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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One of the statewide ballot measures that passed during last week’s election was a referendum in Oklahoma on the banning of Sharia Law. Now the impending doom of Sharia Law in the United States is the next great right wing scare tactic. With the ten-year anniversary of 9/11 now less than a year away, the [...]
The curious case of the Park 51 Islamic center in lower Manhattan is a fascinating on a purely political level. For years the go to political pitch to the American people from the political right was, “Muslims are everywhere and they are trying to kill you, so vote Republican.” The Republican party and the right [...]
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It’s well documented that conservative expectations for the performance of the Obama administration are uniformly negative. Mr. Obama could propose tomorrow that the federal capital be renamed “Reagantown” and conservatives would find some element of fascism within the proposal. But an accurate way to gauge the successes of the Obama administration is what conservatives and [...]
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