The boundless arrogance of the Lobby is a sight to see, but we don’t really get to view it in its full glory—except when they travel to Israel, where they can and do speak rather more frankly, as the head of the ...
Opus the Penguin has seen his share of controversy, especially back in the 1980’s, when Berkeley Breathed’s Bloom County was a more liberal (and more intelligent, and more funny) version of Garry Trudeau’s ...
A week of treason, timidity, and ...
Despite the reactions generated by recent revelations about the sermons of Obama's pastor, I see no reason to change my comments. The current Republican-neoconservative attacks on Obama have been accompanied by the arduous ...
Here is a Youtube video of part of my speech at the Ron Paul rally in Mountain View, California, held this past weekend. The camera work is shaky, and completely collapses at the end, but just to give you the flavor: ...
ABC News reports Ron Paul is third in the fundraising race, with “an impressive $2.4 million in cash on hand after raising an equal amount during the second quarter, putting him ahead of one-time Republican ...
When President Obama, the Democrats and only three Republicans succeeded in passing a $787 billion dollar stimulus package last week, Arizona Senator John McCain said "This measure is not bipartisan, it contains much that ...
Media coverage like this is fast wiping that smirk off their faces: <object width=“425” height=“355”><param name=“movie” ...
From Hillary Clinton’s speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars: “That begins with ensuring that America does have the world’s strongest and smartest military force. We’ve begun to change tactics in ...
Following the surprising announcement that Ron Paul is third in terms of fundraising this quarter, comes the news that the Cobb country GOP, the biggest Republican organization in Georgia, held a straw poll in which Ron ...
Did anyone else catch the unsettling comment made by Karl Rove on the O"Reilly show last night. When O"Reilly asked Bush's former grey eminence whether Obama had benefited from the speech given in Philadelphia, ...
From today‘s Financial Times: “Speaking after the meeting of Group of Seven finance leaders, Peer Steinbrück, German finance minister, said the G7 now feared that write-offs of losses on securities linked to ...
The real Ron Paul breakthrough I’ve been waiting for is this news item in the Washington Post, which notes that Dr. No is now acting like a real candidate: that is, he’s attacking his opponents, in this case the ...
The neocon tactic of shouting “anti-Semitism” has become a Pavlovian reaction to anyone and everyone who is not in tune with their agenda. Their latest victim is my friend Paul Belien, a political writer ...
As the President of “pro-Western” Georgia shuts down the non-governmental media, jails his political opponents, accuses anyone who dissents of being part of a pro-Russian fifth column, and orders his thuggish ...
Appearing at the National Press Club this morning, flanked by rock-solid conservative third-party candidate Chuck Baldwin, the venerable Ralph Nadar, and the insane and reprehensible leftist Cynthia McKinney, Ron Paul ...
This exchange between Michael Scheuer —former head of the bin Laden unit and author of the brilliant Imperial Hubris —and the idiotic Bill Maher is a classic: <object width=“425” ...
Dumbest “spin” of year award goes to ABC News, for this: “His presidential campaign may not have as much cash on hand as Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, but McCain is getting more money than any other candidate ...
Obama's rivals may now be competing with him for the prize of uttering the stupidest remarks about the working stiffs in our state. Dee Dee Myers, who is a close personal friend of Hillary and was a confidante of Bill ...
On the day of the New Hampshire primary, a quick run down of the remaining candidates in the race, in order of their performance in the Iowa Caucus, according to pop culture references: Democrats Uncle Ben: Ethnic, but ...
An article in the rather odd little magazine Democratiya, a liberal-left pro-interventionist Euston Manifesto-ish periodical run out of some minor British university, reports on “the paleocon imagination” as ...
OK sports fans. This is it. Everyone one of you can now be president. All you have to do is kick a bearded Palestinian towelhead out of Lincoln Center and you’re in. Rudy Giuliani brags that he’s a more ...
Revenge of the Mutterites Last week I spent five frenetic days at a conference on politics and religion held at Trinity Western University, outside of Vancouver, British Columbia. A faculty member, Grant Havers, who ...
It seems that I may have to use my rights as a senior blogger to respond to some of the critics of my recently posted remarks on RP. The aforesaid commentary was written several weeks ago and therefore the figures cited for ...
