| Dec 26, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyThe Iowa caucuses may be over by the time you read this. But it doesn’t matter. The caucuses are the second-most fraudulent event on the nation’s political calendar. The first, of course, is the Ames Straw Poll. It’s entirely meaningless, but...
| Dec 12, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyMea culpa, I misspoke, my bad. I stand corrected. I have called Newt Gingrich a lobbyist. Apparently, he hates that tag, even though he has indeed gotten very wealthy by taking big bucks from such special interest outfits as IBM, Astra Zeneca, Microsoft, and Siemens...
| Dec 5, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyNein! Nein! Nein! Say it ain’t so. Oh dear Herman, Please don’t go! Your chutzpah, Your halo, Your unrivaled hubris, Your lack of embarrassment about being clueless. We didn’t care that your tax plan was dumb,We didn’t care that 9-9-9 made us...
| Oct 31, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyI was out of the country for a couple of weeks and came back to be greeted by yet another Republican presidential debate. I was so pleased. I hadn’t realized how much I missed that goofy bunch of crazy kids. I’ve grown especially fond of Ron Paul, the...
