Month: March 2011

Wanker of the Day: Rand Paul

If you elect a lunatic to represent you, don’t be surprised when he behaves like a lunatic: At a hearing of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Thursday, Mr. Paul lambasted Kathleen Hogan, deputy...

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The Case Against a No-Fly Zone

How do you convince the American people that it is in their interests to embroil American soldiers in yet another Muslim civil war? First, you find some retired general who thinks setting up a no-fly zone in Libya is a piece of...

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Unity Deficit

Republicans vote in lockstep and Democrats do not. Republicans vote for terrible bills that they know are terrible, because that is what advances their overall cause. Republican centrists voted for the House GOP proposal despite...

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Scott Walker For President

There are a number of questions I asked myself last night regarding Governor Scott Walker’s reasons for forcing his Republican colleagues (comrades?) in the Wisconsin Senate to ram through a quite possibly illegal vote to...

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Casual Observation

So far, President Obama has been…I don’t want to say “following my advice,” but…doing exactly I would do about Libya if I were president. And I am extremely happy about it. He’s changing the...

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