Bride of Rove

When I read that Belgium was planning on banning the burqa, or actually face coverings in general which means that in winter everyone will have frozen faces, I thought – you know – personal freedom curtailed – bad. And my next thought was: Why? It’s gotta be a good thing to get that off of [...]

The blogs have been sifting every particle of news concerning the vote on government healthcare and from what I can figure out we are apparently engaged in the world’s largest game of “chicken”. We did this once before only it was with the Soviet Uniion, remember? For those of you who slept through history it [...]

There’s a lesson in Greece that the US should learn by example and not first hand. It is harder to take something away from someone than it is to deny them in the first place. As Germany shames the hell out of Greece I am sure most liberals are recoiling in horror at the cruelty [...]

People liked Obama’s policies, his eloquence, and his fierce intelligence and the fact that he was black, that his election would turn history on its ear, was a desirable bonus, but only that — icing on the cake, but not the cake itself. I submit that a rough inverse of that dynamic now helps define [...]

It has finally dawned on me why it was so easy for Obama to get elected. I know people would like to look back on this generation or this “age” and have some nobel label smacked onto it like “The Industrial Age”, “The Age of Reason”, but unfortunately – if at least some of us [...]

Nothing is really pissing me off today, which is not to say that there isn’t stuff to be pissed off about … I just don’t have the energy. Maybe the Obama administration revealing that the crotch bomber is spilling his guts putting the intel at risk for political points? What can you say about that? [...]

There are so many things I’ve wanted to rant about all week but my new plan is to only rant on Sundays so I may be all over the map on this first one because I think I am experiencing deadly rant back up. Rant one. It is NOT ok to assume that all aborted [...]