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September 2009

Sarah Palin Brilliant?

“The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.” –Adlai E. Stevenson Ok I am just innocently going on my twitter looking for someone to argue with or see who was the latest celebrity [...]

Punkin’ America, The Katie & Glenn Beck Interview

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it. ~P.J. O’Rourke I can’t help but laugh when I look at the fiasco that is Glenn [...]

Why Socialism?

by Albert Einstein This essay was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is. Let us first consider the [...]

The Real Threat To America

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right. ~H.L. Mencken, 1956 300 million people in the U.S. and most people are completely lost as to what the Real Threat to America is. You talk [...]