Out: Telling Israel how many months or years they have to bomb Iran. In: Telling Israel how many days they have to bomb Iran. Yes, the window is still closing on Israel’s chance of survival, and it’s now down to only eight days! (Update: He has since revised it to three days!) I don’t think [...]
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Lately in the news we have been seeing a lot of what I call the “tyranny of negative emotion”. Common sense issues become controversies because someone, or a group of people, are negatively effected emotionally by it. The biggest story of this type is the mosque that they are planning to build in Manhattan. A [...]
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Class conflict. The very term takes the mind to thoughts of Marxism, class consciousness, and revolution. But there are other ways to view class conflicts besides that one paradigm. In the 21st century America will face a crisis. The desires of the ruling class will clash with the desires of the country class — the [...]
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A lot has been made of Michelle Obama’s trip to Spain, racking up hundreds of thousands in expenses. Meanwhile President Obama is trying to get the little people to “sacrifice” even more. All over the media people keep saying all these different things about the current political environment: they’re deaf, they’re ignorant, they don’t listen, [...]
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The Democratic push for votes continues to amaze. Most people are aware that liberals have utilized dead people, convicts, and multiple votes for a single person. They also have a few plots working with an eye to the future — statehood for Puerto Rico, and allowing millions of unaccounted lawbreakers (or “undocumented Democrats” as some [...]
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New York state just passed its budget, four months late. It’s a state with one of the highest debt loads and deficits in the nation, rivaling and perhaps exceeding California in some respects. Here is a micro example of how benefits have been shaved off over time, permitting some sweet deals for those in previous [...]
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A video that was done some time ago, but it feels oddly good to watch these days. Jason Mattera confronted Charlie Rangel on ethics issues:
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A lot has been made of plans to build a Mosque in New York City. The reason being is that it is close to the 9/11 site. The term being used for this controversy is “the ground zero mosque” but this biases the discussion from the start. Why? Because the mosque isn’t at ground zero, [...]
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A freshman Utah congressman has complained about the pointless bills that Congress deals with — honoring race tracks, golfers, and Stanley Cup winners. I say: let them do their ceremonial sports votes — if that’s all they did we’d be better off!
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It really is sad to read about a bunch of grown men holding back tears over such a thing. They mostly look like a bunch of writers and academics. The point of interest here is: the goal was to get a black president. It was not to get a COMPETENT president. Welcome to the era [...]
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Those darned teabaggers, they’re just too darned angry. That seems to be what we get told often by analysts and pundits. But it seems those very same journalists and pundits are just as hateful as everyone else. In comments send to Journolist, Sarah Spitz openly stated that she wanted to see Rush Limbaugh die during [...]
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This time an amendment in the patient protection section that allows for the taxing and tracking of gold coins. Has someone finally gotten around to reading the entire bill?
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Every conservatives favorite senator is back at it: “I’m going to vote for her because I believe the last election had consequences,” he said. “This president chose someone who is qualified, who has the experience and knowledge to serve on this court … and understands the difference between being a liberal judge and a politican.”… [...]
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Did you know that Ron Paul is the Kennedy-eque absentee landlord aristocrat of the Republican Party? Well if you didn’t you should definitely know … because he used the word “my” … to describe an election event in which he is taking part. The offending statement came in an e-mail a couple months ago (why [...]
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What can we learn from CPAC this year, like all other years? Killing muslims is more important than smaller government. One shining example of this is the results of the CPAC straw poll. Ron Paul was announced the winner with 31% of the vote and got a mix of applause and boo’s. This was followed [...]
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Of all places, Daily Kos actually has a good post on more scare tactics to keep the Fed status quo going. We have already heard that any audit of the Fed or any threat to its independence will cause everything to go to hell. Now if the Senate doesn’t re-confirm Time’s “Man of the Year”, [...]
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But the Russians could never keep long-term control of areas they seized — a problem the coalition has become painfully familiar with. In a 1986 memo that could mostly have been written today, the Soviet army’s chief of staff stated gloomily: “After seven years in Afghanistan there is not one square kilometre left untouched by [...]
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Apparently the health bill still fails to block illegal immigrants from getting coverage. Is anyone surprised?
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Mike Huckabee’s reputation as a pardon machine was examined somewhat during the 2008 campaign. Apparently it has happened yet again, and now four cops are dead. Is this blood on Huck’s hands?
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Masters of Context: Recent Shortcomings of Conservative Media
Many recent media driven stories, mostly from the conservative side, have been increasingly disturbing in their complete disregard for the context of the story. In fact it is more than disregard, we are now at the point of outright lying. The Drudge/Breitbart machine has mastered this process. Every day drudge spoon feeds links to readers [...]
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