Archive for April, 2015

What If… Hillary’s Campaign Imploded? Who fills the void?

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Most people believe that the Bush Administration invaded Iraq in 2003 without a plan for what to do once they had overthrown Saddam. But they DID have a plan. ONE plan. To replace him with a man named Ahmed Chalabi, an Iraqi exile that tried & failed for nearly a decade to convince the Clinton White House that Saddam possessed […]

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April 27, 2015
Posted in: Election, General, Politics, Scandals, Seems Obvious to Me

OKC Bombing 20 years later. Remembering Right Wing Inspired Domestic Terrorism

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Remember when terrorists were lily-white Conservative Americans? Religious fanatics and neo-Nazi’s alike, the people we had to fear most in this world weren’t the ones in the Middle East providing us with all that lovely oil, it was anti-government militia groups, bombing abortion clinics, the Olympic Park in Atlanta and a federal building in Oklahoma City. Those same gun-toting […]

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April 20, 2015
Posted in: Crime, Guns & Violence, National Security, Partisanship, Politics, Right-Wing Insanity, Terrorism, War

If Hillary is nominee in 2016, she has my vote. Here is how to win my SUPPORT.

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At the start of the 2008 presidential race, I was a Hillary Clinton supporter. I was a “Health care Reform” voter and she had made reform a key plank in her campaign. But as the race dragged on (with the help of Republican’s engaging in what Rush Limbaugh coined “Operation Chaos”), the debate turned nasty between her and […]

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April 13, 2015
Posted in: Election, Politics, Rants, Scandals, Seems Obvious to Me, War

These “Religious Freedom” laws were the same counter argument to the 1965 Civil Rights Act

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When the Johnson Administration pushed for equal rights for blacks in 1964, the Religious Right opposed the bill on the grounds that it was impinging on their rights. Their “religious” right to be a bigot. They claimed that The Almighty himself segregated the world by putting people of different races on different continents, and that forcing people […]

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April 7, 2015
Posted in: Civil Rights, Crime, Politics, Racism, Religion