You’ve got to ask yourself… just what does Obama really want to accomplish with his immigration activism? Is it truly as obvious as it seems? Is it really the case that he cares about nothing more than getting votes for the Democratic Party? I guess. I can’t believe how obvious he is about it though: […]
Continue reading →Politics in the US has become more divided than ever. The right and the left have become even more extreme and even less compromising on their views. And Obama sees this as a problem: What you’ve seen with our politics, partly because of gerrymandering, partly because of the Balkanization of media so people just watch […]
Continue reading →I’m really angry with the extremely uncivil way puppet pundits, talk-pieces, internet jocks, web bullies, and other idiots have been treating Bowe Bergdahl and his family. It wasn’t but a few days after his release before the entire conservative world was dumping on Bergdahl and his father for what seemed to me to be tenuously […]
Continue reading →The Secret Service showed up at the house of Joshua Black, a Republican candidate for the Florida House, after this inflammatory tweet: “I’m past impeachment [for President Obama]. It’s time to arrest and hang him high.” Not smart, Joshua Black. Not smart at all. If Joshua Black had not been, well, black, this would have […]
Continue reading →The interpreter for the deaf at the Nelson Mandela memorial service held in South Africa was apparently a fake. He was not signing in any recognized sign language. He was apparently just waving his hands in the air; his gestures meant nothing to anyone but himself. Bruno Druchen, the national director of the Deaf Federation […]
Continue reading →Yesterday was the 150th memorial of the Gettysburg Address. Aglow with Lincoln hagiography and pride at our cultural progress, many modern Americans don’t understand the real significance of the Gettysburg Address for its time. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to open this can of worms. Opting not to give a speech […]
Continue reading →Obama’s election was an apparent milestone in American race relations. Less than one hundred and fifty years after most black people in the U.S. had been enslaved, a “black man” became president. I know many black and white people voted for him largely because of the opportunity to contribute to something of great historic significance. […]
Continue reading →As if business owners in the United States weren’t discouraged enough already with high taxes, red tape, and an uncertain market, President Obama had some choice words for them in a speech he delivered Friday to supporters in Roanoke, Virginia: If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. […]
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