Americans Elect feels like a Koch-Brothers-type Tea Partying of the Left and Indies. Exploit the anger and frustration of the constituency and drive them together under a populist tent…that’s in fact owned by the wealthy.

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, August 29, 2011

You start out in 1954 by saying, “N—-r, n—-r, n—-r.” By 1968 you can’t say “n—-r”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about [...]

I have it upon reliable authority that the East Coast earthquake was deliberately caused via collusion between Tim Geithner, Rahm Emmanuel, Ben Bernanke, Dave Axelrod and the owners of the Carnegie Deli to increase the relative real estate value of Miami Beach shore property (otherwise known as the “Jewish Riviera” [...]

A Cop Rapes a Woman at Gunpoint. An 11-Year-Old Rape Victim is Smeared. KBR sues a rape accuser for $2 Million. What is it with our inability to find justice for victims? If events of the last few months have sent any sort of message to women in America it’s [...]

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, August 26, 2011

The truth is that I am not political, at least in the sense that I don’t support any parties or candidates (though I did fight a zoning law once to be able to create the Earth in a non-residential area).

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, August 24, 2011

This is why I was particularly shocked to see Perlstein wantonly revise history in this interview with Chris Matthews earlier this week. It was directly the opposite of what actually happened in the first debate of 1960.

The first American Dream conference will take place October 3 – 5, 2011 in Washington, D.C.  I am posting a number of emails that I have received and will update this thread as more information becomes available. Please note: I am just no good at using WordPress and apologize for [...]

I know all there are scores of too-cool-for-school kids who hang out on Bill Maher’s Facebook page and stoke this little man’s enormously fragile ego. Bill’s always been a big fan of Ron Paul’s, although he’s not too keen on Rand Paul. I can’t figure out why, because their idealogy [...]

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat. George Carlin This is a short story set in America in the year 2030. President for life, Rick Perry has established Christian law in the country and rules [...]

If I was President and Congress was like, “No way we’re taxing rich people and stuff!” I would be so like, “Uh-uh, you’re gonna tax rich people, bitch!” and they would be so like, “Damn! Okay! We’ll tax rich people, just get out of my face!”

        Two sides of the same coin. Hot air. Update:  Actually, I learned something from this exercise that shouldn’t have surprised me, but which sparked a memory: Rush Limbaugh, expostulating about MSNBC, is positively astounded at the change in Chris Matthews. Chris Matthews! Seems that Chris, at [...]

Coincidence? I think NOT! YOU DECIDE!!! Enjoy!                    

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, August 19, 2011

Ron Paul isn’t just a fanatic Ayn Rand devotee like the son he claims he didn’t name after her… in fact, that is the least of his shortcomings.

 The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy – they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator. Rick Perry Where to begin with this guy. People think we’re in an unprecedented [...]

  Let’s just let these facts speak for themselves… more to come. First, a few gems from the man who wants access to “the button”; “I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts.” “What happened in America so that mothers and fathers who leave their [...]

This morning, I kicked a foul-mouthed woman off my Facebook page. She was a totally unreconstructed PUMA, who posted this article from the UK broadsheet, The Telegraph. I’ve nothing against foul mouths. I can swear with the best of them and in four languages. Hell, I live in Britain, where [...]

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When I was 9 I became seriously ill with a very severe case of bronchitis that wouldn’t respond to antibiotics. I developed an extremely high fever (105 F at one point!) and was hospitalized. I actually don’t remember very much about it. I drifted in out and of consciousness for [...]

Would you rather be pushed off into the sea on an ice floe or hit by a train? This is not so much a literal choice of ways to die as it is a figurative choice for voters in electing either Mitt Romney or Rick Perry.

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, August 15, 2011

As the HCR debate continues there are still some prevailing myths that prevail over the ACA law. Most myths are slanted right but key myths slant left as well.