Posts Tagged ‘world war II’

West Virginia and the party that hates coal

July 6th, 2010 | 1 Comment

1943. There were no Civil Rights Acts.  For that matter, there weren’t even 50 states.  The world was at war.  Israel didn’t exist.  Everything ran on coal. That was also the last time West Virginia elected a Republican Senator in a regular election. Candidate Year Party W. Chapman Revercomb 1943 Republican Harley Kilgore 1946 Democrat [...]

Bertha Lewis loves socialists

April 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Bertha Lewis, CEO of Acorn, is proud to be a socialist. She applauds anyone who calls themself a socialist.  But, that’s not the best part: “Any group that says, ‘I’m young, I’m Democratic, and I’m a socialist,’ is all right with me. You know that’s no light thing to do — to actually say, I’m [...]

The Nobel Prize for good intentions

October 12th, 2009 | No Comments

President Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize.  Although some are scratching their heads over why, I’m not.  It’s quite obvious and the Nobel peeps even said why: “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” Some were somewhat dubious of his accomplishments: “Frankly to be nominated after he has been in [...]

Republicans and the Cold War

March 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Ever read one of those posts that just puzzles you?  I do that all the time.  Kinda like sitting in a chair that’s about to tilt over.  Sometimes it’s fun, sometimes it hurts.  I was reading a post by Andrew Pavelyev in The New Majority and got that feeling.  He meanders until he reaches his [...]

When in doubt, whip out that race card

June 10th, 2008 | No Comments

Spike Lee has an issue with Clint Eastwood’s “Flags of Our Fathers“.  Now, the issue is that according to Lee, Eastwood didn’t include any blacks.  Eastwood’s argument is there weren’t any at this particular event, the flag raising.  Now, they are both right.  Eastwood could have given them a parting shot just to acknowledge they [...]

Obama wants to talk to his enemies

May 7th, 2008 | No Comments

Barack Obama laid an egg last night ( From Hotair ): The other side can label and name-call all they want, but I trust the American people to recognize that it is not surrender to end the war in Iraq so that we can rebuild our military and go after Al Qaida’s leaders. I trust [...]

New World Order?

July 17th, 2007 | 8 Comments

I have often heard people say so-and-so is part of the New World Order. Now, up until now I always just came to the conclusion whenever I heard that whoever was saying it was slightly askew in their thinking. However, I came to the conclusion that wasn’t a nice thing to do since I was [...]

Comparing Sharia law and fascism

July 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Shaun Mullen over at The Moderate Voice takes offense to President Bush comparing Iraq to World War II: The bravery of the men and women in Iraq has never been an issue, but to compare the global pushback against fascism with Iraq dishonors World War II veterans and their families, friends and fellow citizens on [...]