SYNDICATED COLUMN: America’s “Moderates” Are Wild, Crazy — and More Extreme...
Every damn second of every stupid day in this brain-dead nation, the insipid overlords of America’s inane corporate news media put out the same message: extremism is extremely bad. 9/11? Carried out...
View ArticleBaghdad 2014
As Iraq spirals into sectarian civil war, one of the recurring stories on American media outlets is the mixed feelings of the American veterans who served in the invasion and subsequent occupation....
View ArticleSYNDICATED COLUMN: A Hillary Clinton Candidacy is an Incredibly Depressing...
Women of a certain age are thrilled by the prospect of a possible President Hillary. Over-50 females are so overjoyed that one of their own might finally achieve the nation’s top political post —...
View ArticleOn Brian Williams: How Liars Express Our Values
Originally published at Breaking Modern: You can tell a lot about a society’s values from its lies. After World War II, Germany abandoned its old values of obedience, conformity, militarism and most...
View ArticleNone Knowns
Asked whether he would have attacked Iraq knowing what we know now, that Saddam didn’t have WMDs and that civil war would result, Jeb Bush echoed his brother Dubya, saying that he would indeed have...
View ArticleHillary Is Just Like You
Acknowledging that she isn’t viewed as likeable enough, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is launching a charm offensive to convince Americans that she is a regular Jane Sixpack, just like us.
View ArticleHillary on Instagram
The Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign is now on Instagram, with a light joke about “Hard Choices”: a reference to a photo of her pantsuits in red, white and blue. It’s part of the effort to make a...
View ArticleTrainer Troops in Iraq? Doomed to Failure
Originally published by ANewDomain.net: President Obama is deploying 450 troops, trainers of Iraqi soldiers, back to Iraq. To fight ISIS this time. The media says this sort of half-measure, neither big...
View ArticleSYNDICATED COLUMN: I Dunno If Hillary is Evil, But She Sure is Dumb
To her enemies and many of her supporters, the brief on Hillary Clinton is that she’s evil but smart. “Smart leadership for the 21st century,” declares her website. Cynical and calculating she may be,...
View ArticleViolence Has No Place in Politics
Following violence at Donald Trump’s raucous rallies, Hillary Clinton says that violence has no place in politics. But what about the violence in hers?
View ArticleSYNDICATED COLUMN: 7 Reasons I Won’t Vote for Hillary Clinton
To my many friends and readers who plan to vote for Hillary Clinton: please stop bullying me. Also please lay off other people, progressives and liberals and traditional Democrats and...
View ArticleSYNDICATED COLUMN: Hiring John Bolton is Donald Trump’s Most Dangerous...
Personnel is policy, they say in Washington. The appointment of John Bolton as national security advisor is by far President Trump’s most dangerous decision. When the president considers foreign...
View ArticleIf Other Nations Mourned Like the U.S.
What if other countries mourned their national tragedies the way we do? The United States reads off the names of the dead during annual commemoration ceremonies and builds walls with names. Other...
View ArticleMedia Censors the Opinions of 37% of Americans. And Now They’re Gloating...
Thirty-seven percent of American citizens are socialist or communist. That’s far more people than voted for either Hillary Clinton (28% of eligible voters) or Donald Trump (27%) in 2016. The majority...
View ArticleImpeachable/Not Impeachable
Democrats who allowed Republican presidents latitude on war crimes have decided to draw the line on defending Joe Biden from Trump’s attempt to have Ukraine investigate the former vice president and...
View ArticleThe Government That Cried Wolf
For as long as anyone can remember, the United States government has wallowed in fear mongering. Now there’s actually a real legitimate threat to the national health, and many people, especially the...
View ArticleOn Foreign Policy, Joe Biden is Worse Than Trump
Trump is terrible. Biden is just as bad. In some ways the Democrat is worse. You shouldn’t vote for either one. Trump is erratic and unpredictable, which is...
View ArticleA Mask Too Far
Conservatives and Republicans slavishly follow government mandates on just about everything. So why are they freaking out over being asked to wear a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic?
View ArticleWill the Media’s Newfound Stridency Continue under Biden? No.
“In his first rally since losing the election last month, President Trump continued to spout conspiracy theories about voter fraud, falsely claiming that he had defeated President-elect Joe...
View ArticleYour Opinion Doesn’t Matter. Protests Matter.
Your opinion doesn’t matter—not by itself. No matter how heartfelt or important to you personally, your thoughts about Gaza or legal weed or the war on skinny jeans don’t mean anything...
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