January 23, 2009
Now that the last of the revelers have gone home, the tuxedos and fancy ball gowns put back under plastic and the decorative bunting ready for recycling, the Obama Administration is open for business. And not a second too soon. In his...
The K.F. Stone Weekly
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January 22, 2009
For being our FIRST African-American and Female President. "there was a brief window (just after noon) when George Bush and Dick Cheney were no longer President and Vice President, but Barack Obama and Joe Biden also were not yet qualified to enter on the Execution of their offices." h/t Redstate...
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January 20, 2009
President-Elect Obama sees himself, we are told by the fawning media (as detailed by Sister Toldjah and Powerline), as the new Abraham Lincoln, who was a Republican, the Democrats being historically the party of slavery, Jim Crow laws and segregation. Let us hope that does not mean that he intends t...
EU Referendum
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January 18, 2009
I wish I were smart enough to come up with a list like this. The good news is my friends at TP are smart enough. From TP: Next week, “change is coming to America,� as President George W. Bush wraps up his tenure as one of the worst American presidents ever. He wasn’t able to accomplish such a...
Where's the Outrage?
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January 09, 2009
Although certainly not as volatile as the present-day New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ, presidential rankings do possess a significant degree of elasticity and movement. Not surprisingly, there is wide consensus on which presidents rank a...
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December 08, 2008
Obama is still smoking. You know it and I know it and if you believed that he really had quit that smile he gave on Meet the Press yesterday was a dead giveaway that he hasn’t. According to him he’s tried to quit and he’s ‘ fallen off the wagon a few times ‘, code word...
conversations with an unapologetic black liberal
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November 28, 2008
As a Tennessean, I am proud that my state produced the most insane President ever elected to office. That President was Andrew Jackson. I was recently excited to find him listed as one of the most badass presidents of all time in an excellent article on Cracked.com. (The aforementioned article is al...
Film School Rejects
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Mister Hand
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November 03, 2008
 Open letter to all of my friends.. Dear Friends.. In a few hours you and I will have the opportunity to make a difference. We will have the chance to raise our voices in unison in a call for change-a call for a new direction.  If we succeed it will be the end of the world as we’ve kno...
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June 17, 2008
For those who asked which biography of Jefferson I read, I chose American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph Ellis. I read his excellent Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation a couple years ago during one of the most academically vapid semesters I ever had at the community...
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May 30, 2008
Via LBJ's Newly Released Oval Office Recordings Disclose His Deep Feelings toward Israel: Tapes of Lyndon Johnson's Oval Office conversations, released to the public for the first time on Wednesday, reveal that the American president had a personal and often emotional connection to Israel. "I sure a...
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