All I Want for Christmas Is… a Revolution

It’s Christmas time and nothing would stave off the cold and unemployment better than a revolution.  Lenin gave history one of its most famous...

Gingrich Reverses Stance on Child Labor. Endorses Slavery as Alternative

Current frontrunner Republican candidate Newt Gingrich backed away from comments he recently made calling child labor laws “stupid” and explained that what he really...

Obama Has Become What He Thinks and It Ain’t Pretty

 I did not think I would have to come out against a particular presidential candidate. But it just happened. As the founder of Buddhism, Prince...

Market Mindlessness

It is a truism that the stock market is a leading economic indicator—that is, how the market does tells us something about how the...

David Texting Goliath to Look Down

NYPD helicopters regularly wake me in the middle of the night.  Usually they’re looking for someone who accidentally shot a close relative while intending...

Latest Wikileaks Release: Republican Presidential Candidate Emails

On Saturday Wikileaks published a new set of emails to its website, this time featuring emails sent among the leading Republican presidential candidates. It...

Is That Waldo?

No. That is the Orthodox Church's best new friend. He is Traian Basescu, the two-term Romanian President. His severe cuts of wages and social...

Giuliani Out of Presidential Race—Unsure of Lunch Plans

Oct 11 (Reuters) - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Tuesday he will not enter the race for the Republican nomination to run...

The Genius of Herman Cain (ruined by a Ben Stiller movie)

 The Republican primary season (can something that lasts 18 months be considered a season?) is nothing if not entertaining. Trump's self-proclaimed victory over Obama...

The Affability of Evil. An Evening with Dick Cheney

It is not often, in my experience, that a person is given the chance to find out what he will sell out for. In...

Mitt Romney’s Critique of Rick Perry, and Political Musings

This summer, thanks to a grant awarded to study politics, literature, and theology at Cornell, I spent a good deal of time studying in...

De Gustibus

America’s future is becoming Amy Winehouse’s.  SNL’s Seth Meyers would probably say, “Really?”. Really. With one caveat. We are not interested in leaving any mourners...
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Don’t Know Much About History: Lessons in Presidential (and would-be presidential) Situational Ethics, Plus...

To paraphrase the eminent Ms. Palin (ignoring for the moment that most of the time she sounds as if she's having difficulty paraphrasing herself),...

How the Incumbent Lion (Obama) Fought to Lose the Presidency to the Phantom Contender

I know Aesop’s fable is about a wise lion who, tickled at the idea of a mouse helping him, let the mouse escape his...
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