national politics - Texas Outlaw Writers (Page 9)

POLITICS WEARING YOU OUT? YOU’RE NOT ALONE

When I watch Boebert and Cortez, I’m reminded of something Churchill once said of US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, “He is the only bull who brings his own china shop with him.”

national politics

Honey, If Tucker's Looking Quizzical, I'm Worried

Throughout our history, we alternate between greatness and shamefulness. Slavery, and then the war to end it. Emancipation, and then Jim Crow. The Indian wars and, well casinos, I guess.

Guns

To See, Or Not To See

The government controls what we see, and we have let them, which is foolish in the extreme. Because we are now met in a battle on our own soil, except it is not a war, it’s the slaughter of our children.

national politics

Carville to Dems: You're Too Soft and Too Woke

The Cajun Mantis strikes again

Guns

Random Thoughts About Gun Love

What happens when you mix the killing efficiency of a military-style weapon with our usual racial hatred? Look to the recent mass murder in Buffalo.

national politics

Has the Electoral College Overstayed Its Welcome?

I’m not built to embrace voter apathy, but I increasingly understand it. When a person can be elected president while losing the popular vote, who wouldn’t lose faith in the system?

Supreme Court

Dobbs overrules Roe: Welcome to a new America

No American woman under 50 has lived in a country where her choice to have an abortion was not constitutionally-protected. That may all change this summer with the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. And that may be only the beginning.

national politics

There Oughta be a Law Against Unjust Laws

There is something fundamentally wrong about giving any human being a job for life. Every paid human should be subjected to performance reviews ... Maybe the guaranteed gig has made our Court less Supreme.

Health Care

Doc, It Hurts When I Do This. Well, Don't Do That. That'll Be $200.

Is health care a national right, like education, police and fire protection? Should life and death depend on income? Why are we so bad at this?

national politics

Dog, The Money Hunter...Well, OK, Dope and Sex, Too

It's going to be an issue in any upcoming Presidential campaign, whether we like it or not. So, Roger Gray weighs in on the Hunter Biden laptop and is shocked, shocked to find a famous kid is trading on the family fame. What in the name of Javanka is going on here?

national politics

American Coup

How is it not obvious to even the least aware and lowest intellect that the Republicans are manufacturing nonsense to distract you while they loot the government and line their pockets and further enrich their wealthy supporters?

national politics

Broken

"The same government that had created policies to provide me resources to attend college and get an education was about to send me off to die in a rich man’s war."

national politics

Thank You Senator...Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV.

The hearings this week for Judge Ketangi Brown Jackson caught Roger Gray's eye. How could they not, with Ted Cruz musing about becoming Asian. His thesis? Why are we even going through this.

national politics

But Will He Be Happy With a ’69 Beetle for Graduation?

Social media is chock full of complaints about the price of petrol lately. When it comes to the reasons why, the answers are enough to make Alex Trebek roll over in his grave.

national politics

With All Due Respect to Presidential Races, It’s Not Just About You

One sign of a democracy in danger of losing its freedom is low voter turnout.

Ukraine

You Can't Fight in Here! This is the War Room!

So, you are Biden, Johnson, Macron or Scholz. "How far do you push this? There has been speculation over the years about whether Europe and America would have acted if Hitler had confined his evil to the borders of Germany. What do we risk in Ukraine?"

Ukraine

A Kingdom of Dirt

As the West scrambles to find a way to mitigate the ruthless conquest of Ukraine, the suppressed fears of a nuclear war return. The nightmare seems more vivid than before.

War

The Patriot’s Dream

War’s twin casualties, people and the truth....

national politics

No Toto. It Looks Like We Actually Are Right Back In Kansas Again

As we survey the political landscape, which looks more and more like the aftermath of Antietam, it’s hard not to feel some déjà vu. Are we so uncreative that we have to recycle even political fights?

cancel culture

Cancel Culture - Love it or Leave it

Three little words have become the common currency of political debate, and as such, are now as relevant as double-knit slacks. The words are "woke" and "cancel culture."

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LOOK, MOM! UNCLE LEW GAVE ME A GAME OF ILLUMINATI SCRABBLE FOR CHRISTMAS!

If they hated the emigres from the Emerald Isle, imagine Jews and Italians? There were rumors of priests and nuns strangling babies (sound familiar?), and they even got a President out of it. But deservedly, it was Millard Fillmore, the Major Frank Burns of chief executives.

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What Joe Knows

There is no one in America who has a bigger marketing problem than President Biden. Either he is too busy worrying about getting things done and dealing with issues, or he does not care enough about reelection to get the message out regarding his accomplishments.

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