Ah, the joys of incompetence at VCU. Let’s say that someone, say a handsome young blogger, submits his Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) on February 9, 2010. How long does it take for this application to be processed by his public university? Over six months. And then only after two e-mails and a […]
How else can you describe what has happened to the Republican Party this year? The Republican Party had a simple route to a landslide election this year: Cut government. But, like the Republican Party so often does, they could not not screw it up. Instead of focusing on actually cutting government, and coming for plans […]
This is a portion of the preface that appears in my copy of Animal Farm (Signet Classic Printing, 50th Anniversary Edition, April 1996): […] Orwell, of course, was seldom happier than when he was attacking fraud and hypocrisy and hearing the squeals of the injured. Despite his insistence on being “political” in his work, Orwell’s […]
When will this woman just shut up and raise the average IQ of politicians everywhere? Adversaries who have been trying to silence Dr. Laura for years seized on her recent use of the n-word on her show as she subsequently suggested that rap “artists” and other creative types like those producing HBO shows who regularly […]
Background: On August 10th, Radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger went on a tirade on her radio program using the n-word 11 times. Tuesday, she announced that she would be ending her radio show to “regain [her] First Amendment rights.” For some perverse reason the former Mayor of Wasilla and half-term Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, […]
Jim Geraghty at National Review Online’s “Campaign Spot” blog has a post about the top 25 “worst figures in American history” as determined by 43 right-wing bloggers. Let’s just say that hyperpartisanship is effecting everyone this year: 23) Saul Alinsky 23) Bill Clinton 23) Hillary Clinton 19) Michael Moore 19) George Soros (8) 19) Alger […]
Yeah, burning that playground equipment is really going stop Islamic terrorism and Shariah Law. How much responsibility do people like Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich bear for this wider wave of Islamophobia that has struck the nation? H/t: Doug Mataconis and Michael Powell on Twitter.
Why? Because I am sick of the right and all the noise and bluster coming out of the right this year. It is not that I agree at all with President Obama’s policies, but I am so sick of the now that I see no reason I should bother to support — or even give […]
What is an organization or movement other than a sum of its parts, in this case, its members? Herman Cain, a business leader and radio host; and Tea Party Patriot co-founder Jenny Beth Martin have joined the roster of speakers for the Virginia Tea Party Convention. Organizers have invited about two dozen speakers, mostly prominent […]
Over at Bearing Drift, a Steven Osborne has a post about what — in his deluded mind — the gay marriage ruling (by Judge Vaughn R. Walker in Perry v. Schwarzenegger) means. Frankly, I’m not sure why I’m bothering to post about a blog post that is just awful. I guess it’s partly because it’s […]
