IS RASH LIMBO THE BOSS OF THE REPUBLICANS - BY DEFAULT?What about Newt Gingrich, you ask? C'mon - Newt is SO-15 years-ago.    (Click on any image to ENLARGE it)       Dean Baker  "... According to the Congressional Budget Office, Social Security is fully funded through the year 2049 with...

    February 5, 2ôô9 NAVIGATING THE FRINGE STREAM- LISTING A BIT TO THE LEFT... Minister of Rants - it‘s the #1 blog among people who forgive Keith Olberman for his misspent youth blabbng about sports... (Click on any image to ENLARGE it) 50 YEARS AGO: The Music Died...In a snowy field in Iowa...

President Obama will move early to end the 15-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" policy that has prevented homosexual and bisexual men and women from serving openly within the U.S. military, Robert Gibbs, spokesman for the president-elect has said. In the years since Bill Clinton bobbled the issue of ...

    JANUARY 13, 2ôô9   We're ba-a-ack! Da Rev has taken a few weeks R & R. The return is marked by what we hope is a simpler, sharper focus for the blog. ENJOY... & Comment!  Click on any image to ENLARGE it) A veteran economist and a rookie economist are walking down the road. They co...

On Sunday, January 11th the official Seattle Jewish community will host a “solidarity rally” for Israel at Temple DeHirsh Sinai.  The purpose of the event is to support Israeli policy and specifically its attack on Gaza.  One of the main speakers at the solidarity rally will be Nevet ...

Here are my picks for the most Chazak Pro-Israel blogs. These are my "must reads." Smooth Stone Point of Pinchas Daled Amos Boker Tov, Boulder Biur Chametz Yeranen Yaakov and the kick-butt, up to the minute news from the front... The Muqata Keep up the awesomeness!...

You’ve got to hand it to those cracker-jack propaganda experts at the Israeli foreign ministry. They’ve finally figured out how to make the world love Israel. It doesn’t involve changing Israeli policy or anything as obvious as that. No, that would too easy. The foreign ministry wa...

WELL HOWDY, REV'LERS! I’m Rev. Art. That's our next-door neighbor Butch - He stuck mistletoe in the studded collars on his pit bulls. Welcome to our crib in Metro Fairborn and THE HOLIDAZED STAND-UP!               MERRY CHRISMA -HANUKKA- WANZA ! Fleece Nahbabanah! Season’s Greeting...

My goodness, Jonathan Tobin, rightist pro-Israel editor of the Philadelphia Jewish Exponent says in The Forward that M.J. Rosenberg is a brazen vulgarian.  I’m sure M.J. will never live this down.  I guess being that Tobin edits a newspaper, he must not spend much time on the internet or he ...

  Just a note to let you know about a small format change: "Politics & Skin" will publish on this site, but in a separate posting and, usually, on a different schedule from "The Stand - Up"... As always thanks for your continuing interest in Minister of Rants. ____________ And, of course - P...