Ruins of the Capitol from the video game Fallout 3 It's been several hours since some semblance of a historical event transpired here in...

Longtime readers of this blog know that I don't play the partisan game.  And I haven't bought into the "conservative/liberal...

George W. Bush is the worst President in American history.  In less lucid moments (mostly when hopped-up on allergy medicine) I would write ...

This past weekend was spent semi-unplugged.  Heck I didn't know that Miami had beaten UNC for the ACC Basketball Tournament title until ...

In 1981, Cuban president Fidel Castro released over a hundred thousand Cubans - many from jails and mental health facilities - who made thei...

Good friend, Baptist minister and wise Christian brother (he's certainly wiser than I shall ever be) James Hodges made an observation e...

As I intimated in my previous post, I arrived way late to witness the tempest surrounding Todd Akin at the apparent zenith of its wrath. Bu...

Longtime readers of this blog know that I'm for fiscal conservatism and letting the free market be responsible for itself, without gover...

So it's coming out that a bunch of Republicans, including senators Orrin Hatch and Mitch McConnell, are expressing concern about Preside...

Yesterday was the seventieth anniversary of the Empire of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor: the event that catapulted the United Sta...

Bev Perdue should do the right thing and resign as governor of North Carolina. And I am absolutely serious. If she intended this as a joke,...

When the hell do the people of this country once again get representatives who know what "un-constitutional" means enough to not ...

The Republicans in the North Carolina legislature should just say it and get it over with. Matt Mittan was the first to bring my attention ...

My final thought for the day: Why is Roger Clemens in trouble for lying to Congress... when Congress lies to us ALL the time and always get...

That's it. I've had it. Throw the whole sorry lot of 'em out. ALL of them. Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war. Show t...

I'm thinkin' that everyone now has a perfectly valid and legal reason to tell President Barack Obama to take his crummy "healt...

Because of two items in the reconciliation bill - one of which having to do with Pell grants, which alone made people scratch their heads in...

Because I'm feeling extra cranky tonight (and have for the past 24 hours or so)... "Chutzpah" is a Yiddish word meaning "...

Michael D. Tanner of the Cato Institute has written an essay about the costs of Obamacare , which passed the House last night (and which I n...