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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 [...]
December 16th, 2011 | Posted in 2008, History, Iraq War, Politics, World Affairs | 1 Comment
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 [...]
December 15th, 2011 | Posted in 2008, History, Iraq War, Politics | No Comments
Last night reviewing the analytics of my website I found that I received one keyword search visit from the term “dixie chicks called bush nazi.” I’d actually not heard the news of Bocephus spouting off about Obama being a Nazi. But I’ve always found it fascinating about the conservative character, that when presented with such [...]
October 4th, 2011 | Posted in 2012, History, Iraq War, Music, Politics, World Affairs | No Comments
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 [...]
September 22nd, 2011 | Posted in 2012, Business Matters, History, Iraq War, Politics | 1 Comment
Yesterday marked the tenth anniversary of the horrific attacks of September 11th 2001, and should have been a quiet day of reflection and prayer. Occurring as it did on a Sunday meant that the day would share a place with God and football, but politics should never have shared the stage with those three. The [...]
September 12th, 2011 | Posted in 2012, Afghanistan War, History, Iraq War, Politics | No Comments
For decades the 40th president of the United States has been the God Emperor of the conservative pantheon. After the disaster of Nixon and Watergate, and the uselessness of the bumbling Ford, it was only natural that movement conservatives would latch on to such a strong and charismatic leadership figure as Ronald Wilson Reagan. Yet [...]
July 27th, 2011 | Posted in Business Matters, History, Iraq War, Media, Politics, Quotes | 1 Comment
As soon as Barack H. Obama was elected by an over ten million vote margin as the 44th president of The United States, conservatives and republicans endeavored to counter the new president’s agenda. They endeavored to counter the new president’s agenda even if parts of it were previously part of their agenda. Republicans and conservatives [...]
May 22nd, 2011 | Posted in 2008, Afghanistan War, Health Care Reform, History, Iraq War, Politics, World Affairs | No Comments
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May 20th, 2011 | Posted in Afghanistan War, Humor, Iraq War, Politics, Sports, Television | No Comments
When it became more and more apparent to George W. Bush in the run up to his disastrous Iraq invasion that there would be no weapons of mass destruction found, he began to change his emphasis in reasoning to a grand imposition of democracy on the middle east. An overthrow of the authoritarian regime of [...]
January 15th, 2011 | Posted in Iraq War, Media, Politics, World Affairs | No Comments