Category: Serious Commentary
Real Patriots Versus Pretentious Patriots
The term traitor has taken on new connotations in recent years. Once meant to determine someone who has with serious and direct intent caused damage to a nation or its inhabitants; the recent mutation of its meaning is to indicate…
Unemployment Dips, Executive Pay Soars (with little taxes)
Unemployment took an unexpected turn for the better, with 216,000 new jobs added to payroll last month. And while The USA Today reported that 2010 saw median incomes rise 2.1%, it also reported that median CEO pay jumped 27% for…
Senator Jim DeMint, Calls to De-Fund PBS/NPR; Crazy or Just a Liar?
Jim DeMint, Crazy of Just Plain Full of Shizz? Recent addition to the Fair & Balanced FOX club, Wall Street Journal, has published an editorial by one of the most fair, most balanced senators in the history of America. Sure,…
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Aretha Sang It, Obama Shows It
For all you can say for or against Barack Obama as President, there is one huge thing can be said in his favor. He has returned a forgotten key ingredient of crucial diplomatic etiquette to the forefront and that is…
Why Do We Let An Australian Tell Us What We Should Think?
Day after day, hour after hour, millions of Americans tune in willingly to hear political diatribe that is specially designed to align their political beliefs in a particular direction. Amidst stunning eye-catching graphics and up-to-the-minute news bytes, various pundits slam…
Tunisians Going About Their Revolution The Right Way
The revolution in Tunisia is one gone right. In an astonishingly short time a popular uprising in this small North African nation has brought thousands of disgruntled people out on the streets in such force that the dictatorial President Ben…
Juan Williams vs Byron Williams – A Real Snapshot of Media Bias
Lets call this the case of two Williams. It is a case study in the state of the journalism system in this country. Everyone has heard of the case of Juan Williams getting fired by NPR over some lukewarm comments…
Middle America Vast, but Moderate America Massive
Politicians and pundits in recent years have harped on the tired adage of “real America”, though the term is as uncertain as climate change. That is to say, it’s a very clear metric, but staunch conservatives are just in plain…
Candidate with the Biggest Mouth or Most Bizarre Message Wins
In the run up to the this year’s mid-term elections we’ve seen some of the most bizarre behavior and comments coming out of the candidates, especially those who claim to be ordinary Americans wanting to take America back. Come time…
How I Hate My Wife’s Magazines “for Women”
These woman’s magazines that my wife read are filled with well-fashioned commercials of materialistic and luxury-seeking beauty and life styles. So much that I can smell the hands of the high intellectuals who have carefully crafted these rhetoric to fool…