Moonage Political Webdream

Now, I have taken a little bit slack, not much, but a little for sure, for asserting that Andrea Yates deserved to die rather than be allowed to cop an insanity plea. IMO, if you’re capable of murder in a regular, semi-normal-function-as-yourself role, society has a right to defend itself from you and incarceration [...]

Robert Samuelson of Real Clear Politics has written a piece that backs up something I have claimed more than once here. Basically, Walmart is a diversion. Most recently this issue raised its ugly head when Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont were duking it out in the Connecticut primary. Both attended the same [...]

Fresh on the heels of the right to publicly declare your stupidity for all the world to see, I get this…..

It’s the local government that’s supposed to protect people from harm, not the feds, not Bush. Anyone that’s spent five minutes researching knows that. Did she vote to impeach Nagin or re-elect [...]

Things have changed in the US in a big way during my adult lifetime. And, it’s all the media’s fault. I have been a Republican my entire life. It wasn’t really a choice when I was young, but it has been for about 20 years. For about 100 years, there was [...]

Mayor Ray Nagin has been busy this week. First he attacked the very serious issue of rebuilding the World Trade Center. Then he has to address the issue of who sits where on schoolbuses.
What I’ve not seen one peep from Nagin about is this:

On practically the one year anniversary of Katrina, nothing about [...]

Independent Sources notes a phenomenon I have noticed for a long time on the internet:
Majority of Digg Commenters Appear to Believe that Latest Terrorist Scare is Propoganda€¦

It’s not restricted to terrorism.  Pick any topic you want, and there will be a ton of people advocating non-sensical opinions based on nothing but pure speculation fueled by [...]

At first, this headline just struck me as another shock and awe headline about nothing:
Experts: Sex slaves are often the girls next door
It then goes into a tale about a raid in New York City where they “freed” 70 sex slaves in brothels.  In this case, the “girls next door” were all Korean.  It then [...]

In July 2005, Congress was debating the Central America Free Trade Agreement.  It was a contentious debate falling pretty much along party lines.  The AFL-CIO lobbied heavily against it.  In the end, fifteen Democrats went against party lines and voted for it.  Because of that, it passed, 217-215.  The AFL-CIO was so incensed at the [...]

U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency€™s program, which she says violates the rights to free speech and privacy.

Not only did she rule on the merits of the case she asked to judge, she went above and beyond the call of duty [...]

Uh, I don’t think so. Just don’t look quite right to me. Maybe it’s the suit?