11 Jun 2008

When Laws Become Contemptible

By Garry Reed

According to news reports, immigration advocates are advising illegals that their best bet against deportation is to clam up and say nothing when the cops come calling.

This hacks off critics who claim the do-gooders are aiding lawbreakers.

04 Jun 2008

Soap Flakes and Political Fakes

By Garry Reed

Some people spend hours ensconced on their couches enmeshed in the melodramatic meanderings of sordid soap-opera offerings. Others hover above their keyboards surfing sources for unsavory political punditry and picayune policy pronouncements.

But is there really much difference between soap operas and politicking? Consider:

 

28 May 2008

TSA Goes Laissez-Faire

By Garry Reed

In the ever-evolving war against airline passengers, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) continues to develop new weapons of mass dysfunction.

Travelers have long been harassed with X-ray machines, metal-detecting wands, and inscrutable verbal vetting such as "Did someone put something in your luggage when you weren't looking?"

Then in 2006 the TSA began quietly testing two new anti-personnel weapons.

21 May 2008

Impeach Bush If He Attacks Iran

By John W. Whitehead

We have a president who does just about whatever he wants, the Constitution be damned. He has, among other things, asserted unchecked unilateral power, conducted surveillance on American citizens in violation of federal law, and ignored universal prohibitions on torture. And although years from now historians may refer to the "Bush Doctrine" in much the same way that they talk about the Monroe or Truman doctrines, they will most likely not hold it in the same esteem.

21 May 2008

Politically Correct Plaque Attack

By Garry Reed

Abraham Lincoln As one might expect in today's virulently aggressive politically correct culture, a movement is afoot to rewrite history, including, according to the Christian Science Monitor, "amending the plaques, statues, and memorials of historical figures to reflect their racist sentiments."

14 May 2008

Lucrative Business Proposal

By Garry Reed

FOR YOUR UTMOST OF PARAMOUNT ATTENTIONS!

It is to understand that you might be of somewhat apprehension because you do not know of me but I ensure I have a lucrative business proposal of mutually interest to share with you.

My name is Hillaracko Bamajohn McClainton. I am the most leading of Candidates for to becoming the Presidency of the United States of the Americas. My Spouse was former President of the U.S. of the America and I am also the Neocon Hero of War and the Great Charisma Leader of The Change.

07 May 2008

Military Propaganda Pushed Me Off TV

By Jeff Cohen

In the fall of 2002, week after week in debates televised on MSNBC I argued vigorously against invading Iraq. I used every possible argument that might sway mainstream viewers - no real threat, cost, instability. But as the war neared, my debates were terminated.

07 May 2008

Right Versus Left: Who Kills More?

By Garry Reed

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

- P.J. O'Rourke.

 

Thoughtful people love that quote. Here's why.

30 Apr 2008

Entering the Brain-Free Zone

By Garry Reed
Seventeen-year-old Amon Schute is social drek. He's sneering, jeering, and hateful. He proves it with ostentatious displays of filthy jeans, long, matted hair, body piercings, and tattoos.
 
He's exactly the kind of kid you'd expect to spend his entire adult life in lockup.
 
Sixteen-year-old Coy Minyon is a social cipher. He's weak, meek, and fearful. He proves it with a timorous mask of ultra-conservative clothing, neatly groomed hair, unobtrusive appearance, and a permanent muted existence that makes him invisible to the world.
 
He's exactly the kind of kid you'd expect to spend his entire adult life in total obscurity.
 
Amon and Coy are best friends.
 
Together they plan to gun down a bunch of people in a public place and then off themselves in a blaze of everlasting glory.
30 Apr 2008

More or Less?

By Mark W. Hendrickson

John McCainThank you, Rahm Emanuel! Mr. Emanuel, a Democratic congressman from Illinois and former senior policy adviser to President Bill Clinton, recently published several election-year policy proposals on the opinion page of The Wall Street Journal.

The timing of Emanuel's article was magnificent. The Democratic nomination campaign had degenerated into neurotic angst over whether the eventual nominee would have different biological plumbing or more skin pigmentation than any previous nominee for the U.S. presidency. Most of us couldn't care less if the president is a purple neuter as long as the policies advocated are acceptable, so Emanuel performed a public service by focusing on substantive rather than symbolic issues.

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