The following riff is part of an American Conservative forum on Obama’s speech. ****** The State of the Union address has long since become “hip boot” time. Shortly after the speech finished, the CNN webpage showed a large photo of Obama giving the speech along with a brief outtake: “CNN BREAKING NEWS: ‘What Comes of […]
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Good Government Guns II : My Treason
The satire I reposted yesterday was spurred by this article I wrote for American Spectator. It’s always satisfying when a piece spurs a Brooklyn philosophy professor to urge that I be prosecuted for treason……[thanks to WRSA for that photo….] The American Spectator June, 2000 HEADLINE: Good Government Guns Private owners will be handed semiautomatic Play-Doh. […]
Our New Terrorist-Tainted House Homeland Security Committee Chief
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. This dude knows all about terrorism, since he has spent decades doing big-time fundraising for the Irish Republican Army. Muckraker/hell-raiser/freedom-fighter Will Grigg has an excellent piece on King’s hypocrisy on LewRockwell.com today.
“Assassin Nation” in new American Conservative
The January issue of American Conservative contains my piece, “Assassin Nation” – on Obama’s new policy for killing Americans. That issue is not yet generally available online; it is available at newstands and for subscriber viewing at their website. Here is a brief outtake from the article: How much evidence should the U.S. government be […]
The Mark Twain Prize Debacle: Another Reason to De-Fund PBS
Tina Fey, the Saturday Night Live performer who deftly satirized Sarah Palin, recently received the Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center in Washington. PBS broadcast much of the awards ceremony but deleted the most pointed paragraph in Fey’s acceptance speech in which she mock-praised “conservative women” such as Palin: “And, you know, politics aside, […]
A Better Book Cover Design for Bush’s Autobiography?
The Washington Post had a giant version of the cover of Bush’s DECISION POINT in its Style section today. Bush is trying to look solemn but I suspect he is going to a baseball game. I think this photo – entitled “Bush Swings by Congress” – I took at a January 2007 antiwar DC demo […]
Prince George’s Police Latest Scandal: Too Stupid to Cheat
[UPDATED BELOW] The Washington Post has another horror story on the PG Police. The Prince George’s County Police Academy apparently had a system of organized cheating for trainees that was so obvious that even the auditors noticed. (When an entire class gets perfect grades on a whole slew of tests, that’s a clue). When some […]