Author Archive | Jim

The Secret Service wants folks to forward them suspicious tweets regarding presidential candidates and others protected by the G-men. The Los Angeles Times notes, ““To report a tweet that concerns you,” @SecretService wrote Tuesday in its first such Tweet, “call the nearest field office in your state.” The LATimes did not mention whether people who […]

The only reason that Hurricane Sandy feels emboldened to attack America is because, thanks to Obama, we have the smallest Navy since 1917. Disarmament never pays. If we had a real American in the White House, then the East Coast would not be on the verge of being pounded by this hurricane. +++ The gold […]

The one certainty after last night’s debate is that we are going to have a lousy foreign policy for the next four years. Damn little learned from the debacles of the past dozen years – or the past 50 years. So was Romney doing his Herman Cain imitation last night? “America needs a leader, not […]

This Non Sequitor cartoon has one suggestion on how to keep candidates honest tonight. What other methods might better highlight their falsehoods? The Onion had a great one-sentence summary of last week’s debate: “Nation Tunes In To See Which Sociopath More Likable This Time.” I could complain that the debates are driving me to drink, […]

This cartoon would be perfect if there was a drone launching a missile to blast Lady Liberty before she escaped and perhaps became either a militant or an extremist. (Excellent cartoon by Joel Pett)

Lucky for me that this “loudest/most ignorant” rule doesn’t apply to blogs. [excellent cartoon from the new issue of the New Yorker]

RIP – Sen. Arlen Specter, one of the heroes of Ruby Ridge. I intensely disagreed with many, if not most, of the positions that Arlen Specter took during his career. And as for the “magic bullet” of the JFK Warren Commission report – bah humbug. But Specter showed great courage in going up against the […]