Confederate Americans (We Know Them As Something Else)
At the recommendation of a fellow Southerner, I'm currently reading a book I should have read long ago - Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic.
It's one of the most honest...
Message to the Lazy Left: THIS Is How It Starts!
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...
When Journalists Lie: Rewriting History
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.
Ron Paul: A Rose By Any Other Name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBbV7mURP0I
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...
Two Fat Men Walk Into a Bar … and Meet Chris Matthews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmvR_p7b2zQ&feature=player_embedded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5pbfD0WSqg&feature=player_embedded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BnAC2K0-gw&feature=player_embedded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMHqZ-KrdQQ&feature=player_embedded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amq6fcCESBk&feature=player_embedded
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...
Bill Maher Eats His Foot
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...
Attitude Problem
I was born a Democrat. My parents were Democrats before me. My father cast his first vote at 21 in 1936, for FDR. Four years later, when she turned...
Correction: Hillary Was Never a Progressive, but Johnny Reid Was …
What's totally oxymoronic is that Hillary has suddenly been reconstructed as the Great (and White) Progressive Hope.
The Tale of Two Women and the One Man Who Failed
How's this for an oxymoron?
Her Serene Highness Queen Ratfucker Omnipotent of Medialand, otherwise known as Arianna Huffington, came to Philadelphia yesterday to address the convention of theNational Association of...
The Enemy Within
There's been a campaign going on around the blogosphere for awhile, advocating that MSNBC ban Pat Buchanan from appearing on the network. Buchanan is a political analyst, who, in...