For those of you who know me, I don’t listen to pop music, hip hop/R&B, or anything really mainstream for that matter; I prefer classical music and classic rock, with some very obscure sub-genres thrown in there and whatnot. Therefore, I’m not sure what’s more surprising: me discussing Lady Gaga, or the fact that...
For what it’s worth, the Republicans don’t seem to be in favor of much of anything these days that actually makes sense. On the one hand, I can understand their fixation on reducing the deficit; that is something this country needs to tackle before it gets much worse. Then they say they are in...
I was originally going to write this in as part of the last “In Defense of the Constitution” post, but after I realized that, once again, my writing on the First Amendment was getting to be long and detailed enough on its own, I decided to split it up. Originally, this post was supposed...
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of the Cordoba House, the name of the proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero. What began as a simple local zoning matter became the latest flash point in our post-9/11 society almost overnight. What’s striking to me isn’t the fact that some religious organization wants to...
Well here we go: as Congress goes to its month-long August recess, we have a full slate of primaries and other developments in the midterm election races to keep us engaged in politics. This Tuesday, the August primaries began in earnest with three states choosing their general election matches. Now, I could just give...
If Afghanistan is our generation’s Vietnam, this is our generation’s Pentagon Papers; oh wait, just about every political observer out there has called it that already. Anyway, if you haven’t heard about it yet, the website Wikileaks.org is causing quite a stir in government circles this summer. Most notably, the organization became notorious due...
Update is below Ladies and gentlemen, the wait is finally over. Today, unemployment benefits are on the verge of finally being reauthorized after nearly two months of the nation’s unemployed having nothing to rely on other than whatever savings they might have had left. Technically, the...
Ah, the deficit. No single issue has caused as much consternation in Congress and around the country as the deficit has in recent weeks. Sure, health care reform tied up Congress for just about a full year, but now everything is getting held up because of the blasted deficit. Unemployment benefits, the coming energy...
It’s been a crazy week in politics, particularly in Texas; the “silly season of politics”, as various people have called it, is in full swing. Unfortunately, as much as I’d love to repost that video, I have no activists in chicken suits, nor do I have anything connecting certain politicians to chickens at all. ...
Insert memorable quote here. Seriously, I just finished watching President Obama give his first televised speech from the Oval Office, and with all the hype comparing the speech to JFK’s “ask not what you can do for your country” speech and FDR’s famous inaugural address (“We...
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