Chris Rock's Quote of the Year "You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance,  Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon' "

Though I’m not particularly fond of linguistic purity insisting on language correctness extended to gender structure, I do advocate that we gentlemen of letters should make every effort to use “his/her” and “persons.” I trust the ladies of letters will not find this patronizing or inverse chauvinism.

I would rethink my preference for Bush, Commander in Chief, who wishes to stay the course because he is loath to acknowledge the serious blunder of his preëmptive war and particularly in rallying the populace round the flag of deception. I should have suspected the ken of a prodigal son who defies his own father’s sagacity in favor of lionizing a surrogate father who, in eliminating all candidates for the Vice Presidency, chose himself. I would reflect on my decision to choose a can...

    The liberal reward of labour, as it is the effect of increasing wealth , so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of it is to lament over the necessary effect and cause of the greatest prosperity. — Adam Smith There are those who simplistically perceive taxation as confiscatory; what they do not as a rule perceive is that the growth of capital is the direct result of the expropriation of labor. Capital branches off from the rivers of labor: th...

Labor and Capital no longer are at odds thanks to the influence of Reaganomics on the “right to work” movement in the 80s to shatter, unions, making it possible for even union members not to have to pay their dues, let alone those with a right not to join and yet reap the benefits of the organized. This conservative strategy to bust or limit unions began in the 60s by the non-industrial states, tempting capital to invest in large chunks of the nation where labor was cheap. Now the strat...

If the Religious Right and Neo-Catholicism become the ruling party thereby canonizing all the Republican Presidents of the United States, will all saintly images be effaced from history books and cartoons and pictures of the contemporary presidents be off limits? Or— even worse — will each of the canonized be depicted with beards, halos and biblical robes bestowing blessings upon the worshiping majority while wreaking vengeance on the infidels of the soul-less minority? Subsequently, will the C...

What else can be said concerning events without echoing the same unseemly comments? We know the need for many is health care but a national solution we do not dare. Outsourcing most moguls blatantly agree, ignoring its deadly consequence abysmally: What soldier sent to another chosen area would want his rifle made in China?   Lest Cheney be denied the upper fold It’s better for useful news to go untold.   Copyright © 2006 Ri...

CAMBRIDGE, Md. - The eavesdropping tables were turned on President Bush on Friday. The president apparently believed he was speaking privately when he talked about listening in without a warrant on domestic communications with suspected al-Qaida terrorists overseas. But reporters were the ones doing the listening in this time. However, the microphones stayed on for a few minutes. That allowed journalists back at the White House to eavesdrop on Bush's defense of the eavesdropping. His priva...

We need to change the perception of extremists that abortion is murder. If it were the case then performing doctors, midwives, and the men and women involved should be subject to life imprisonment or death in states where there is the death penalty. This kind of harsh justice — even minimal jail sentencing — obviously is not going to become reality, not even the pro-life wing would suggest it. Consequently the perception should be that women at a given time inclined to abort should be extended...

The conservative in his white shirt, tie and pinstripes frowns on the unruly laborer who spitefully strikes. Then he sniffs the rose in his lapel, waiting for messages on his Dell, to tell him a so-called living wage is but the lazy’s jealous rage.

What waitress, pole-dancer or manicurist doesn’t love a fat cat?  — Like the lobbyist is the orgasm of the bureaucrat.  

Bush: "There is a marketplace in American society," he said. "There's also a responsibility for energy companies to continue to invest and improve the ways that the American people can get energy," he said. "I would very much hope that Exxon would participate in the development of a pipeline out of Alaska, for example, in order to make sure there's more natural gas available for families and small business owners so the economy will grow." Why simply hope that businesses will do the r...

As with virtually all good intentions gone awry, the liberal perspective on the environment has taken a bad turn dwelling on minutia or failing to think through the consequences of some of its positions. For instance, coal is in abundance that could well serve our energy needs for hundreds of years. Instead of condemning this asset, environmentalist should try to compromise by stubbornly urging technological research in how to improve the advances already made in keeping coal's damage to the env...

A common belief among conservatives is that liberals lean to confiscating through progressive taxation wealth among the upper class in order to lift the boat of poverty. The right argues that by lifting the yachts, the other boats will rise, too. To some degree it is true but it is only a targeted, limited lift. If you work the gambling tables, make the beds, wait at tables, cook in the elaborate kitchens at Las Vegas you minimally benefit from the happy-go-lucky rich. If you are a yacht builder...

Only a handful of politician on the left are advocating immediate and total withdrawal from Iraq. They are more interested in a clear timetable that will send a message to the insurgents that we are calling their bluff if we no longer "stay the course" insurgency will end. In the meantime, most troops should be deployed to the borders of Syria and Iran to prevent further incursions of Al Qaeda. If this move has a favorable effect, the timetable would begin the attrition. If the first stage does ...