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 [...]
Today former Utah governor John Huntsman withdrew from the race for the Republican nomination for president. Now, what looked like a crowded race could be over before Florida holds its presidential primary at the end of January. The city of Jacksonville was slated to host a nationally televised presidential debate on January 26th, and the [...]
The wonder and spectacle of the Iowa Caucuses has come and gone. I was thinking on Tuesday evening that somewhere, out there in the great beyond, Theodore H. White was sitting down to the typewriter and began the first chapter of The Making Of The President 2012. It’s normally my custom to write a post [...]
The modern conservative’s relationship with the legacy of George W. Bush is a fantastic, bi-polar, hot mess. At one moment they could be lauding his unabashed Christianity and his keeping us safe for all those years after worst attack in American history. On the other they deny him three times before the rooster crows when [...]
Last evening before I retired to dreamland, I caught Senator John McCain’s floor speech marking the end of the 9 year Iraq War. Like many in this nation I have in the past had a very positive view of the senior senator from Arizona. As a Republican primary voter in 2000 I was prepared to [...]
Today will more than likely mark the end an era in the history of Jacksonville Florida. At the NFL owners meetings in Dallas today a vote is all but assured to approve the sale of the Jacksonville Jaguars to Illinois businessman Shahid Khan. Although the sale of the franchise will not be completely final until [...]
I remember the conversation I had with a friend of my late grandfather’s 8 years ago about his experience during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He had begun that Sunday early with a drive around the island in a new car. That was when he had low flying Zeros pass over him on the way [...]
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; [...]
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