Given Barack Obama’s current travel itinerary (he just visited Afghanistan), it seems that this is a good time to post (below) a reprint of an…
Recently I had a conversation with a Left friend who agrees with me that the Democratic Party’s ever-more right-leaning presidential nominee Barack…
The deception conducted by political "elites" is about more than specific factual lies. It is also and perhaps more significantly about the…
Here, pasted in (pretty far) below, is a very sharp and clever column on the Obama phenomenon and its often delusional "left" supporters/participants. The column (titled…
I regularly (despite my best efforts at blocking) receive scam-spam from people claiming to be in Africa and to have some way for…
Two or three blog posts ago, I asked progressive Obamanists if they had any boundaries of rightward drift Barack Obama could not trangress…
Today in The New York Times, there’s a useful Bob Herbert column on Barack Obama’s rightward lurch. I think it’s pretty late in the game for Herbert…
“IT NEVER HAPPENED” Under the rules of “mainstream” political discourse in the United States, crimes are committed by evil others, never…
Dear "Progressive" Obamanists and/or "Progressives for Obama," I have a question for you: at what point could Barack Obama lose you? I’ll…
I’m very hard on the New York Times from the left (I’m sure this has the Times’ top managers and owners trembling…
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