Month: August 2010

The Republicans of Louisiana just nominated David Vitter to be their U.S. Senator for another six years. He got 88% of the vote. How’s that for family values? Cheat on your wife and have a prostitute dress you up in a...

Offered without comment: Olga Sanchez, 79, of Tampa, had never been to a rally in Washington. But Sanchez, a retired administrative assistant, watches Beck on television every day. And when she heard him announce plans for the...

I never realized what a scoundrel Theodore Bilbo was until I read his Wikipedia page. And, yet, Mississippians just get kept electing and promoting him anyway. Accepting bribes? No problem. Hiding in a barn to avoid being served...

by watching YouTube videos of Martin Luther King’s speech and going about my daily routine. I feel sorry for anyone who feels compelled to watch The Beckoning, for to me it means they are a lost soul, damaged by the...

It has become almost universally accepted in Washington that government needs to work with the private sector in various capacities in order to function effectively.  The track record from recent years suggests exactly the...