Category: Politics

Just click on the link below and vote to see the results… MSNBC Poll Thanks to Matt for sending this my way… chris

Arnold Schwarzenegger is severing ties with his hometown in Austria after politicians there had the gall (gasp!) to criticize him for allowing the execution of Tookie Williams to proceed. Arnold even asked them to take his name off the local stadium. Can’t take a little criticism, Arnold? Or are you hoping that denial of your…

She continues the list on the following day – if you really want to read about even more things that Arianna would like to forget, go to her blog (link at bottom of post). My favorite? “That voters could have gone to the polls in 2004 knowing that Bush was spying on Americans, that a…

Thanks again to David Stacy for his continually interesting and disturbing articles at stacynet “You are an asset! An expendable asset, and I used you to get the job done, got it!”-Col. Dillion (Predator) This Christmas, Ruth McGlothlin will prepare all of her usual holiday recipes for the family. The house will be filled with…

Millions of dollars in foreign aid have done little to improve the lives of many Africans. At the end of the day, Africans need to “save” Africa. People like Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf need to stay or to go back. And they need to channel foreign aid into well-considered programs that people actually want, and keep track…

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Africa’s first democratically-elected female president, Liberia’s “Iron Lady,” a grandmother, and a Harvard-educated economist) is Liberia’s best hope in decades. She has been through hell and she went back to try to make it a better place. The protests of her opponent, soccer-star George Weah, carry ugly echos of the warlords that preceded…

Thanks to David Stacey for writing and letting me know about his newest article at Stacynet.com I did not get my Spaghetti-O’s, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.-Thomas Grasso (Executed in Oklahoma) Kenneth Lee Boyd, come on down, you are the next contestant on the “Capital Punishment Showâ€?. Kenneth, do I…

Thanks to Chuck for sending this my way. I’ve always been a fan of anarcho capitalism. I believe, in fact, that a true free market is the only way to achieve true freedom. This link delves into the specifics of the philosophy… cd Anarcho-capitalism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anarcho-capitalism is a philosophy based on…

I can see how Kazakhstan might be a little miffed… but, c’mon, Kazakhstan, you have to admit it’s pretty fukn funny, no? ALMATY (Reuters) – The authorities in Kazakhstan, angered by a British comedian’s satirical portrayal of a boorish, sexist and racist Kazakh television reporter, have pulled the plug on his alter ego’s Web site….