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Kagan and the End of the Military

So, Barack Hussein Obama has his second opportunity for a Supreme Court pick, and he has nominated Elena Kagan. On the face of things - and, yikes, what a face! - Ms. Kagan is as personally undistinguished for any particularly outstanding evil character...		 May 14, 10 Petrarch 0 1

Our Debauched Electorate 1

 As far back as we can recall, every election brings grousing that the two parties are equally corrupt and generally pretty much the same, offering only choices between Lousy and Lousier. We've made the same complaint ourselves. That is not likely to...		 Apr 5, 10 Petrarch 0 7

The Texas Schoolbook Victory

While most of American conservatism is consumed over the life-or-death struggle against Obamacare this week, it's worth taking note of a major victory elsewhere which might, in the long run, prove to be even more important. The Dallas Morning News tartl...		 Mar 17, 10 Petrarch 0 27

How To Lie with Poverty Statistics

There are two clocks ticking down the remaining days of the Obama administration and his Democratic hegemony. One is the ever-growing unemployment rate, now standing at about 10% "officially" and nearly twice that when you include the underemployed and ...		 Mar 15, 10 Petrarch 0 4

Men, Women, Marriage, and Not Growing Up 4

This series has explored many reasons why a modern man would rather not grow up in the sense of taking care of a woman and helping her raise their children, and how this societal immaturity is reflected in modern Western politics. A major political f...		 Mar 3, 10 Lee Tydings 0 9

Men, Women, Marriage, and Not Growing Up 2

The first article in this series discussed a major reason so many marriages are failing - many modern men would rather not grow up. A man has to grow up in order to take on the obligations and responsibilities of marriage. Modern society has taken away...		 Feb 22, 10 Lee Tydings 0 2

Is Your Money Yours? Or The Government's?

We at Scragged have decided that liberals really don't have any overriding principles except one - they know better than you, and want government to get bigger and bigger in order to help them enforce What's Best for You whether you like it or not. It d...		 Feb 5, 10 Will Offensicht 0 2

Winning: Not The Same Thing as Not Losing

For the last couple weeks, Republican jubilation has been building in force. Scott Brown took over Ted Kennedy's Senate seat! Obamacare went down to crushing and ignominious defeat! Obama didn't seem to notice either of these disasters and, in his Sta...		 Feb 4, 10 Petrarch 0 4

Survival of the Fittest - How Liberals Are Killing Themselves Off

Today I was confronted once again by what Ann Coulter calls “the Austrian efficiency of DMV.” She uses that line in several articles, so like me, she’s ticked. The somewhat raspy-voiced female on the other end of the line told me to “call back in 72 hou...		 Nov 23, 09 Benjamin Caliban 0 2

The Bubble Zone – A Happy Place for Liberals

During the early years of American history, Benjamin Franklin remarked that our nation is a republic “if you can keep it.” His statement seems to imply a rueful understanding of the danger that underlies our system: it’s all well and good, until someone...		 Nov 3, 09 Benjamin Caliban 0 4

The End of American Politics

 For several years now, our elites have been complaining about the death of civility in our national political discourse. In the past half-decade, we've seen movies made and articles written fantasizing about our President being assassinated; conspiracy...		 Oct 15, 09 Petrarch 0 2

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 0 8

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 0 1

First Amendment, First to Go

 Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech. - First Amendment of the United States Constitution DHS/I&A assesses that lone wolves and small terrorist cells embracing violent rightwing extremist ideology are the most dangero...		 Apr 28, 09 Petrarch 0 2

Government Failure? Or Hidden Success?

Americans - indeed, most people across the world - are so inured to government failure and waste that yet another example is hardly news. Bridge to Nowhere? Mafia Museum? $1,000 toilet seats? Been there, done that, threw the T-shirt away, but it keep...		 Apr 2, 09 Hobbes 0 1

Why Liberals Block Drug Legalization

It has been a long time since voters expected our leaders to obey our drug laws. Bill Clinton admitted marijuana use - but only overseas where U.S. law didn't extend, and of course, he "didn't inhale." George W. Bush had no such fig leaf; it's generall...		 Mar 30, 09 Petrarch 0 3

Does "Republican" Mean "F**k You?"

Editor's Note: This article does not conform to our usually cultured editorial standards; however, it makes a necessary point in response to repeated and recurring liberal attacks. The reader stands warned of unseemly vulgarity within. We at Scragged...		 Feb 16, 09 Will Offensicht 0 9

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 0

Silicon Valley Dies Like The Massachusetts Miracle

 We've now elected a government made up mostly of political liberals. The left will shortly have control of the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and in due time thanks to the power of appointment, the judiciary as well. Having bee...		 Nov 19, 08 Will Offensicht 0 5

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 0 3

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 0 6

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 0 1

Exploding Heads on the Left

One of the more amusing hallmarks of Barack Obama's candidacy has been the abruptness and alacrity with which he reverses positions. From school vouchers, to the virtues of a trip to Iraq, through the purpose and appropriate level of taxation, and even ...		 Sep 4, 08 Hobbes 0 2

Labor Going Out Of Style

 Back in August 2007, it was clear that health care would be a Presidential issue. Scragged published "The Only Health Care Question" to remind everyone that any health care system must include some way to limit demand. There are limits to the amount o...		 Sep 1, 08 Will Offensicht 0 8

Loony Left Liberals See a Little Light

Scragged often points out the wrong-headedness of liberal media. We've criticized the New York Times for urging the Colombian government to take the FARC drug dealers into the Colombian government, for example. Our main issue with the liberal left ha...		 Aug 25, 08 Will Offensicht 0 1

Liberal Jujitsu to Break Freedom's Back

 One of the more gratifying aspects to this year's Best Election Ever has been watching the mainstream media pull out all the stops to anoint their Chosen One. From shivers up the leg, to carrying the Obamessiah around Europe on the backs of all three n...		 Aug 18, 08 Will Offensicht 0 4

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 0 11

Bust-Up Over Caveat Emptor

 We at Scragged welcome (well, hope for, actually!) responses from readers and have been blessed with generally high-quality comments. Rare indeed is the foul-mouthed flame who must be deleted or edited. As the purpose of Scragged is to get people to t...		 Jul 8, 08 Petrarch 0 10

Those Lying Liberals

 Modern sociologists use the methodology of polls to learn more about how people think. They apparently have learned something very interesting: liberals are liars. The National Cultural Values Survey asked a large sampling of Americans various quest...		 Jun 9, 08 Petrarch 0 8