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America Falls Out the Overton Window The Overton Window is not just the name of a potboiler by Glenn Beck. It actually refers to a theoretical political model that attempts to clarify Bismark's famous observation that "politics is the art of the possible." Not the literally possible, mind...	Aug 4, 10	Petrarch	2
Impeachment, High Crimes and Miss Kagan As anti-Constitutionalist Elena Kagan continues her uninterrupted march towards a Supreme Court seat, the divide of political opinion grows ever deeper. On the left, the New York Times heartily endorses her because, as their Editors wrote: Ms. Kagan...	Jul 7, 10	Petrarch	6
Colin Powell's Revenge Retired General Colin Powell is one of the most-respected men in American public life and has been for many years. As a longtime holder of high office in both our military and civilian realms, his vast breadth of experience offers rare insight into the ...	Jul 2, 10	Petrarch	1
Of Presidents, BP, and Kings The other day, Rep. Joe Barton really put his foot in it: Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its ranking Republican, used a congressional hearing on the spill to accuse Obama of engineering a "$20 ...	Jun 24, 10	Petrarch	0
Honest Abe Spoke the Truth You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -- President Abraham Lincoln In Presidential elections, you don't have to fool all the peo...	Jun 21, 10	Will Offensicht	0
Obama's Bogus Watergate The extreme polarization of modern politics has led to an environment in which charges of criminality are carelessly thrown around on a daily basis. Many Americans have become so jaded as to tune it out, figuring that most politicians are liars and chea...	Jun 7, 10	Petrarch	0
Obama Bites the Wealthy Hands that Feed Him As long as there has been politics, there have been political betrayals. The unfulfilled dream of every captain of industry is to find a politician who is dishonest enough to accept bribes, but honest enough to stay bought long enough for the buyer to g...	Apr 28, 10	Petrarch	2
Mean Lies and Scam As every American has been reminded daily for well over a year, we are blessed to be ruled by an historic prodigy who is by far the most brilliant and qualified individual ever to set foot in the Oval Office. Not merely the greatest politician, orator, ...	Apr 13, 10	Hobbes	2
A Little Humility, Please, Maestro Obama! People who participated in the Obamacare debate recognized that the bill would set up government panels to determine what illnesses had to be covered by every medical insurance plan in the land. Sarah Palin realized that the panels would also determine ...	Mar 16, 10	Will Offensicht	8
America the Ungovernable? Over the last few weeks, a new meme has popped up and taken firm root in the mainstream media: the idea that America is currently ungovernable. Here we have a President and Congress from the same party, with overwhelming majorities, and yet somehow they...	Mar 10, 10	Petrarch	17
Obamacare and the Marquis de Sade It's becoming difficult to come up with fresh new introductions to all the articles about Obamacare that say "We thought this thing was dead, but danged if it hasn't come back to life again!" Desperate pundits are striving to discover creative ways to u...	Mar 1, 10	Petrarch	4
Our Cartoon-Physics President The last six weeks have been about the most politically disastrous time seen by a President since the final days of Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon. First, the near-success of a Muslim terrorist armed with exploding underpants, thwarted only by an al...	Jan 29, 10	Hobbes	2
Dr. King's Judgment One year ago, America had just elected the First Truly Black President. The long road to equality had been traveled; blacks had smashed the ultimate glass ceiling, and Barack Obama stood ready to usher in the new Promised Land of smooth race relations ...	Jan 18, 10	Petrarch	1
It's Your War Now, Mr. President! Mr. Obama blames the Bush administration whenever he's criticized about the economy. The mainstream media go along with him, of course, despite British papers pointing out that Democratic fingerprints are all over the recession. The American people wil...	Jan 8, 10	Will Offensicht	4
Must Mr. Obama Flunk Foreign Affairs 1.01 Yet Again? There's a saying that all politics is local. That may be true in places like Chicago, but it's an unfortunate fact that the President of the United States has to worry about what's going on in other countries. Back before the 2008 Presidential election...	Jan 4, 10	Will Offensicht	1
Obama + Climategate = Nixon? Some of us at Scragged remember the 1972 Watergate burglary. A group of Republican supporters were caught breaking into the Democratic campaign headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex. Although dismissed by President Nixon as a "third-rate burg...	Dec 14, 09	Will Offensicht	0
Reagan Reincarnated in Oslo! Two months ago, the world got to enjoy an unexpected guffaw when the Nobel Prize Committee, clearly after a night of overdosing on especially powerful weed, awarded the Peace Prize to none other than Barack Hussein Obama. While it's not unprecedented fo...	Dec 11, 09	Hobbes	1
Time To Leave Afghanistan After cogitating, ruminating, and meditating over the question for longer than many entire wars, Barack Obama has finally decided what to do about Afghanistan: A few more troops for now, then, everybody out in 18 months. It would be difficult to imagi...	Dec 10, 09	Petrarch	10
Thank You, Mr. Obama! Our Gentle Readers may not have noticed, but Scragged's online archives go back all the way to the very first article we ever published, more than 680 articles ago. It used to be said that newspapers were the first draft of history; online opinion sites...	Nov 26, 09	Petrarch	5
Mr. Obama IS SO Stimulating The Economy! Mr. Obama, contrary to some indications, does pay attention to what's going out here in the real world of taxpaying citizens. For one thing, he's noticed that the stimulus plan he espoused simply isn't working. Instead of appropriating money to stimula...	Oct 19, 09	Will Offensicht	4
Choking on Norwegian Nobel Kool-Aid From the snowy reaches of Norway comes this announcement: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and...	Oct 13, 09	Petrarch	8
Olympic-Caliber Racism As all the world now knows, Chicago will not host the 2012 Olympic Games. That honor, and the bill, goes instead to Rio de Janeiro. This would not ordinarily be a major political issue; it would appear on the front page of the sports section, then p...	Oct 5, 09	Hobbes	2
Obama Steals Ron Paul's Isolationist Clothes It's about as well remembered by the common American man-on-the-street these days as the life and times of Mansa Musa, but when George W. Bush was preparing to invade Iraq, he was not alone in thinking this was a good idea. Prominent Democrats from Hill...	Oct 2, 09	Petrarch	4
More "Racism," Please! Last November, when a victorious Barack Obama stood in a Chicago square and proclaimed "Change has come to America," the vast majority of Americans - whether they'd voted for him or not - hoped that he was right in one particular way: that the election o...	Sep 24, 09	Hobbes	3
Two Little Words The stage was set: the scenery in place, the players each in their appointed spot. With all the pomp and ceremony accumulated over a period of all of two centuries, the President of the United States prepared to address a joint session of Congress, the ...	Sep 15, 09	Hobbes	2
Lies and Lying Liars Throughout its existence, Scragged has generally tried to maintain a tone of decorum, polite debate, and erudite explanations of political disagreements. Not generally for us the harsh invective of an Ann Coulter, to say nothing of the profanity-laced v...	Sep 14, 09	Petrarch	6
Healthcare Reform, or, Watch the Pea! A recent Politico story announced that President Obama has, once again, dropped the "public option" from the health care reform proposals. First it was in, then it was out, then some in Congress insisted it was in, while some insisted it was out. All g...	Sep 8, 09	Fennoman	2
Affirmative Action In Heaven? One would have hoped that Barack Obama's assumption to the Presidency would have driven a stake through the heart of the government-sponsored racist practice of affirmative action. Alas, no; the most powerful man in the world has repeatedly demonstrate...	Aug 24, 09	Hobbes	5
Left Turn to Treason 2 In the first half of this article, we discussed one of the longest-running contradictions in modern politics: the fact that conservatives so often consider their liberal colleagues to be anti-American traitors even though that sort of attack tends to ba...	Aug 13, 09	Petrarch	6
Left Turn to Treason 1 For many years, conservatives have criticized what they see as an assault by leftists on everything that makes America great. From Sen. McCarthy's accusations of Communists under every bed in the 1950s - which, though he was disgraced at the time, turne...	Aug 10, 09	Petrarch	1
Of Truthers and Birthers One of the more interesting aspects of living in a country which enjoys freedom of speech is that people actually use it. It's all too easy to love freedom of speech in the abstract but when you hear somebody spouting rubbish, to say "Well, of course fr...	Jul 29, 09	Petrarch	4
Teaching Moments with the President, the Policeman, and the Prof By now, just about everybody in the United States knows that President Obama called the entire Cambridge police force "stupid" because its Sergeant Crowley arrested his good friend Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates for disorderly conduct. Mistakes ...	Jul 28, 09	Will Offensicht	4
Mr. Obama Speaks Truth to Power - In Africa No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top, or the head of the port authority is corrupt. No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. That is not...	Jul 13, 09	Will Offensicht	2
Kim Jong Il Can't Get No Respect Beginning back during his campaign, Mr. Obama said that he planned to "reset" the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. Not long after taking office, Hillary symbolized this pledge by presenting a prop "reset" button to the Russia...	Jul 10, 09	Will Offensicht	1
Obama's Revealing Iran Delay Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity. - President George W. Bush The people...	Jun 24, 09	Petrarch	0
Our First Thin-Skinned President We've often praised the "dead white males" who wrote our Constitution; we're daily reminded of how intelligent and far-sighted they were. Back when they gave us a divided government, they wisely realized that the various branches of government could con...	Jun 23, 09	Will Offensicht	2
Spin, Lies, Politicians, and the Wisdom of Crowds The American electorate has become accustomed to finding that pronouncements out of Washington DC are sometimes, er, let's just say that they're sometimes at variance with the facts, particularly if you include spin. At President Obama's April 29 news ...	May 29, 09	Will Offensicht	5
Barack Obama's Democrats Promote White Supremacy Over the last few weeks, the Democratic party of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid has willfully destroyed the educational opportunities of thousands of inner-city black children through fraud and deceit, in exactly the same way as the vicious ...	May 8, 09	Petrarch	5
Questions for America from Down Under I've seen it all before: American and allied troops engaged in a deadly asymmetrical war far away from home, and while they are off fighting and dying, the usual suspects are emerging from the woodwork in protest movements. I read right across the Ameri...	May 7, 09	Christopher Marlowe	0
The CIA's Coming Revenge on Obama Ever since our military started capturing al-Qaeda terrorists and putting them to the question, the angry left has been screaming about "torture." An end to such "torture" was a significant plank in Mr. Obama's victory platform, and perhaps surprisingly...	May 5, 09	Petrarch	13
Cuba: Next Stop on Obama's Global Apology Tour In 1959, Elvis was the King of Rock 'n Roll, American teens drove huge-finned cars and rebuilt 1930's hot rods to sock-hop dances, and Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, the hero general of D-Day, oversaw a happy and contented America from the Oval Office. ...	Apr 14, 09	Petrarch	2
Government Power and Obama's 40 Thieves Q: What's the difference between Jesus and Mr. Obama? A: Jesus could put together a cabinet. By hook or by crook, Mr. Obama has finally succeeded in cobbling together something resembling a Cabinet - though as the British have written, he seems to b...	Mar 13, 09	Petrarch	4
Is Aborting Black Kids' Education Stupid? Or Evil? There's a saying: never assume hostility for anything that can be explained by stupidity. People who've coped with life for multiple decades recognize that stupidity explains a lot because there's so much of it. There comes a point, however, when resu...	Mar 11, 09	Will Offensicht	1
Our Black President Helping Blacks Would Help ALL Americans As everyone in the world including pristine African tribes is well aware, Barack Obama is our first black President and the most powerful black man in all of history. No doubt there are KKK knuckle-draggers who are unhappy with this; but by and large, M...	Mar 9, 09	Petrarch	2
Is Barack Obama Inexperienced, Unintelligent, or Both? Having watched Candidate Obama make proposals which destroyed jobs and harmed job creation, we at Scragged have come to believe that Mr. Obama's team has spent so long in politics that, never having had to meet a payroll, they have no idea how the privat...	Mar 2, 09	Will Offensicht	13
Bobby Jindal, Nixon, and Symbolism over Substance The 1960 Presidential election pitted two great lions of American politics against each other - John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. The pair could hardly have been more different both personally and politically - Nixon with his lower-class heritage an...	Feb 27, 09	Petrarch	2
The Wisdom of Professor Obama Last April 14 when Mr. Obama was still in a two-candidate race with Hillary for the Democratic nomination, National Public Radio reported that he had accused a great many rural voters of being bitter. Obama's key lines, which were published on Huffin...	Feb 18, 09	Will Offensicht	0
Iran Is Right With most of the political oxygen consumed by the fiasco of Obama nominating criminals to his cabinet and public attention directed mostly on the astonishing trillion-dollar pork package being pushed through under the guise of a "stimulus" plan, it's eas...	Feb 13, 09	Petrarch	3
Candidate Obama Stole My Job, President Obama Won't Give It Back I started working for a startup in November, 2007. The boss had a good idea, but he didn't have enough money to develop the product. He got a rich investor to cover the development costs which everybody thought would take two years. So we started wor...	Feb 11, 09	Guest Editorial	11
The President, First Cheerleader My children have a floor puzzle depicting all 43 presidents, in order. It's quite an impressive and thought-provoking sight to see them all lined up. No doubt the very first thought provoked in the minds of somewhere around 56% of viewers would be, "L...	Jan 28, 09	Petrarch	0
I Support the President I support the President, but... Even before the war started the anti-war crowd started chanting the mantra "We support the troops, but we don't support the war." This, of course, was their way of committing treason while pretending to be patriotic. ...	Jan 22, 09	Fennoman	47
Cut Obama Some Slack - Change Is Tough President Barack Hussein Obama ran on a platform of "change." He wasn't entirely specific about what he wanted to change, nor how, but it's pretty clear that just about everyone throughout the spectrum of American politics all across the fruited plain ...	Jan 21, 09	Will Offensicht	2
Please Don't Shoot President Obama The day long awaited by the left, memorialized on innumerable T-shirts, bumper stickers, buttons, and countdown clocks, has finally arrived: 1/20/09, "Bush's Last Day." Despite nutroots disappointment by Mr. Obama's relatively centrist Cabinet appointme...	Jan 20, 09	Hobbes	4
The Last King Day Today celebrates the eightieth anniversary of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., although, thanks to the modern preference for the long weekend, his actual natal anniversary was last week. Tomorrow, tens of thousands in D.C. and millions around...	Jan 19, 09	Petrarch	3
Obamanomics for Dummies During the Presidential campaign, Mr. Obama spoke of adjusting the tax system in favor of fairness, even at the cost of lower government tax receipts. He's gone to great lengths to explain that fairness means he'll tax the rich and give the money to the...	Jan 8, 09	Will Offensicht	1
The Year of the Rookie The American economy, and the world economy as a whole, are facing the most storm-clouded sky that we have seen in many years. Stockmarkets around the world have seen record crashes and national economics, if not exactly plummeting, are certainly doing...	Dec 31, 08	Petrarch	2
Lying Down with Swine President-elect Barack Obama has not even had the chance to remove the "-elect" from his title and a good portion of the electorate are suffering buyer's remorse. Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, to say nothing of Robert Gates as Secretary of Def...	Dec 15, 08	Petrarch	1
The Birth of The One At this festive time of year, we ought to be concentrating on the celebration of the birth of the One Who came to save us from our sins. Instead, we find ourselves ensnared in a bizarre argument over the natal circumstances of The One who comes bearing...	Dec 8, 08	Petrarch	60
Hearts of Darkness The recent terrorist atrocities in Bombay, India, have forcibly returned the War on Terrorism to global attention. People in the West have been lucky for some time now in enjoying the absence of terrorist attacks. You've certainly had other things to ...	Dec 5, 08	Will Offensicht	12
An Open Letter to Mr. Obama Dear Mr. Obama, Congratulations on your historic winning of the 2008 presidential election. Taking a clue from Chuck Norris, I'm writing this open letter to you--as one of your bosses. The reality is I doubt you'll ever actually see this letter. If...	Dec 3, 08	Fennoman	5
Joe the Plumber and the Myth of Privacy We recently received a message headed "Joe the Plumber and the Ohio cretins who tried to wreck him." The message referred to an article written by Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher which said: It wasn't more than twenty-four hours after the debate when ...	Dec 2, 08	Will Offensicht	1
Thanks for Nothing? This is not much of a time for thankfulness. We are, we are told, suffering through the worst economic slump since the Great Depression. Businesses everywhere are contracting, and what yesterday were the most stable, respected, and wealthy firms are...	Nov 27, 08	Petrarch	0
As the World Turns - Against Obama Throughout the course of the election, one of the many reasons given why we should vote for Barack Obama was that the world loves him, and if he is president, the world will have a different view of the United States. George W. Bush, according to the ma...	Nov 24, 08	Petrarch	1
Hillary, the Great Right Hope In the 2008 election cycle, brimful as it was of astounding surprises, unforeseeable twists, and shocking results, perhaps nothing was more jaw-dropping than the change of the viewpoint of conservatives towards Hillary Clinton. As the campaign began, J...	Nov 20, 08	Petrarch	3
The Great Media Coup(s?) To anyone who paid attention to election news other than what's on TV, there's not the slightest question that the mainstream media were wholeheartedly in support of Mr. Obama's candidacy, to the point of engaging in wanton disregard of fairness, decency...	Nov 18, 08	Petrarch	3
This Racist Election The sheer heights of joy and giddiness on the part of Mr. Obama's supporters, most definitely including the media, is something to behold. One would almost think Osama bin Laden had been captured and the Islamofascists converted en masse to social-democ...	Nov 14, 08	Petrarch	20
Obama Can Heal America. Will He? When Richard Milhous Nixon was elected President in 1969, the United States had no diplomatic relations with what's now called "China"; instead, we formally behaved as if what's now Taiwan was the master of the whole, which had long been a preposterous i...	Nov 13, 08	Will Offensicht	5
Republicans' Future From Across the Pond So now the Republican party plods, dispirited and disgusted, into the wilderness. Countless keystrokes have been sacrificed to detail the manifold reasons why Republicans deserve every bit of this shame; countless more, no doubt, will be expended to des...	Nov 10, 08	Petrarch	2
Must We Suffer The Obama Depression? The 2008 election will inspire books and articles for decades to come, and understandably so. We have never before seen an election composed of so many twists and turns, so many unexpected surprises and overthrows, but as Bill Clinton discovered so long...	Nov 7, 08	Petrarch	4
What's In a Name? Barack Hussein Obama. Over the course of this election, the subject of Mr. Obama's name has been discussed, but at strangely abbreviated length. Dare you use his middle name? Accusations of racism and/or Islamophobia instantly rain down upon your h...	Nov 6, 08	Petrarch	4
The Government We Deserve President Barack Hussein Obama. It's time to become accustomed to saying this. There will be other presidents, of course, but no matter what happens over the next eight years, President Barack Hussein Obama has earned his place in history as the firs...	Nov 5, 08	Petrarch	4
Reaganism's Last Stand? In the late winter of 1836, a handful of determined men gathered in a semi-fortified mission compound near San Antonio, Texas, and prepared to defy the forces of Mexican General Santa Anna. Texas was at that time a Mexican state, ruled from Mexico City....	Nov 4, 08	Petrarch	6
Barack Takes Chicago Politics Nationwide As this interminable election comes down to the wire, we see the last gasp of desperate efforts from both sides. It's in extremis that the true nature of a person, a candidate, or a political party can be seen; when you are stressed, your true self come...	Nov 3, 08	Petrarch	7
Campaign-Finance Laws Murdered by Obama If you're a conservative, this election has been mostly a progression from bad to worse as both parties chose their most liberal nominees ever, with only the occasional ray of light from the fall of Hillary Clinton and the rise of Sarah Palin. It's hard...	Oct 30, 08	Petrarch	0
Divine Right Strikes Again Americans used to believe that economic success came through luck and pluck. Luck and Pluck (1869) was the first of a series of dime novels by Horatio Alger about young men who succeeded through hard work. The series included Sink or Swim (1870), Stro...	Oct 29, 08	Will Offensicht	0
More Mudslinging, Please! "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." Perhaps your mother told you this when you were young, maybe while paddling your little backside for being mean to your sister. And it's not a bad rule, ordinarily. Politeness and manners ...	Oct 28, 08	Petrarch	0
Joe the Plumber and the Myth of Fairness "It's not fair!" is a common refrain I hear from my children. My favorite response has been "No, it isn't fair. Life isn't fair. Life will never be fair. Get over it." They don't like that response, but I figure it's my responsibility to teach them s...	Oct 20, 08	Fennoman	3
ACORN Stealing Democracy After avoiding the issue as long as possible, the mainstream media has finally been forced to pay attention to the crimes of the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, better known as ACORN. An umbrella organization of multifarious local ra...	Oct 16, 08	Petrarch	8
Too Left for George McGovern In the early 1970s, America was torn by the reverberating aftershocks of the 1960s. The sexual revolution, civil-rights era, feminism, and many other changes from the 1950s were still working their way through the national psyche. These two currents of...	Oct 15, 08	Petrarch	1
A Change Sen. Obama Won't Make A few months back, Sen. McCain passed up our advice to make a strong pitch promising school choice to black voters. We noted that most black parents are well aware of the potential of education to improve their children's lives - as long as ten years ag...	Oct 9, 08	Will Offensicht	2
McCain the Honest Thief Any American with assets to his name, or who hopes someday to get some, has suffered a few very anxious weeks as the markets twist slowly in the wind. Anyone who has been following the financial news is not enjoying a great deal of hope for the future....	Oct 8, 08	Petrarch	2
Treason? What's That? As the last semblance of civility in our political discourse dies, the American people have become so used to the over-the-top mudslinging that the attacks almost don't matter anymore. McCain calls Obama's attacks on him lies; Obama calls McCain's ads ...	Sep 30, 08	Petrarch	2
Between McCain and the Deep Blue Sea Being a Maverick is a lonely calling but it has its rewards. It's gratifying to become your party's presidential nominee, but it's exhilarating to do so after everyone else gave up your campaign for dead. It's one thing to make a wise selection of run...	Sep 26, 08	Petrarch	3
Media Insults 40% of Whites with Racist Poll Throughout the course of this Presidential campaign, comments about Barack Obama's heritage and hue have been a constant refrain from the left. Bill Clinton was the first to "play the race card" in South Carolina; from that day to this, there has been ...	Sep 23, 08	Petrarch	1
Barack Buys a Lemon A few weeks ago, Barack Obama was lauded for his wise selection of the highly respected, experienced, gravitas-laden Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential running-mate. My, how things change. Now, after John McCain's earthshaking selection of Ala...	Sep 15, 08	Hobbes	0
Palin Comparison In what must rank as one of the slickest schemes of political timing and thunder-stealing of recent years, John McCain managed to overshadow Obama's Speech of a Lifetime through adroit manipulation of the Washington rumor mill concerning his choice of vi...	Sep 3, 08	Petrarch	21
NATO Heads South It's been a few weeks since Russia invaded its tiny neighbor, the independent Republic of Georgia, while the rest of the world was paying attention to the Olympics. This came as a complete surprise. In a flashback to Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of K...	Aug 29, 08	Petrarch	12
The Greatest Leader of Our Time The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones. Mark Antony, in Shakespeare's Julius Ceasar The pages of history record many leaders great and small. There have been countless would-be leaders who couldn'...	Aug 27, 08	Petrarch	11
Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall Every four years, those on the extreme ends of the political spectrum complain that the two mainstream candidates and their parties are almost identical. Both support capitalism which irritates the Marxists; neither intends to seriously cut the size of ...	Aug 14, 08	Petrarch	1
Sitting Dems or Sitting Ducks? Devoted newshounds may recall the incident last November in which a deranged man held hostage the occupants of one of Hillary Clinton's campaign offices in New Hampshire. He threatened to blow them all up with a suicide vest. The "dynamite" was actuall...	Aug 14, 08	Hobbes	8
Liberal Blackmail We can no longer afford to build ourselves up by tearing each other down. We can no longer afford to traffic in lies or fear or hate. It is the poison that we must purge from our politics; the wall that we must tear down before the hour grows too late. ...	Aug 12, 08	Hobbes	11
Change for Its Own Sake Like most Americans, I carry a cellphone. This useful little gadget lets me reach out and touch others wherever I might be. More to the point, it lets others reach out and touch me, even when I'm on the go. As an emblem of the hectic, fast-paced moder...	Aug 8, 08	Petrarch	0
The All-Seeing Eye [On purchasing a selection of pulp tabloids] JAY: These are the hot sheets? KAY: Best investigative reporting on the planet. But go ahead, read the New York Times if you want. They get lucky sometimes. - Agents Jay and Kay, Men In Blac...	Aug 4, 08	Petrarch	2
Nothing Exceeds Like Excess Ever since there has been a conservative movement, conservatives have complained of liberal media bias. Over the years, these protest have become stronger and the counter-arguments weaker - ten years ago, CNN was commonly derided as the "Clinton News Ne...	Jul 28, 08	Petrarch	1
Black Voter Breakthrough? No matter who wins in November, the 2008 Presidential election will be historic. That's been apparent for a long time; since early this year, our next president could only be either the first black man, the first woman, or the oldest newly elected Ameri...	Jul 25, 08	Petrarch	1
The Definition of a Gaffe It's been said that a political gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. Never have we seen a clearer illustration of a classic gaffe than in Jesse Jackson's recent remarks on FOX News. He intended his remarks to be private, but his wo...	Jul 10, 08	Petrarch	7
Stupid Changes, Obama Style - Absentee Fathers Both the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune report that Mr. Obama has followed Bill Cosby's lead in calling on black fathers to be more responsible. Both papers pointed out that Mr. Cosby has been criticized by many black leaders for sa...	Jul 10, 08	Will Offensicht	7
Affirmative Action at the Crossroads Some time back, Scragged predicted that affirmative action might become a Presidential issue this year. In pointing out that Michelle Obama's feelings had been badly hurt by affirmative action at Princeton University, we speculated that, as Mr. Nixon wa...	Jul 4, 08	Will Offensicht	2
John McCain's Death Wish A devout man was once trapped in a flood on the roof of his house. He prayed that God would save him from the raging waters. Another man came by in a boat and offered to rescue the praying man. "No thanks!" he responded. "I'm praying for God to sav...	Jun 23, 08	Petrarch	5
Stupid Changes, Obama Style - Capital Gains Taxes A day in politics is like a year of normal life, they say; and never has this been proven more vividly than in this year's presidential race. Books could be filled (and doubtless will be) detailing all the bizarre upsets, reverses, surprises, untimely d...	Jun 17, 08	Petrarch	2
Scragged's Endorsement for President The home stretch of this never-ending presidential nominating process is fast upon us. Whether it's "official" now or later, the Democratic nominee is known, barring some miracle of political chicanery. Again barring a miracle, the Republican nominee h...	Jun 10, 08	Petrarch	12
A Pain in the Arson Reuters reports that an arsonist is causing widespread hate and discontent in Moscow. Media reports say a total of 27 cars -- from pricey Western sedans to Russian-made light trucks -- have been burnt in Moscow since the outbreak began on May 30. C...	Jun 10, 08	Will Offensicht	3
Hillary's Deal and Obama's Dilemma At long last - long, long last - it appears that Hillary Clinton has finally read the handwriting on the wall, heard the fat lady sing, seen the clock strike midnight, and had her coachmen turn back into the mice they always were. If news reports are to...	Jun 6, 08	Petrarch	5
No, We Can't! Americans are an optimistic nation. They like to think that things are getting better; that they have things better off than did their parents, and that their children will do better than they. Yes, there is the occasional bump in the road, but general...	May 30, 08	Petrarch	7
Dealt A Lemon? Make Lemonade! There's an old saying to the effect that when a true entrepreneur is dealt a lemon, he makes lemonade and sells it at a profit. We see this phenomenon at work in a Reuters article "Buy a car, get a free gun" which says: A Missouri car dealer said on Th...	May 27, 08	Will Offensicht	3
In The Tank With Obama Of the many fascinating and amusing things we've seen throughout the Best Presidential Primary Ever, not the least is the spectacle of Hillary Clinton writhing under the unaccustomed glare of bad publicity. After two decades of being able to count on th...	May 22, 08	Petrarch	1
Nothing to Say So Obama killed Hillary in Carolina, and she narrowly defeated him (in what might as well have been a loss) in Indiana. And yet she keeps going. For both parties, this primary season has been, without question, the most exciting and unpredictable p...	May 8, 08	Petrarch	0
Two Views of Race Relations Regardless of how the election turns out, Americans owe Mr. Obama a sincere vote of thanks for triggering a meaningful discussion of race relations in America. In his Philadelphia speech, Mr. Obama said: But the remarks [of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright...	May 6, 08	Will Offensicht	1
Green Jobs are Broken Windows The Investor's Business Daily reports from the campaign trail: Blue-collar burgs like Quakertown, Pa., are places where politicians usually talk about "fixing" trade deals, defending gun rights and taking care of veterans. Former President Clinton, s...	May 2, 08	Petrarch	6
The Wrongheaded Reverend Wright The media are reporting that Mr. Obama is outraged by his former pastor's remarks and that he is seeking to distance himself from them. In discussing Mr. Obama's reaction, Reuters described Rev. Wright's recent remarks at the National Press Club: As...	May 1, 08	Hobbes	2
My Friend the Terrorist In the most recent debate between Hillary and Obama, as they continue to be locked in mortal combat in what amounts to a dead tie, moderator George Stephanopoulos asked Barack the following question: A gentleman named William Ayers, he was part of the...	Apr 18, 08	Petrarch	6
Hillary Is Right But Nobody Cares According to various news reports: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's increasingly destructive nomination fight intensified yesterday amid allegations that the former First Lady was privately telling senior Democrats that her rival is unelectable. Af...	Apr 8, 08	Petrarch	1
Lies, Damned Lies, and Polls Mark Twain used to distinguish three categories of untruth - lies, damned lies, and statistics. Now we come to a new kind of lie - the poll. In an article "Clinton takes hit in new poll on White House race," Reuters reports: Democratic presidentia...	Mar 31, 08	Will Offensicht	1
The Door is That Way The American political scene has been preoccupied with a growing controversy over incendiary remarks made by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who happens to have been Mr. Barack Obama's spiritual mentor and his personal pastor for over twenty years. No doubt m...	Mar 21, 08	Hobbes	3
Words Versus Works To say that Mr. Obama is a magnificent orator is to say that the surface of the sun is a trifle warm. This is a good thing in a President. The day-to-day job of being President of the United States includes a lot of cheerleading. When Mr. Reagan took ...	Mar 19, 08	Will Offensicht	1
Racism, Obama Style Mr. Obama is far too smart to get specific about all the changes he wants to make and the media won't push him, so we're left guessing. One way to understand his views is to look at the people he hangs out with. Contrary to rumors floated by the Clin...	Mar 7, 08	Will Offensicht	18
Stupid Changes, Obama Style - Abortion Under the headline "Obama More Pro-Choice Than NARAL", Amanda Carpenter reported: In 2002, as an Illinois legislator, Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies that survived late-term abortions. That same ...	Mar 5, 08	Will Offensicht	3
Stupid Changes, Obama Style - Afghanistan From before he started his campaign for President, the mantra, theme, and repetitive refrain of Mr. Obama and his supporters has been the urgent and pressing, if not dire, need for "Change!" When Barack Obama says that the voters are calling for change,...	Mar 4, 08	Will Offensicht	3
Stupid Changes, Obama Style - Aid Mr. Obama's oratory has struck a chord with his calls for Change. He hasn't said much about specifics, but we get glimpses now and then. For example, he's sponsored legislation to cut global poverty in half by 2015: "Eliminating global poverty remai...	Mar 3, 08	Will Offensicht	3
Stupid Changes, Obama Style - Guns For some time now - at least the length of his campaign for President, if not longer - the mantra, theme, and repetitive refrain of Obama and his supporters has been the urgent and pressing, if not dire, need for "Change!" At first, of course, it was ...	Mar 3, 08	Petrarch	12
Michelle Obama, Victim of Affirmative Action The blogsphere has been discussing Mrs. Obama's senior thesis from Princeton university. The article Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide has links to the full text, and quotes her: "My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of m...	Feb 26, 08	Will Offensicht	4
Republicans Should Applaud Obama As Hillary and Obama continue to duke it out right up through the Democratic convention, neck-in-neck, fighting increasingly dirty (and for Hillary, that's saying something), many Republicans are seizing upon this one small ray of hope with glee. If Hil...	Feb 21, 08	Petrarch	5
Mrs. Obama - Closet Reaganite? The blogsphere and the media are utterly twitterpated to find that Mrs. Obama is suddenly proud of her country. She was misquoted a time or two, so it's worthwhile to put what she said in context: "What we've learned over this year is that hope is ma...	Feb 20, 08	Will Offensicht	1
Happy Valentine's Day, Barack Obama Over the past weekend, Michelle Obama, wife of Sen. Barack Obama, made an interesting statement. "What we've learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback and let me tell you something, for the first time in my...	Feb 20, 08	Hobbes	2
Hanging Chads at the Democratic Convention? Watching the Super Tuesday election results gave a strange feeling of deja vu. Remember "Indecision 2000", and the 2004 election which some networks actually called for Kerry, before realizing the opposite was true? Similarly, Hillary was first procla...	Feb 8, 08	Petrarch	2
Should College Kids "Have Their Candidate"? In politics, there are few more annoying things than campaign promises that go unfulfilled. Politicians get away with it because it usually takes several years before anyone figures it out. The feedback loop is too long. Occasionally, we see politician...	Feb 8, 08	Von Hayek	12
JFK's Tattered Teflon We've seen a lot of media comment about Ted Kennedy and many of his relatives comparing Mr. Obama to his older brother Jack and claiming that he, Teddy, is passing JFK's torch to the younger generation. Does Mr. Obama really want to be linked with JFK...	Feb 4, 08	Will Offensicht	2
Chappaquiddick Ted's Last Hurrah? Everyone's heard about Senator Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Mr. Barack Obama for President. Mr. Kennedy follows his niece in endorsing Mr. Obama rather than Hillary despite last minute pleading by the Clintonistas. This brings up an interesting questio...	Jan 29, 08	Will Offensicht	1
King Obama As we come to that time of year in which the American establishment honors the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it's always interesting to observe the doings of his putative heirs. This year, we see an especially interesting phenomenon: the viab...	Jan 21, 08	Hobbes	7
Tears of a Crook? Or a Croc? When the nation first heard of Hillary's victory in the Granite State, many wondered why the polls were dead accurate on the Republican side but were off by so much for the Democrats. The reason we have elections rather than just relying on polls is tha...	Jan 10, 08	Hobbes	11
Obama's $10 billion vs Microsoft's $0 I was given a document "Barack Obama's Plan for a Healthy America" which gives his ideas for improving health care. Section (3) Lowering Costs through Investment says: "Obama will invest $10 billion over the next five years to...	Oct 22, 07	Will Offensicht	5
Flagging Obama O say, does that star spangled banner yet waveO’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? "The Star-Spangled Banner" Francis Scott Key, 1814And indeed it does. Old Glory ...	Oct 11, 07	Petrarch	5
Obama Helping Business? Barack Obama's people joined my social network and asked, "How can government help small businesses?" The answer is obvious – government should do nothing to help any business, large or small. Businesses prosper by generating value for society. If a...	Sep 18, 07	Will Offensicht	5
Would you like a side of Communism with that? First, a preamble. Political writers often enjoy comparing their opponents to history's monsters whenever they can. This is because the end result speaks for itself. Assuming the comparison is well made, there is no need for further rebuke. The world ...	Aug 24, 07	Von Hayek	3
Love our enemies; bomb our friends When it comes to national defense, liberals are a peculiar bunch. Caught between their well funded, "no-borders" fringe and the practical choices offered by modern extremism, they're not entirely sure how to market a suitable strategy to the mainstr...	Aug 10, 07	Von Hayek	12

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All the articles that relate to "Barack Obama"

America Falls Out the Overton Window

Impeachment, High Crimes and Miss Kagan

Colin Powell's Revenge

Of Presidents, BP, and Kings

Honest Abe Spoke the Truth

Obama's Bogus Watergate

Obama Bites the Wealthy Hands that Feed Him

Mean Lies and Scam

A Little Humility, Please, Maestro Obama!

America the Ungovernable?

Obamacare and the Marquis de Sade

Our Cartoon-Physics President

Dr. King's Judgment

It's Your War Now, Mr. President!

Must Mr. Obama Flunk Foreign Affairs 1.01 Yet Again?

Obama + Climategate = Nixon?

Reagan Reincarnated in Oslo!

Time To Leave Afghanistan

Thank You, Mr. Obama!

Mr. Obama IS SO Stimulating The Economy!

Choking on Norwegian Nobel Kool-Aid

Olympic-Caliber Racism

Obama Steals Ron Paul's Isolationist Clothes

More "Racism," Please!

Two Little Words

Lies and Lying Liars

Healthcare Reform, or, Watch the Pea!

Affirmative Action In Heaven?

Left Turn to Treason 2

Left Turn to Treason 1

Of Truthers and Birthers

Teaching Moments with the President, the Policeman, and the Prof

Mr. Obama Speaks Truth to Power - In Africa

Kim Jong Il Can't Get No Respect

Obama's Revealing Iran Delay

Our First Thin-Skinned President

Spin, Lies, Politicians, and the Wisdom of Crowds

Barack Obama's Democrats Promote White Supremacy

Questions for America from Down Under

The CIA's Coming Revenge on Obama

Cuba: Next Stop on Obama's Global Apology Tour

Government Power and Obama's 40 Thieves

Is Aborting Black Kids' Education Stupid? Or Evil?

Our Black President Helping Blacks Would Help ALL Americans

Is Barack Obama Inexperienced, Unintelligent, or Both?

Bobby Jindal, Nixon, and Symbolism over Substance

The Wisdom of Professor Obama

Iran Is Right

Candidate Obama Stole My Job, President Obama Won't Give It Back

The President, First Cheerleader

I Support the President

Cut Obama Some Slack - Change Is Tough

Please Don't Shoot President Obama

The Last King Day

Obamanomics for Dummies

The Year of the Rookie

Lying Down with Swine

The Birth of The One

Hearts of Darkness

An Open Letter to Mr. Obama

Joe the Plumber and the Myth of Privacy

Thanks for Nothing?

As the World Turns - Against Obama

Hillary, the Great Right Hope

The Great Media Coup(s?)

This Racist Election

Obama Can Heal America. Will He?

Republicans' Future From Across the Pond

Must We Suffer The Obama Depression?

What's In a Name?

The Government We Deserve

Reaganism's Last Stand?

Barack Takes Chicago Politics Nationwide

Campaign-Finance Laws Murdered by Obama

Divine Right Strikes Again

More Mudslinging, Please!

Joe the Plumber and the Myth of Fairness

ACORN Stealing Democracy