After you’ve read this article, Burt hopes you’ll also enjoy The Geek Chorus. I was wondering how long it would take Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to take the blame for the murder of Ambassador Stevens and the other three Americans at the Libyan consulate. After the ensuing brouhaha promised to hurt Obama’s chances in…
Tag Archive: Paul Ryan
No Winner in the Debate — But Maybe a Loser
I have this funny feeling that just about nobody will remember very much about what they heard during the vice presidential debate, but they’ll remember what they saw. First, on substance, there was no clear winner (though Vice President Biden’s assertion that the Obama administration wasn’t told about requests for more security in Libya before…
Spanking Liberals
Burt hopes you’ll enjoy this article, and after you’re done, he hopes you’ll enjoy this bonus article torn from the headlines, Warning: Liberals on the Loose. -ed I thought it was hilarious when Barack Obama took Mitt Romney to task for only disclosing two years of tax returns. He said, “When you run for president,…
Newsweek Finally Makes News
Burt hopes you’ll enjoy this article, and after you’re done, he hopes you’ll also enjoy this bonus article: A Summing Up. Even though Niall Ferguson, a Republican who served as an advisor to John McCain in 2008, wrote the cover story for Newsweek titled “Hit the Road, Barack,” it is the first notable sign that…
Why My Head Is Spinning
I understand why liberals want to get elected to political office. After all, not everyone can be a millionaire, but at least if you’re elected to Congress, you get to live like one. You get to receive all sorts of perks, including a bevy of aides and interns whom you don’t have to pay out…
Post-Convention Musings
Although, as a rule, I try to avoid spending too much time listening to political speeches, I must confess that I was pleasantly surprised by a number of those delivered in Tampa. It wasn’t simply that they were saying many of the things that I had been writing for the past four years. It was…
Bill O’Reilly, You’re Wrong…
Recently, Bill O’Reilly commented on the gaffe by Vice President Biden who told an audience in Virginia that the Republicans want to put “y’all back in chains” and the ad which showed a Paul Ryan look-alike throwing a grandma off a cliff. In both cases, Bill concluded that no one, regardless of their extreme ideology, could believe Republicans want…
The Sad Self-Importance of Rage Against the Machine
Conservatives like myself have long understood that people in the entertainment industry tend to subscribe to a different political view than we do. There’s certainly nothing wrong with that. It shouldn’t really matter whether or not we identify with the personal beliefs of those who entertain us. We go to their movies, watch their television…