Worst Little Town in America: Coburg, Oregon By Scott Rohter, February 2013 When I was a young man I traveled from Chicago to the Deep South. The year was 1971. I had just lost my job at the United States Post Office.. Yes in those days there actually was a United States Post Office!…
From the Mental Recession: Gird your loins for 2012, conservatives. A voter fraud case in upstate New York should serve as a reminder of what crooked politicians are willing to try during an election year. The election fraud in Troy grows ever larger… Via the Times Union: A grand jury investigating ballot fraud in a 2009…
You may think the Occupy Wall Street movement is fading away. You may think that colder weather and tougher local authorities will see “Occupy” crumble into nothingness. You may think it was all much ado about nothing. Well you may possibly be right, but the communist forces who have increasingly infiltrated the movement have a very different…
While many conservatives admire Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul’s principled economic and constitutional views, they are often bamboozled, even appalled, by the Texan’s defense and foreign policy ideas. Ron Paul It seems, that when it comes to defense, Ron Paul is stuck in 1776. He seems not to realize that America’s enemies, real or potential,…
By Alan Caruba Election years tend to create a level of frenzy concerning the selection of the nominees and the outcome. The media feed this in order to keep readers reading and viewers viewing. The history of American elections has always been one of vituperation between the parties, so there is nothing new about this.…
-By Warner Todd Huston When Howard Dean became a surprise front runner in the Democrat primary of 2004 doing so on the basis of a strong Internet-based campaign effort, tongues began to wag that the Internet might replace old fashioned retail politics. This time ’round Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich served to get people to…
For those of you who don’t know, Austin is a cesspool of good-old-boy, line-my-pockets, endorse-me, I-want-to-be-reelected, let’s-tax-and-spend politicians. This description fits most of the Republicans in our state legislature, which is why we call them RINOs (Republicans-in-name-only). How do you tell a RINO from a genuine conservative? RINOs run for office as conservatives, but govern from the…
By Alan Caruba In the movie, “Cool Hand Luke” the warden of a prison camp utters the now famous line, “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” The decision of the Democratic members of the Congressional Super Committee to refuse further discussion of revenue issues is a failure to negotiate. I have a…
By Alan Caruba In bad times, anti-Semitism seems to crawl out of the sewers like a repugnant odor. It is not subject to a rational response. It is pure emotion and a very nasty one at that. Lately we got a whiff of it at some of the Occupy protests. On November 3rd, the Anti-Defamation…
Promises, Promises: The Reality of Campaign Speak
As the campaign cycle progresses we are going to hear a lot about what one candidate or another is going to do about this or that. We will, to the point of weariness, be inundated with campaign promise after campaign promise, albeit, between gratuitous attacks, both political and personal. This is politicking and the American…
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