Spending money like Teabag water: If Rubio can't balance his checkbook...
Mitt Romney and Mr. Rubio arriving in Kissimmee, Fla., on a presidential campaign stop in October 2012. Mr. Romney's campaign flagged Mr. Rubio's financial issues when vetting him as a possible...
View ArticleHeadline: The non-Zumwalt littoral Navy
they only built three of theseRemember the Bath Maine Zumwalt-class destroyer
View ArticleMore testing: Renaming US military bases
For many, renaming current US military bases that have been named for Confederate generals seems a "bridge too far", so there are some generic facilities that could appropriately be named for other...
View Articlelacking Grace: Flag mania trumps loss of Faith in a free market for symbols
x YouTube Video “They got a goddamn day for Confederate flags. This is some bullshit!” says the (presumably black) man filming this video, “I wonder what kind of motherfuckin’...
View ArticleKenneth the Page: He's tan, rested, ready to fight...
In announcing his bid for the presidency, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said that he was tired of "all this talk about hyphenated Americans" and that he was "tanned, rested, and ready for this...
View ArticleWYFP? Life is like Damocles Sword or a falling box of raspberry chocolates
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and share advice, pootie pictures, favorite adult beverages, and anything else that we think...
View ArticleLizzie Borden: a case of being too cleaver
Most of the officers who interviewed Lizzie reported that they disliked her attitude; some said she was too calm and poised. Despite Lizzie's "attitude" and changing alibis, nobody bothered to check...
View ArticleSpike Strips for the Clown Car - More debates are not better debates for the...
The number of political debates seems irrelevant in an age of DVRs, YouTube, and podcasts but this is the moment where the Democratic party could actually use the format to finally crush the GOP and...
View ArticleDonald Trump as Snidely Whiplash
Trump versus the widows & orphansAn NPR outlet claims that tRump's opposition is looking for any reason to trash The Donald and his current feud with the Club for Growth means that libertarians'...
View ArticleTwo Trumps enter, one Trump leaves as Master-Brander
We may see real power brokerage at the GOP convention with delegates as the capital - a new arbitrage tool for tRump. If he's savvy, Trump will have one of his media partners do a documentary of his...
View ArticleGOP members of DK, your Vote for Carly is a Vote for Horror
"It’s so weird — she looks like one of us, but she’s not." Polling within DK shows that at least 3% of the population of Kossacks are GOP members / voters....
View Articlegetting back the $7 Trillion in offshore Tax Havens
If you’re rich and you don’t want to pay taxes, here’s a way to go. Drop that billion in a secret bank account abroad. It’s illegal, but there are plenty of people who will help you do it. And there...
View Article9 minutes of Young Republicanism
Young Republicans wherever you are, you have nothing to lose but your snacks. Like one future mayor of Bridgeport, Waterbury, or Hartford, or even Governor of Connecticut, a nutmegger in search of...
View ArticleFreshman kills 1, wounds 3 at the frat party: Beta vengeance Emo Twinkz
the alleged shooter: "’Merica,' he wrote for a July 4th selfie of himself with a shotgun slung over his shoulder, donning an American flag shirt and hat." Even if he shot in self-defense, an 18-year...
View ArticleThey Killed the GOP - You Bastards!
With the continued dithering of the GOP over who will be its next Speaker of the House of Representatives, although my bet would be on Paul Ryan once he figures out he can never become POTUS, we now...
View ArticleMy Vote for the next Secretary of Defense
Yet if predicting the future is a hopeless endeavor, learning from the past is not. The counterinsurgency books that Nagl studied do impart an important lesson. The goal the United States hopes to...
View ArticleACM 25 October --- homelessness is only in the mind
Work has become a means to stay alive rather than life being an opportunity to do work. Living, mere existence, has always been a necessary pre-condition for engaging in productive activity, but in...
View ArticleNeo-Classical Liberalism: Whadda Concept!
Classical libertarianism, per Wikipedia, "...is a political philosophy that upholds liberty as its principal objective. Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and freedom of choice, emphasizing...
View ArticlePresident Marco Polo Rubio: The GOP's Savior
The leaked 112 page GOP oppo-research playbook on the last debate has given Republico more grist for the Clown Car grill or mist for the Clown Club rumor mill: "Marco Is A Risky Bet" While the slides...
View ArticleWYFP? Where's DK5! Did Waldo kidnap it? Is it being "disciplined" by a...
So I was being patient about letting my draft “story” appear whenever the projected time which coincidentally was the normal start time, but now with the additional delays, here’s what it would have...
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