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April 2013

April 25, 2013

Humble Public Servants

Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare Exemption Because all animals are equal, but some are more...

April 17, 2013

The Big Winner of the Gay “Marriage” Struggle

David Brooks, Useful Idiot, prophesies the massive panacaeic benefits that gay "marriage" will confer on...

April 13, 2013

As our Culture Re-Paganizes

it gets harder and harder for our Ruling Class to make fine distinctions between things...

April 09, 2013

Our Ruling Classes Have Everything Under Control

A reader writes: Thought this might be of interest to you. It's a pretty good...

April 05, 2013

How the Amalgamation of EvilCorps and State That is Our Ruling Class…

...plan to devour you and yours when their insatiable greed for power and wealth burns...

April 04, 2013

Dear Tom: The Answer, Alas, is Yes

Under our current lawless regime our God King has an absolute, self-granted Executive 007 that...

March 2013

March 08, 2013

The Biggest Enemies of the United States

The Rand Paul filibuster has been immensely clarifying. Any member of our Ruling Class who...

March 07, 2013

Meanwhile, out on the Left…

David Sirota at Salon does battle with the tribalists of his tribe, who won't support...

March 07, 2013

Avatars of Thing That Used to be Conservativism Attack Actual Conservatism

Well that didn't take long. Tom McDonald notes on his FB page about the political...

March 07, 2013

Golly, Who Could have Predicted This?

The Wall Street Journal, organ of corporate interests, joins up with the Obama Administration, tool...

March 04, 2013

Colbert Explains the Sequester

I remember when people kept telling me that voting for these feckless twits was "realistic"....

March 01, 2013

Sober Realism

It turns out the US has an "infinite amount of money", but also that we,...

March 01, 2013

Thing that Used to Be Conservatism Cheers for Despotism

In our current state of political discourse, the idea of thinking before reacting is getting...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

The Ruling Class of the United States of America

...taking care of its heroic soldiers in the manner that the rich and powerful have...

February 15, 2013

Chutzpah

Pelosi: Congressional Pay Cut Would Undermine the Dignity of my Job meanwhile... As VA struggles,...

February 12, 2013

Cowardly Draft-Dodging War Criminal Backs Obama

...on drone strikes. On the bright side, more voices are being heard on the right...

February 07, 2013

Ruling Class Just Keeps Crapping on the Troops

Everything that's wrong with our Ruling Class in two headlines: Panetta to propose military pay...

February 01, 2013

An Army Vet writes:

WIll you please comment on this recent news? As a female Army veteran, I am...

January 2013

January 07, 2013

NY Times recommends scrapping the Constitution

...because people like the creators of the NY Times and our Ruling Class are just...

January 04, 2013

A Marine writes…

Good freaking grief! We've been at war for ten freaking years, with our ruling class...

January 03, 2013

Our Ruling Class Hard at Work

No help for Hurricane Sandy victims (which really is a legitimate function of the state...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

Our Ruling Class Are Swine

While disabled vets wait longer and longer for benefits, our Ruling Class takes care of...

December 14, 2012

Our Ruling Class is Not Populated by Normal People

When normal people's children fracture their girlfriend's skull in a violent fit of rage, the...

December 12, 2012

A Powerful Enemy is Killing Our Troops

Suicide. That's because our troops and their families are being subjected to an intolerable strain...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

Latest Ruling Class Dump on our Troops

Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods, one of the SEALs killed while trying to...

October 29, 2012

The Function of the Media is Not to Inform

...but to reinforce a particular ideological narrative in the service of our Ruling Class. Marcel...

October 29, 2012

It is Utter Folly to Trust Romney

A reader writes: I have been following your discussion of Romney, the HHS Mandate, and...

October 29, 2012

That’s about right

A reader comments on the buck-passing paper pusher who let four good people die in...

October 15, 2012

Our Awesome God King

Counterpunch asks: “During his election campaign in 2008, Barack Obama promised to close the prison...

October 08, 2012

Next Volley in the Class War

Rich to middle class and poor: cheer for us as we walk all over you....

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