The election of 2010 seemed to herald the awakening of a sleeping giant as Tea Party and conservative republican voters were elected in historically high numbers. The presidential election of this year, on the other hand, seems to indicate that...
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Cliff Diving
In a verbal foible that would rival W's best, President Obama referred to himself as a "hopeless optimist" in his bon voyage speech on the impending fiscal cliff. This coming on the heels of John Boehner's failed attempt...
The Psychology of Mythology (There Are No Tigers Here)
A disheveled older man sat on a New York City bus clutching a single page of newspaper that looked as though it had been retrieved from the trash. Periodically he would tear off a tiny piece and release it out the...
Eating The Golden Goose
In much the same way that Thomas Paine's writings were an inspiration for the American Revolution, the philosophy of Jean Jacques Rousseau served as inspiration for the French one. It is Rousseau from which the anarchist maxim of "Eat The...
Shaking, Quaking, and Oathbreaking
Luminaries such as Charles Krauthammer and Rush Limbaugh have suggested the possibility of Republicans responding to the looming "Fiscal Cliff" by taking a page out of Barack Obama's playbook and simply voting "present" to whatever the President...