Archive for 'Terrorism' Category
The List II: Michele Bachmann
REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Everybody knows someone like Michele Bachmann. The “Tall Tale” teller, the “Everyone’s out to get you” paranoid, or the Bible-thumper that [...]
The List II: Mitt Romney
REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Welcome to our first installment of “The List II”: An archive of links to comments, stated policies/agendas, misconduct, hypocrisy or just [...]
The TRUE Legacy of 9/11 is the failure of Conservatism.
I must have mulled over a dozen different ways to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 here on Mugsy’s Rap Sheet. Back on the first anniversary, I created a “Tribute video” that was mostly news clips from that day showing both towers being hit and smoking wreckage at the Pentagon and in Shanksville. But I [...]
Why Crediting Bush for OBL’s capture is dead wrong
If you’re like me, you just spent the better part of the past week listening to Right-wingers dismiss President Obama’s great achievement of finally getting Osama bin Laden, and give most of the credit to President Bush. Their arguments for doing so are filled with wingnut torture fantasies and baseless assumptions, not a single one of which holds [...]
This All Sounds Terribly Familiar
Right down to the day in fact. March 19th, the eighth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the United States once again engages in military air strikes against a Middle Eastern nation. Only this time, the expansion of our military into a third front is being committed by a President that was elected by a [...]
Arizona shooting tells us nothing… and everything
(Note: Apologies to subscribers that received a notification of a three year old post on the 2008 election. Notification was due to an error on my part after referencing it below. Sorry. – Mugsy) The shooting of 19 20 people during a public appearance of Arizona Congresswoman Rep. Gabrielle Giffords by a mentally unbalanced [...]
Remembering the (REAL) world after 9/11 (with photos).
Special 9/11 Edition (Breaking News: This update is also now in question. More information as it develops: It is now being reported that the Florida pastor threatening to burn 200 Kor’ans on the anniversary of 9/11 has agreed to cancel his offensive stunt after meeting with the leader of the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” in NYC, [...]
Good Republican. Bad Republican.
So which do you want first? “Good Republicans” are as rare as four leaf clovers, while “Bad Republicans” are as common as three-leaf clovers in a dung-filled cow pasture. So let’s start with the good: First, I feel vindicated in my support of Robert Gates for Secretary of Defense. I took some flack from more [...]
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 [...]
The Party of NO claims mantle of bipartisanship
More often than you might think, I’ll start off writing the weeks blog entry, only to end up writing something else entirely. This is one of those weeks. This particular blog entry started off noting the eerie similarities between the dramatic rise in Right Wing extremism and the very people they claim to hate: Muslim [...]
