fire after yesterday's SCOTUS ruling on campaign contributions. The "end is ...

The intent of the Founding Fathers in writing the Constitution is always heavily debated when cases go before the Supreme Court. The Court&#...

Sarah Palin recently called Paul Ryan's latest budget "a joke" saying "it is STILL not seeing the problem; it STILL is n...

The president has a good couple of days and the photo above shows that there is a spring in his st...

Rand Paul, on deportation. The bottom line is, the Hispanic community, the Latino community is not going to hear us until we get beyond th...

It looks like the Affordable Care Act has surpassed its revised goal and now has hit its original goal of seven million enrollees. The GOP h...

When I was in college in the late 1970s the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota had a classroom outfitted with TV scre...

Last night my family and some friends tuned in to the series finale of the CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother. I have watched the show from...