Was NAFTA a plot by illegal aliens to monopolize the food industry? Boy, are there a lot of dots to connect over the whole immigration issue right now, a disharmonic convergence of factors ranging from the consequences of Clinton’s disastrous NAFTA bill to how the new Arizona law, which in true Rovian fashion, seems designed to suppress voter turnout in …
It’s not every day that Bill Maher gets it right, but when he does, he really does. America is loaded with “Lizard People.” “People” who wonder where the sun goes at night. People with the collective mental acumen of crab grass.
Crank up the volume Nice to report a feel good story on the economy for a change. I speak, of course, of the Cash For Clunkers program that was hugely over-subscribed, exhausting its initial $1 billion funding in a mere six days. At an average of $4,000 per carbon spewing, global climate heating clunker, that means 250,000 new cars vanished …
Tick tock, tick tock… Euripides observed that those whom the gods would destroy they first make crazy. Today’s NY Times article, Palin’s Long March to a Short-Notice Resignation documents the Greek tragedy that has become Sarah Baradiva’s sorry little life. Proving that the law of karma is chock-a-block full with irony and not a little humor, the writers save the …
Yee haw! Ridin’ high at the Creation Museum’s triceratops rodeo Among the many problems confronting the Rethuglicans in their attempt to rebuild themselves into a viable political party is this one, reflected in this poll last year from Gallup: PRINCETON, NJ — There is a significant political divide in beliefs about the origin of human beings, with 60% of Republicans …
Geithner & Summers manning the oars after Bush decided to empty the boat’s bilges by drilling a hole in its bottom Bush sinks the economic ship of state. Obama launches the life rafts, piloted by Wall Street insiders Timmeh Geithner and Larry Summers. But the sharks (hedge funds, private equity firms) are circling and there’s lots of stormy weather ahead. …
Newt Gingrich as the avenging Sumerian god, Gozer the Traveler In their devastating November 4th defeat at the hands of an inexperienced, junior senator from Illinois, the Rethuglicans are in desperate search of a leader, someone that can match the intelligence, boldness, charm, and overwhelming popularity of Barack Hussein Obama. While their own humiliated presidential candidate, the anachronistic John McCain …
