Month: January 2014

Watching My Back

The 2008 primaries took place a long time ago, and we ought to be able to forgive and forget a lot of things that took place in the heat of the battle. News that Hillary’s aides kept a ranked hit-list of people who they...

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Fact-Free Zone

When I talked about the Truthification of Public Discourse I had people like John Podhoretz in mind. Facts simply don’t matter for these folks. The worst thing about the IRS scandal was that it was treated as a partisan...

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What’s in the Water Down There?

Let’s go back to Texas for some more fun: In an excerpt of the book published at Huffington Post, the pastor of Dallas, Texas’ 11,000-member First Baptist Church, [Robert] Jeffress wrote, “For the first time in...

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Birds of a Feather Stick Together

When I saw that Karl Rove had said that Chris Christie’s handling of the bridge-closing scandal would give “him some street cred with some tea party Republicans” and essentially proved that he had the right...

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Adgendas and Ideoligies

I think we may have found someone to replace Sarah Palin. On Monday, she made an appearance at a Fort Worth, Texas forum for candidates running to serve on the State Board of Education: It began when North Richland Hills’...

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