Wednesday on the ED Show, comedian and liberal activist John Fugelsang gives a few pointers on have to deal with your ‘Obamacare hating’ uncle, your ‘NRA’ uncle, your ‘gay for Reagan’ uncle and your uncle who uses Benghazi as a verb at the dinner table this Thanksgiving. Here’s an example. When discussing the history of […]
Category: Rants
This is Just Sick – and You are Sick if You Share It.
Anatomy of a Policy Murder: Will Duplicity and Dupes Kill Hope and Change?
If the last 40-odd days of health care hysteria serve any intellectually viable purpose, it is to ratify the Thomas Theorem on self-fulfilling prophesies: If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences. Indeed, like the famous “toilet paper panic” from the 1973 oil crisis and the more recent Obama ammo-hoarding ammo […]
Downtown Dollar Bill's Road Trip Roundup: Dullards, Hypocrites and Hubris on the Highway
Owing to lingering fatigue from the debt ceiling debacle and the doting indulgence of our beloved editor, I am presenting the first and perhaps only outing of my road trip roundup. Do not count on seeing this feature ever again. Our assignment this week takes us first to lovely Buncombe County, NC, then to our […]
POTUS Signs a Stay of Execution at Midnight, Now What?
We should all be grateful that the Congress finally let cooler and professional members prevail at the bitter end. Nonetheless, the bill the president signed into law at midnight reminded me of a movie where a governor calls the warden to prevent the execution of an innocent man. I am already worried about the next […]
ALL THIS FOR NOTHING!
In the end, all the huffing and puffing, all the bravado and chest thumping, all the threats and extortion demands amounted to nothing. The Republican-led shutdown is finally over and what do they have to show for it? A big fat goose egg, that’s what. Worse, they lost ground. The very thing they had hoped […]