Nuance and context are normally things that the modern conservative shuns when it comes to political discourse. When former Tennessee senator and Vice president Al Gore discussed how he’d spearheaded the development of the internet for public use through legislation, conservatives and Republicans spent the next decade guffawing about how he’d claimed he’d invented the [...]
Since the announcement that Illinois businessman Shahid Khan would be purchasing the Jacksonville Jaguars, a certain ignorant portion of the population have made racist references toward his Pakistani heritage. Mr. Khan is an American citizen and the personification of the American dream. Yet many who have been rightly condemning the racism on message boards and [...]
While I am sympathetic to the general ideas of the Occupy Wall Street movement, I’m worried that there are some within it that have dreams of becoming martyrs. I’m reading the book Nixonland by Rick Perlstein, and it details how politicos like Richard Nixon were able to use the images of tear gassed rioters in [...]
Sarah Ruthless: “Out of this war, the greatest since the beginning of history, a new world must be born, a world that would justify the sacrifices offered by humanity. This new world must be a world in which there shall be no exploitation of the weak by the strong, of the good by the evil; [...]
Last evening, as I do most Wednesday evenings I had dinner with my parents at their home. We all exchanged stories of our discussions with coworkers about our unfortunate incident with the deer outside of Keystone Heights and my mother discussed issues she was having with her iPhone. All three of us are iPhone owners, [...]
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This morning I was reading a tweet from a conservative I follow (@kevpga63) that linked to a Wall Street Journal column from former Hall Of Fame quarterback Fran Tarkenton. The column, What If The NFL Played By Teachers’ Rules, compares the concept of tenure with teachers to the supposed meritocracy of the National Football League. [...]
Since the time of Ronald Reagan the modern Republican party has slowly reduced their entire political philosophy to a simple creed, lower taxes. Reagan’s successor staked his entire political legacy on his promise to never raise taxes, and when he acted like an adult to address the ever growing deficit problem he was promptly treated [...]
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