When President Dwight Eisenhower gave his farewell speech to the American people on January 17, 1961 he laid out in less than 10 minutes a future uncannily similar to the government construct we live with today. His beware the “military industrial complex” paragraph gets the attention, but it is his lesser known warning that...
In ancient Rome the political class kept the masses in check (and their own heads attached to their shoulders) by giving out free grain and putting on regular Circus Maximus extravaganza’s to keep the people’s attention distracted from the factual misery that was their daily lives. Americans get the updated version once a year...
The Earth as we know it is burning itself into extinction, John Kerry pulls a French kiss-up worthy of the Onion award of the year, and the feminist of feminist accomplishments, the “Vagina Monologues” has now been cast aside as racist and exclusionary. Yep, it’s Friday and Tis that time once again when we...
We know Mark Twain’s “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes” and we’ve heard Winston Churchill’s “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Yet as Fred Shapiro notes in his “The Yale Book...
Liberal hypocrisy masquerading as thought bookends the Follies this week with some “our child President needs a booster seat for the Oval Office”, tax payer funded smut films, and illegals getting it better than citizens sandwiched in between for yet another: “Tis that time once again when we take stock of the inane and...
There were climate change lies on the Senate floor and Obamacare lies from the President himself. Add in the now all too familiar attack on the 1st and 2nd amendments by another public school system, the administration burning more bridges with the Egyptian military in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood, and a new report...