Koch Suckers

Proving that while intelligence may be limited, stupidity is not Getting people to consistently vote against their own self-interest is one of the more fascinating dimensions of American politics, a triumph of modern propaganda technique. You’d think that people who can barely survive on low paying, non-union jobs and have no health insurance for themselves or their families would support …

Arizona Train Wreck Brewing

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUPKKbmWMZ8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] “I have done so much.” “We have done everything we could possibly do.” “We have did [sic] what was right for Arizona.” If you can’t be focused when it counts, what are you like when it doesn’t count?

Open Cordoba House

Roman bridge leading to the Mezquita, or Mosque-Church, in Cordoba, Spain I got me a bone to pick with Sharif el-Gamal, the developer of the Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, originally called Cordoba House, on near the site of the former World Trade Center. While there are a variety of groups for and against its construction, the most frenzied …

The Dream Is Alive. . .

PHOENIX — Arizona Sen. John Sidney McCain faces voters again today. Although still considered one of the Senate’s most vulnerable incumbents, McCain is now the clear front-runner over barely sentient conservative challenger, J.D. Hayworth in Arizona’s Republican primary, and will be the Republican party candidate yet again, unless there’s some unforeseen organ failure before this fall. Hayworth, a former congressman, …

Gulf Ecocide Update

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…

Political Pornography

Buchanan invokes Godwin’s Law on the Newtster In a textbook case of the pot calling the kettle black, having professional bigot Pat Buchanan call Gangrene Gingrich “absurd” and “a political opportunist”  for comparing the proposed Park 51 Muslim community center to the Nazis and the Holocaust is like being called ugly by the alien in Predator. Nonetheless, Buchanan makes a …

Newton Leroy

Yes. This is the kind of scum that portends to run for the highest office in our land.