Year: 2015

God bless them, Atheistsare at it again. It is Christmas time, the season of good cheerwhere we celebrateJesus’ birth, but rather thandoing that,a group called American Atheists invite us by way of their new billboard campaign to “Go ahead and skip church! Just be good for goodness’ sake.” As if that’s even possible. Sure, anyone, […]

All around the political blogosphere you can find folks smacking their lips over the prospect of a “brokered” Republican national convention. They look forward to the spectacle of delegates assembling in Cleveland with no candidate having a majority, of multiple ballots with governors, floor demonstrations after nominating speeches, congressmen running as favorite sons and delegates […]

The republican “Democracy Project” was on full display in Tuesday night’s debate. The establishment candidates from Bush to Kasich and Christie all espoused virtually identical views on the Middle East and particularly the handling of Bashir al-Assad in Syria. But now you count newly crowned establishment wunderkind, Marco Rubio as having the same policy preference. It […]

After the latest Republican presidential debate, The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin argued that Ted Cruz had undone himself “courting” the “Trumpkin base,” sinking “further into the far-right brew of isolationism and xenophobia.” And to prove this contention, Rubin grabbed hold of two words Cruz used, “America” and “first,” to claim that the senator from Texas […]

On May 1, 2003 on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln then President George W. Bush, after becoming the first U.S. president to land on an aircraft carrier in a fixed wing aircraft (in a dashing olive drab flight suit), declared underneath an enormous “Mission Accomplished” banner that “major combat operations” in Iraq had been […]