Sixteen Commandments of the Tea Party, in no particular order. 1. Always distort the truth and lie when asked a direct question. If you get caught you can always blame it on the liberal media or smart people (or in extreme cases Kenyan socialists). 2. Blame Bill Clinton and Barack Obama for the Bush years. 3. Cheating […]
I won’t be pleased with a budget deal unless the AARP and Grover Norquist both pull their hair out. Then we’ll know we made some progress. News flash: compromise and sacrifice are hard. We need to reduce spending and obligations on everything from Medicare to Defense to Ag subsidies. No sacred cows. And unfortunately, we […]
It seems that remains ongoing confusion regarding President Obama’s routine signing on March 16th of this year of “Executive Order – National Defense Resources Preparedness“. [http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness ] Among other things it seems several conservative based news organizations are spreading a lot of misinformation regarding this order to include claims spanning from Obama signing himself new […]
I was discussing the Trayvon Martin case and the New Black Panther Party recently and wanted to share some thoughts. I began the conversation by noting that I have been ignoring the New Black Panthers. To begin I want to clarify that I am not saying that we as a society should ignore the New […]
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”. Nowhere […]