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  • Jul
    10th

    Odds and Ends

    Sargeant, Did You Pay The Power Bill?
    Seems like fighting the War Against the Evildoers and keeping the lights on at our Army posts at the same time is just too much to ask for. Oh well, just another sacrifice that our soldiers and their families will have to make while the rest of us keep [...]


    Jul
    3rd

    Down The Rabbit Hole: Flag Amendment Double Take

    Last week, the Senate narrowly defeated an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would have criminalized desecration of the American flag.
    Dictionary.com defines desecration as “blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character.” This definition, which one must assume the amendment text was using absent any other definition, is one most usually reserved [...]


    Jun
    25th

    The Incredible Shrinking Bill of Rights

    (Note: This article ended up being rather lengthy, more so than I anticipated. Expect a good five minutes to get through this one. - KG)
    Progressives like me make a point of hammering the Bush administration for every misstep it takes. And to be fair, they make it pretty easy for us, what with banner moments [...]


    Jun
    19th

    Energy Independence Isn’t The Goal

    So said the president of Shell Oil Company to Tim Russert, host of NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday, June 18th, 2006.
    Russert had the heads of three of the four largest oil companies (Shell, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips) in for a chat about high prices, consumer angst, and alternative fuels. When asked by Russert whether the [...]

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    Jun
    18th

    Sorry, No Vacancy

    Imagine you’re enjoying a nice evening at home after a long day at work when the unthinkable happens…you start feeling a pain in your chest that quickly spreads into your arms. You become lightheaded, nauseous, and pale. You feel as if your heart is racing a hundred miles an hour. You are having a heart [...]


    Jun
    12th

    F#@K You Katrina Victims!

    At least, that’s the message many in the storm ravaged communities along the Gulf Coast are getting from their insurance companies as they attempt to rebuild their homes and their lives after last years devastating Hurricane Katrina reduced their hopes and dreams to so much clutter.
    This AP article, which is appearing in many newspapers across [...]


    Jun
    8th

    This, That, and Another Thing

    Dysfunctional Democracy
    California’s 50th District primary election is being touted as a victory by both the Republican Party (their candidate won) and the Democratic Party (their candidate didn’t lose by as much as usual), but the truth is that this election was nothing less than a loss for all things democratic. Why would I say this?
    Here [...]


    May
    30th

    Take Me Out to the Ballgame

    Sometimes, in our collective efforts to expose all that is wrong with the world, our country, and our government in particular, we lose sight of all that is right. This past weekend, I was reminded in many subtle and some not so subtle ways that despite the problems facing us globally, beyond the morass of [...]


    May
    26th

    How Payday Loans Help the Terrorists

    There are few things I despise more than corrupt politicians who intentionally screw over their constituents for their own personal power or profit. One of those things is predatory lenders, like those drive through payday loan places. Although I am fortunate enough never to have had to go to one of those places, many Americans [...]


    May
    16th

    Myopic America

    Dictionary.com provides the following definition:
    my·o·pi·a (n.)
    Lack of discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning.
    Is it just me or have the American people fallen into a kind of stupor that allows them to accept the myopic worldview force fed to them on a daily basis by an incompetent and corrupt government and a complicit media [...]