I see Concord as one of the fundamental revolutionary acts that has ever occurred in the history of this nation. If it was only rich white men who were there, that only rebounds to the credit of rich white men. AT that moment, the rebellious action was taken against an unrepresentative monarchy. I’m with the [...]

You write that as if there is something especially ethical about members of the CBC. Do U know something about them that I don’t? Or do you just hand out fig leafs proactively, or reflexively, to members of Congress that have an abundance of melanin in their skin? I love Maxine Waters too, but just [...]

I have to back off a bit.
I do not sneer every time I see the man.
He is not as bad as he could be.

I have hard the argument made that “promises made were not kept”. Lots of things were “supposed” to happen to benefit the home owners, but nothing was actually placed in the final bill to make any of it happen. Am I to believe that famous individuals with decades of experience in congressional infighting were totally [...]

The “question” I asked was rhetorical. (Look up that word. Its a good one to know.) Barney has the tic. The only real question is if it’s big enough to have someone bring it to his attention, for his own good. I value the man’s legacy enough to suggest that he needs a little help. [...]

I did not misunderstand. Your claim to neutrality does not follow from the words you wrote. Specifically, it appears that you did not mean to write this sentence on a blog overwhelmingly Leftist in its participants: “It concerns me when these theories appear among my activist friends, because I think it makes the entire movement [...]

Are you saying it is not a problem? Or that I am the only one who is hearing it? If it’s the second possibility, either you don’t hear well, or you don’t listen. Mr. Frank does smack his lips frequently when he speaks. It detracts from his message, whatever that may be at any particular [...]

Your reading comprehension is not so great. (Or maybe my writing is not as clear as I would like?) No, I think it’s you. His sexual orientation, which he is not averse to mention, coupled with the sound of lip smacking brings up an involuntary association that I find competes with the man’s message. I [...]

So, a team of good writers wrote a nice inauguration speech. I’ve been watching the propaganda show for most of the day. Does not change one gee-damn thing. He has a long way to stop the “war” and move to the Left on a hundred issues before I’ll try to train my lip not to [...]

Despite that you don’t want to address anything specific, I think you need to demonstrate that it is the left side of the political spectrum that needs this admonition. When you single-out the Left in this manner, the undercurrent is you are accusing them of somehow being careless with the facts surrounding meaningful events, or [...]

Your next-to-the-last paragraph,
the one starting with “Are you kidding me?”,
is a classic!

You packed so much of the last twelve years
into such a small space with brevity and impact.

and ” . . . we can’t overthrow a card table.”
Excellent.
You are a wordsmith, Sir.
Thanks.

You nailed him, Mary. Obama cheerleaders seem to be a fickle bunch. I’m just waiting for the ruckus when Obama walks out of a meeting with John Boner in a week or so and announces how he once again fell over to the right and clucked his base. . . . but he IS good [...]

I am not a gun expert, but I have read the opinions of plenty of people who claim to be. Since someone in this thread made a recommendation about what gun might be used for home defense, I’ll mention that any gun that shoots a large caliber round is going to penetrate interior walls very [...]

I think it was Stokely Carmichel who once noted that; “Violence is as American as cherry pie”. Absent a miracle, This situation is soooo baked in the cake now for God only knows how long. Sorry to tell you, . . . but . . . we are going to have to try to get [...]

You have a valid point. Statistics are often used in ways that confuse the question, or even imply an opposite conclusion to what an accurate accounting might have revealed. I can remember so many time when the phrasing of the question, or the restricted options provide as an “accepted” response did not leave any room [...]