Tag Archives: Ted Cruz

If the Republicans in the Senate are as concerned as they claim to be over the increasing extremism in their party, says Elizabeth Warren, it’s within their power to do something about it

By Mark | March 10, 2016

Elizabeth Warren delivered an incredible speech yesterday on the floor of the Senate directed at the Republicans in that body who, while publicly bemoaning the fact that an extremist like Trump or Cruz is likely to win the nomination of their party, have done little over the past seven years to stop it from happening. […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged confirmation hearings, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, extremism, Obama, racism, Republican obstructionism, right-wing extremism, Senate, Supreme Court, Supreme Court nominee, threats to Democracy | 11 Comments

Reader Poll… what’s more likely?

By Mark | February 28, 2016

In an effort to get to know my readers better, I’ve decided that, on occasion, I will pose simple questions to this site, just to get a sense of what you’re like as a group. Here’s my first question. What’s more likely? For those of you who would like to read up on the evidence […]

Posted in Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged Jeff Meyers, JonBenét Ramsey, Katy Perry, polls, zodiac killer | 26 Comments

Could this impending battle over the Supreme Court tear our nation apart?

By Mark | February 14, 2016

I was thinking today about the little events that influence global politics, and all of our lives. Had Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s car not taken a wrong turn at the junction of Appel quay and Franzjosefstrasse in Serbia on that day in 1914, passing in front of a loitering 19-year-old Gavrila Principe, who just happened to […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged affirmative action, another famous person has died, Antonin Scalia, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Benjamin Studebaker, Bush v. Gore, Chuck Grassley, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, civil rights, Civil War, Elena Kagan, Gavrila Principe, get the money out of Washington, Judd Gregg, Lamar Alexander, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, money in politics, Obama, Olympia Snowe, Presidential politics, racism, recess appointments, Richard Lugar, Senate, separation of church and state, Supreme Court, Susan Collins, Voting Rights Act | 64 Comments

Is the government really coming for the guns of climate change deniers?

By Mark | January 26, 2016

Sometimes, on my way home from work, if I can’t find anything else on the radio, I listen to the ranting of WAAM’s Terry “Thayrone X” Hughes. This evening, I happened to tune in during a segment on Obama’s plans to confiscate the guns of America’s self-described “patriots” by exploiting new federal rules intended to […]

Posted in Civil Liberties | Also tagged AM 1600, Ayn Rand, background checks, Bacon, Cliven Bundy, Constitution worship, Gadsden flag, global climate change, Global Warming, global warming denial, gun confiscation, gun control, guns, homeschooling, mental illness, Obama, Obama is coming for our guns, paranoia, profiling, proud clinger, Terry Hughes, Thayrone X, thought crime, WAAM | 13 Comments

Republican Debate Open Thread

By Mark | August 6, 2015

Here, from beginning to end, are my notes in chronological order. Feel free to add your thoughts if you like, or correct me if you think I’ve said something that isn’t right… Cleary Fox doesn’t like Trump. They’re going after him right out of the gate, asking him if he’d run as an independent, which […]