By now, with all luck, the vast majority of the people out there following the Theater of Scandal in Washington are nursing the whiplash from the last couple weeks and cataloging the details slowly being revealed as the days pass…. Read More ›
Culture
Obama Wears Teflon; His Voters Think It’s Free…
The shade of Tricky Dick Nixon hangs over the White House in the fervid imaginings of even such old pros as House Speaker John Boehner (R), who has now demanded Benghazi e-mails from the White House, allegedly under Tea Party… Read More ›
Brain Imaging Hangs Over Us Like Damocles’ Sword…
If the Mighty seem reluctant to air the Benghazi affair, the reluctance is trivial compared to the defenses in place against the threat of brain imaging. You’ve heard of Behghazi; have you heard of brain imaging discoveries? Right. Scientific research… Read More ›
Until Natural Death
Yesterday, an article titled Doctor vs. Patient in Texas appeared on the conservative group blog American Thinker. It tells of a bill making its way through the Texas legislature on the subject of end of life decisions, specifically “Do Not… Read More ›
Nerd Prom? Hardly
So, the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner is now the “Nerd Prom”? Still stuck in high school, are we? I understand the moniker has been building for a few years, but this year, that’s the headline. A lot of… Read More ›
Why Our Governments Never Last… (In Case You Have Wondered)
A tribal chief is a politician or he doesn’t remain chief. That has always and everywhere been so, likely a reflection of human DNA. In poor tribes, a chief works with the tribesmen; the arrival of economic surplus, changes that…. Read More ›
Bombing Is NOT American Conservative Style
After a week of media wishful thinking, hoping to be able to blame American conservatives who are armed true believers in the United States and Christianity for something none of us would ever consider doing, it’s time to address the… Read More ›
Weapons Unlimited
Now that the Occupier of the White House is using the families who lost children in the Sandy Hook tragedy as props to push the idea that guns kill people, rather than people using guns killing other people, and the… Read More ›
Progress Brought By Progressive Government?
The reports following are a sampling of those in the news of the last few days, a representation of one aspect of our current reality. They are simply facts, gleaned from the news, followed by a question for you to… Read More ›
Girls, A National Commodity
With the news this week that some judge who obviously is oblivious to the fact that everywhere else on earth The Pill is labelled a Class I carcinogen (not to mention causes all sorts of catastrophic cardio-vascular events) ruled, as… Read More ›
Obama Culture Shock; 51% Of Viewers Will Watch The Tonight Show No Matter What
By Jon Matthews, Producer/Host, That Radio Show “People will pay more to be entertained than educated.” (Johnny Carson) COMMEMTARY – An article from “Townhall Daily” by Mark Davis caught my eye this morning as I panned through my emails. As… Read More ›
The Social Media Travesty
As of this online publication, the U.S. Debt Clock web site reports a national debt of $16.7 trillion (that’s roughly $147,000 per taxpayer). The deficit for fiscal year 2013 is reportedly $901 billion. The unemployment rate is listed at 7.7%… Read More ›
The End of Hegemony
Webster New World Dictionary defines hegemony as “social structures holding society together (i.e. “the hegemony”) include: authority, morality, sexual restraint, monogamous marriage, personal responsibility, patriotism, national unity, community, tradition, heredity, education, conservatism, language, Christianity, law and truth.” These are the… Read More ›
A Sign of the Times: the Spread of Meat Bingo
Lest anyone on the coasts think that we out here in flyover country don’t know how to adapt or adopt practices from other parts of the world, the people of the mid-Mississippi River Valley have come up with a way… Read More ›
The Great Gathering Day Two – CPAC 3/15/13 – Full Videos
The fun and speeches continue on day two of the 40th annual CPAC gathering in Washington D.C. A full range of speakers sure to incite some debate and maybe even a bit of outrage from all points of the ideological… Read More ›
The Best Of The Walking Dead
Love it or hate it, the AMC hit The Walking Dead features some of the best songs of any television series in recent memory. I’ve provided a decent sampling of the very best for you below. Is there anything that… Read More ›
It’s About Priorities, Stupid
So, the other day I wrote here about how there’s an ongoing and tremendous problem with a lack of leadership in D.C., and how the lack of accountability shown by our “leaders” contributes to (causes really) the inaction, gridlock and… Read More ›
Time To Register Books And Put Reasonable Restrictions On The 1st Amendment
President Obama and his progressive allies have recently told us that even the most draconian of gun laws must be passed because “If we save even one life from gun violence, it’s worth it.” While that’s an amazingly ignorant, infantile,… Read More ›
Propaganda: An American Export
In the interest of keeping a straight record, and thus keeping discussion above the table on messaging, it’s time to take a look at American culture and how it was shaped in the 20th century before Josef Goebbels got his… Read More ›
Restoring Our Republic Through The Great White Hope
By Jon Matthews, That Radio Show “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot in things racial, we have always been, and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation… Read More ›