Category Archives: Current Affairs & History

Borking may not be as fun in the afterlife

Posted on December 22, 2012 by

Somewhere in purgatory, I’m betting that Robert Bork wants to speak with Ted Kennedy and the feeling is not mutual. Here’s one vision of how that might go: Attired in scuba gear and standing beside a 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 with … Continue reading →

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Confirmed: Obama’s blackness placed in blind trust

Posted on October 2, 2012 by

Under threat of subpoena based on the Freedom of Information Act, the White House confirmed yesterday that Barack Obama’s cultural blackness was placed in a blind trust beginning during his campaign for president in 2008 and expected to last until … Continue reading →

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Who defends food rationing?

Posted on September 1, 2012 by

There is a delicious article in the Foreign Policy magazine by Michael Moynihan which highlights the lengths to which people will go to assuage their ideological positions. So who defends food rationing? Travel guidebooks who are trying to find an … Continue reading →

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Obama: Just un-American

Posted on July 18, 2012 by

Charles Murray on the absurdity of someone who’s never built anything lecturing those who have: There’s a standard way for Americans to celebrate accomplishment. First, we call an individual onto the stage and say what great things that person has … Continue reading →

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Who is Eric Holder?

Posted on June 29, 2012 by

It is with indescribable joy that I watch Eric Holder and his defenders blame his latest incompetence on race. Just deserts. Just a few more months. Below is a reminder of who Holder is from a Maureen Dowd column in … Continue reading →

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What Pittsburgh Steelers Fans Will Swallow

Posted on December 31, 2011 by

What will Pittsburgh Steelers fans who support Ben Roethlisberger swallow? They swallow their sense of right and wrong for the sake of enjoying their football unencumbered by their conscious. They do that when they defend Roethlisberger and denigrate a twenty … Continue reading →

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Holiday Jeer

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

I have long pined for a hobby which allowed me to ridicule others while ostensibly serving a greater good.  Today at 12:43 pm, it came to me.  Actually it pulled up next to me. I was slowly approaching the street … Continue reading →

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When The Dead Are Just Missing?

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

When are the dead just missing? When describing them as dead constitutes admission that abortion is the taking of a human life. So if you are a supporter of abortion rights and evidence is presented to document a shortage of … Continue reading →

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28th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan Quoting C.S. Lewis

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

I’m always a sucker for a good CS Lewis quote: The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, … Continue reading →

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Robert Kagan: Why No Love For Colombia?

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

Before Egyptian protests initially began on Jan 25th, Robert Kagan had an Op-Ed in the Jan 23rd Washington Post which stated the following: But sometimes American policy is as incomprehensible as it is regrettable, as damaging to our interests as … Continue reading →

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