Author: CrapIsKing

News from the Graveyard of Empires

“General David Petraeus, on a trip to Germany, refused to confirm directly a New York Times report, but said there had long been doubts about one alleged Taliban peace overture towards the Afghan government. “There...

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American Fascism

I posted this yesterday in response to Booman’s question as to whether or not we were dealing with a rational force in the modern-day Republican Party: “One of the signs that much of our current Republican Party is...

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A Modest Messaging Proposal

Nearly everyone agrees that Democrats are awful at messaging. But we are blessed with the lowest collection of kooks, crooks and morons ever assembled under a single party banner as our opposition this cycle and that cold fact...

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Eisenhower Republicans and FDR Democrats

Run it back the other way: after Republicans impeached Clinton over a blowjob and had the Supreme Court steal an election – and then swung much farther to the irrational right – it could not have been possible for...

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