Author: Steven D

Too Many Americans Are Gullible

According to this poll by Reuters and IPSOS, a solid majority of Americans want the deficit cut. Their minds must have been embedded with the idea that magically cutting the deficit will solve all our economic woes. With...

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Sen. Lindsey G. Wants War with Iran

I know it is election season. I know Republican politicians for the last decade have been willing to say anything (Hello, Dick Cheney, and you too George Bush) to make counties with no capability to attack the United States into...

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Dems: Why it Pays to Fight

Hard to believe (not!) but Justice Scalia doesn’t believe in a right of privacy (unless you are Dick Cheney of a major corporation trying to defeat Democrats by funding astro-turf PACs — see, for example, the recent...

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Casual Observation

Yesterday I saw someone with a black “I Support Zombies” magnetic car ribbon attached to it. I immediately assumed the car’s owner must be a Tea Party member. Then I thought maybe he or she was mocking the Tea...

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