The crazed, blazing rhetoric gets confusing. Barack Obama has done too little about the economy. Obama has done too much. Two opposing critiques, same set of mouths. As in: Obama is pro-big government and anti-business. Oh, but of course, he’s in the pocket of big business. (You know, BP.) …
Oil seeped from a hole in the Gulf’s heart. State budgets continued to bleed from the worst economy since food riots. The Afghan military ordeal officially became Vietnam-long. And what was America talking about? Football. And not even the World Cup brand, which at least was about to be played. America was…
We don’t know this to be unprecedented. The girls generally have demurred in the public eye. But one of the Bush twins now stands guilty of committing truth. Or heresy, to those who think health care is a privilege of being born on a proper plot of ground. Those people also will…
The children are out, frolicking in the green — summer stretched before them like the promise of youth. And some people want to shut them indoors again, want to batten the hatches, pass out more sheets with bubbles, return them to their crouches. Those people would include the nation’s top…
The Internet thread contained that familiar aroma of pasture patties. Did you know, it said, that a mosque was going up at the very spot of the 9/11 attacks? Well, not exactly. This was just the first of a string of anti-Muslim, anti-Barack (Hussein) Obama fallacies, or at least just enough fact mixed…