Poll Finds Tea Party Anger Rooted in Issues of Class
The New York Times and CBS recently commissioned a poll in hopes of better understanding the Tea Party movement, and the findings are pretty interesting. Here’s a clip: Tea Party supporters are...
View ArticleCultivating hate and distrust toward the educated for financial gain
I’ve written a lot over the years about the growing trend toward anti-intellectualism in the United States, and it’s sources. As I think I’ve said before, I think, to a great extent, it’s deliberate....
View ArticleIf evolution is real, why can’t we go to the zoo and see monkeys evolving...
Over the last week or two, we’ve been having some fun here at the expense of Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party-supported Republican candidate for Senate in Delaware. We joked around about her...
View ArticleSo, what’ll you cut?
On FOX News yesterday, Republican candidate for Senate, Carly Fiorina, said, if elected by the people of California, she’d fight to make Bush’s tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans permanent. When...
View ArticleOne last post about Christine O’Donnell
I wasn’t going to post anything here about Christine O’Donnell’s recent debate, during which she seemed to laugh at her opponent for suggesting that the separation of church and state is guaranteed in...
View ArticlePaul Revere, bell-ringing British informant
I wasn’t going to comment on it, but, as many of you no doubt know, Sarah Palin made news a couple days ago when she came out with an alternate version of Paul Revere’s historic ride, in which the...
View ArticleWe can close Guantanamo, but some things can’t be undone…
And, yes, this post was motivated in part by the fact that the newly crowned Miss USA was one of only two contestants who believe in evolution. I’m just really tired of living in a country full of...
View ArticleMichele Bachmann, saying “that’s the kind of spirit I have too,” launches her...
Representative Michele Bachmann, who, if you’re not familiar with her, is like Sarah Palin without the intellectual gravitas, was on Face the Nation yesterday with Bob Schieffer to announce the launch...
View ArticleTea Party derails green projects, calling them U.N. plots, and exposes NYT...
Remember how, a few weeks ago, the Public Editor of the New York Times, Arthur Brisbane, wrote a column inexplicably asking if it should be the job of journalists to be “truth vigilantes,” as though...
View ArticleToday in Stupid America: Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert gets diagnosed...
During our present pandemic, Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert, a diehard supporter of Donald Trump, has prided himself on not following public health guidance. And, not just that, but he’s known to have...
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