Archive for April, 2010

Guilty until proven Innocent

Last week, the state of Arizona passed the most… for lack of a better word… Fascistic… anti illegal immigration law in the history of the United States, allowing police officers to ask for “proof of citizenship” of anyone they suspect is in the country illegally. And if that person can not produce such identification (ie: [...]

OKC bombing 15 years later. Comparing today’s hysteria to 1995.

Last week, at an event commemorating the 15th anniversary of the bombing of the “Murrah Federal Building” in Oklahoma City, former President Clinton compared the violent extremist rhetoric coming out of the “Tea Party” movement to the violent extremist rhetoric we heard coming out of the “militia” movement of the early 1990′s. Naturally, Republicans were [...]

If Obama were a Republican, they’d be singing his praises by now.

I am NOT one of those people that thinks President Obama is a “closet Republican”, nor a full-blown Conservative. I lump people who say things like that in the same group of Tea-nuts that call President Bush “a Liberal” (yes, those people really are out there), and those who, during the 2008 presidential campaign, called [...]

Massey Mine Disaster debunks Self-Regulating Free-Market Myth

You hear it all the time. Some self-proclaimed “Libertarian” or “Free-Market Republican” will argue against “government regulation” and insists that “corporations will always do what is in the best interests of the community because their survival depends upon it.” That’s the very cornerstone of “Free Market” ideology. Ron Paul built his political career upon it. [...]

Freepers, Birthers, Morons of all stripe, You didn’t get mad…

The following excellent viral email has been making the rounds for a few weeks now and deserves a link you can direct your friends to. The source of the original message is unknown. I have revised it slightly, corrected a few mistakes, added a couple of lines of my own, and added supporting links. Freepers, [...]

April Fools? Obama opens drilling to draw GOP votes. Will he ever learn?

At first I thought, “This has to be an April Fool’s Day joke.” Last Wednesday, in a move that has infuriated environmentalists and most Democrats, President Obama announced that he would end a longstanding moratorium on offshore drilling off the South East coast and in Northern Alaska (red states) in advance of the upcoming vote [...]