The Secret Relationship Between Rahm and Lou

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, he of the tiny fingers and ballet costumes, has lately taken to speaking about "€œvalues."€ Chicagoans are killing one another at a clip 40% higher than this time last year, and for the first six months of 2012, its per-capita homicide rate was nearly 400% higher ...

The Joker’s Razor

In the wake of Friday morning's bloodbath at a Colorado movie theater, America struggles to figure out who or what to blame. They"€™ve obviously ruled out the shooter. James Holmes, 24, will be arraigned in a Colorado courtroom this morning and charged with a spree killing at a midnight debut ...

The Last Little Abortion Clinic in Mississippi

The hoarsely ululating throats of the "€œpro-life"€ and "€œpro-choice"€ movements screamed at each other outside a small abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi last week as a federal judge cock-blocked a state law and allowed the clinic to stay open for now. The law would have ...

The Nagging Persistence of Tribalism

Last week in rural western Alabama, members of the Christian Identity movement teamed up with Klansmen to host a three-day shindig that ended on Friday with a cross burning. The event gained national attention after local residents complained about a flyer that specified "€œAll White Christians ...

Islam’s Role in Slavery

While filling my car with gasoline possibly derived from Middle Eastern oil, I spotted a billboard for a local clothing store called US ARABIA. Though the sign's head-swaddled male and female models appear to be Caucasian, palefaces are scant in the area around this gas station, so I"€™ll presume ...

Eric Holder

Eric the Withholder

The House Oversight Committee voted last week to begin Contempt of Congress proceedings against porpoise-faced Attorney General Eric Holder. Although the vote was a reaction to Holder's stonewalling in the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal, America's wormy, mustachioed AG has shown flagrant ...

The Romnambulist

After winning a war of attrition in the primaries, Mitt Romney is the presumptive Republican nominee for president. He is also a presumptive human being. Whereas questions still linger as to whether Barack Obama was born an American citizen, I have doubts as to whether Romney was born a member of ...

Israel to Africans: Go Home

While much of America's media required smelling salts last week to revive itself from being grievously offended by a harmless wisecrack Don Rickles made about Obama, it barely noticed that Israel was ramping up efforts to detain and deport illegal African immigrants. Whether you prefer to dub the ...

The Undead & The Brain-Dead

Mass news reports last week of an impending “Zombie Apocalypse” proved that while the apocalypse may not have arrived quite yet, there are plenty of zombies waiting for it to happen. Zombies, you see, eat human flesh, and though one need not be “undead” to be a cannibal, ...

The Vegetarian Personality

I have trouble accepting the idea that Hitler was a vegetarian. He just didn"€™t seem that pushy. Apparently others feel the same way. When I started typing “pushy vegetarians” on Google, it auto-filled the rest after “pushy v"€”.” Of all the annoying identity ...