Zombie Politics

I think I will start with my grandfather who served as a combat engineer in the Pacific from 1942-1945. He lived from 1916 to 2008 and saw t...

In so many ways, the Republican Party is fucked. As I have wondered previously, what are they good at? And why do people vote for them? They...

Further proof that our government bailing out GM worked beyond expectations was seen in April's sales figures. In fact, all three automa...

Whew. Another apocalypse has been averted. Harold Camping, who--the media must point out in every article about him--was once a civil engine...

I suppose it was inevitable that Elizabeth Warren, the defacto head of the new consumer protection agency in the government, would get attac...

Over the last couple of months my colleague has been writing about why the rich are different. That is, how they can make money in ways that...

I have found quite a few of your statements regarding the Constitution of the United States, the quality of public school education and gene...

Well, things were certainly interesting at the State Capital on Friday. Bradlee Dean, a controversial pastor from our state, delivered the ...

President Obama certainly stirred up a shit storm this week with his "Arab Spring" speech. Israel denounced his call to return to ...

When New Gingrich first appeared on the national scene in the early Nineties I kind of liked him. He was a proponent of space exploration at...

Check out this story. Don't you think we need a lot more of this in our country today?

Well, now it's up to government prosecutors. The case has been perfectly laid out by the Senate subcommittee on Investigations in their ...

Last week, President Obama stuck his toe into the water of the immigration debate. Not much happened largely because he needs to stick in mo...

Many of us, at one time or another, has had a person come up to them on the street and say something crazy. "The universe is white...

I'm going to put up some smaller posts until I feel comfortable that Blogger has its head out of its buttocks. Here's a story that f...

As most of you already know, Blogger has been down for the better part of two days. I'm just throwing this post up to see if things go w...

Check out this article in the latest CSM. Arizona's conservative politics – and Phoenix's dominant role – lead some in Tucson to c...

I found a new blog I plan on making a daily stop. Jim Wright is money. Period. The part about this post that struck me was this: Blowha...

I'm nearly certain this is how some see it!