Getting Better All The Time
The British statesman Leonard Henry Courtney noted in 1895,
“…After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, ‘Lies–damned lies–and statistics,’ still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of.”
Several years later, in his […]
Choose Your Poison
As the great man himself, Ronald Wilson Reagan, would say, “There you go again.”
When he was finally called upon to appoint someone to head the bi-partisan investigation of the events surrounding September 11, 2001, George W. Bush’s first instinct was to name the notorious war criminal Henry Kissinger to the position. Despite Mr. Kissinger’s […]
A Fade To The Finish
When I was a sophomore in college, a friend of mine’s father came to town to watch a horse he owned run in the Louisiana Derby. It was an exciting week. We got full privileges at the racetrack and spent lots of time hanging around the paddock with Dr. K and his horse […]
The Horror, The Horror
America no longer has a Bible Belt.
The sea of Red washing over the vast heartland on the map of the world’s bloated superpower indicates she is dressed now in Bible Bib-Overalls.
How else to explain Tuesday’s election?
Millions of the nation’s average, regular bargain shoppers seem to have voted against their economic self interest, against […]