Reading time – 119 seconds . . . Nobody on the right, left or center disputes that a primary job of our federal government is national defense, ensuring our security in a dangerous world. ISIS or ISIL or Islamic Caliphate – whatever you want to call it – has incrementally and brutally plunged the Middle… [read more]
Your Freedom
Reading time – 49 seconds . . . For our absolutists . . . You’re an absolutist and you believe fervently in individual liberty. You don’ need no stinking gub-mint messing with your life. It seems that we have a national epidemic of “You can’t tell ME what to do!” causing uncontrolled inflammation of amygdalas… [read more]
A New Hope For Republicans
Reading time – 39 seconds . . . The Republican Party has fractured along the “it’s your fault” lines and each faction is devoid of any characteristics of the Eisenhower Republican Party. It was Eisenhower who proposed and promoted the now-crazy notion that there are a bunch of things that we need to do collectively,… [read more]
Breaking News
Reading time – 74 seconds . . . In what some are calling a bold move, President Obama held a press conference today and declared, “Political silly season is officially over. No more of it. Not on my watch.” Then he grounded all Republican extremists in Congress, mandating that they report to detention hall every… [read more]
Hogs and Bread
Reading time – 51 seconds Freshman Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) delivered one of five Republican responses to the President’s State of the Union address on January 20, 2015, and it’s a good thing she did. Mitch McConnell told us that she was the perfect person to deliver the establishment Republican rebuttal and, clearly, he was… [read more]
Empathy
Reading time – 31 seconds . . . Watch this video. Really, go ahead, click on the web link (not the bracelet) and watch this amazing piece from the folks at the Cleveland Clinic. For the longest time they have done miraculous things for patients in need at their award winning hospital and once again… [read more]
Piñatas
Ed. note: Please help – see the note below and pass this along so that we make the kind of difference that needs to be made. America thanks you. Reading time – 41 seconds . . . There they stand, the hopeful – hopeless? – wielders of sticks, lurching and whacking at the piñatas of… [read more]
Je Suis . . . Ironic
Ed. note: Please help – see the note below and pass this along so that we make the kind of difference that needs to be made. America thanks you. Reading time – 47 seconds . . . The irreverent Charlie Hebdo satirists, both cartoonists and journalists, have, in the face of profound, bottomless grief led… [read more]
The Usefulness of a Scalise Apology
Ed. note: Please help – see the note below and pass this along so that we make the kind of difference that needs to be made. America thanks you. Reading time – 33 seconds . . . Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) has been busted for having presented to a conference hosted by the European-American Unity… [read more]
We Had No Choice
Ed. note: Please help – see the note below and pass this along so that we make the kind of difference that needs to be made. America thanks you. Reading time – 57 seconds . . . “We have no choice,” said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zyhri in rejecting a cease fire proposal. Hamas had… [read more]
