Grandma said we’re Scots-Irish. The answer didn’t help much with my fourth grade class project on ancestry since she couldn’t tell me much more about it. “That’s what my Grandfather said we are,” she explained in that tone which meant…
Grandma said we’re Scots-Irish. The answer didn’t help much with my fourth grade class project on ancestry since she couldn’t tell me much more about it. “That’s what my Grandfather said we are,” she explained in that tone which meant…
The Tea Party movement plainly has roots in earlier political trends, but it’s tough to pinpoint a seminal moment, a spark out of which this ideology of tribal rage took its modern form. By accident over the weekend I think…
A friend shared with me some very disturbing information this week. He has evidence that seems to suggest that the Sandy Hook school shooting was staged by the government as a pretext to take away our guns. This shocking news…
The Federal Reconstruction effort that followed the Civil War is generally regarded as a failure, but over the past few decades a powerful combination of Federal intervention and global capitalism is transforming Southern life in ways that Yankee armies never…
Like many other freeloading losers, I receive a wide range of government handouts. Taxpayers give me money to pay for housing and health care. For years the government helped me pay my student loan interest. Federal money has helped me…
The Republican Party’s most electable candidate starts this race trailing Obama by only a few points in national polls. That seems like a promising development until you look at the map. At this point the most likely outcome of the…
The Religious Right and Tea Party groups are making the case that Romney could have won if he had more clearly and unambiguously embraced their policies. They are determined to force the Republican Party to stop nominating “moderates,” on the…