By Larry Johnson on Dec 25, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Talking is one thing, but doing is another. Newt, fulfilling my low expectations, once again demonstrated why he is the quintessential Washington K-Street windbag. He failed to garner enough signatures to get on Virginia’s March primary and, in my view, it is all about Luke 14:28. For those who are not Christian or not familiar [...]
By Larry Johnson on Dec 23, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
The aphorism, “What’s Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander,” is coming home to us in spades in the so-called “war on terrorism.” After ten years of hysteria and hype, we have accepted the violation of human and constitutional rights as tolerable as long as the rationale for our illegal activity is justified [...]
By Larry Johnson on Dec 22, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
If you happened to watch any of the cable news shows breathless reporting today on the struggle on Capitol Hill to reach a budget deal, you would thing we came to precipice of a black hole. The lies, disinformation and self-deception are breathtaking and almost defy one’s ability to describe the actual import of this [...]
By Larry Johnson on Dec 21, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
* Bumped Up * Further evidence of the useless sacrfice of US blood and treasure in Iraq is emerging with each passing day. The latest political crisis continues to get worse, not better: Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq threatened on Wednesday to abandon an American-backed power sharing government created a year ago, throwing [...]
By Larry Johnson on Dec 19, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
* Bumped Up * I am a bit bemused by the wailing and gnashing of teeth surrounding the passing of Christopher Hitchens. I take no delight in his surrender to cancer (though the thought, “Karma is a bitch,” did cross my mind), but he was an insufferable pompous ass. Although touted by his clique as [...]
By Larry Johnson on Dec 18, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Remember all of the misty eyed liberals singing huzzahs over deposing Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and unleashing the power of the Egyptian masses? Well, look at this: The two women brutally beaten in this film clip are not Islamic radicals.
By Larry Johnson on Dec 16, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
In watching the Republican debates over the past five months a disturbing and alarming picture has emerged of a party paying lip service to the idea of conservatism while advocating and defending policies that are simply fascist. I realize this is hot-button language and certain to evoke a harsh reaction among some who embrace this [...]
By Larry Johnson on Dec 15, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Gotta give the girl her due–Ann Coulter knows how to gut a pig. I am referring to her savvy, potent evisceration of Newt Gingrich over the past couple of weeks. Coulter is normally not my cup of tea politically (too extreme for me), but she is witty and smart. Her latest salvo against Newt is [...]
By Larry Johnson on Dec 15, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
We’re bringing home the flag and the troops from Iraq and, sadly, the men and women who died or were maimed in Iraq made the sacrifice for nothing. Diehard conservatives and neocons want to insist we achieved a great victory by vanquishing Saddam Hussein. Yet, those same chuckleheads, almost in the same breath, issue new [...]
By Larry Johnson on Dec 14, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
* Bumped Up * The media, by and large, are a lazy, sloppy group. Many folks claiming to be “journalists” are not worthy of the title. A case in point is the bullshit report in the mainstream media regarding a televised Hezbollah piece describing what the mullahs believe the CIA is doing in Lebanon. Here [...]
By Larry Johnson on Dec 13, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
What the hell is wrong with the Washington Post critic, Hank Steuver? He lacerates Chelsea Clinton’s first appearance on Brian William’s Monday Night show, Rock Center. [W]hat was surprising to see on Monday night’s show is how someone can be on TV in such a prominent way and, in her big moment, display so very [...]
By Larry Johnson on Dec 11, 2011 in Electability, Federal Lobbyists | View Comments
There is no denying that Newt is an articulate, effective communicator. But, true to his Irish roots, he is full of the blarney. He is lucky that Mitt Romney and Ron Paul are an ineffective counterpunchers. Check out Newt’s defense of his consulting work with Freddie Mac: I suspect most of you did not catch [...]
By Larry Johnson on Dec 9, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
Well, I’m an equal opportunity bi-party offender tonight. I’ve said it before and Perry proved it again–that boy is dumb as a box of rocks. Watch these and cringe: video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Look if you are in charge of running the salad bar at Sizzler, I don’t expect you to be up to [...]
By Larry Johnson on Dec 9, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
It is one thing to misspeak. It is another thing to say something so totally false and ridiculous that it has no effect other than to evoke a primal scream. Per President Dim Bulb: As Obama called for passage of those bills, he also responded to a recent Republican push to require him to approve [...]
By Larry Johnson on Dec 8, 2011 in Current Affairs | View Comments
The fate of the world for the next decade rests on the shoulders of the representatives of European countries who meet starting Friday in Brussels, Belgium. Sounds overly dramatic? Nope. The odds are very slim that this “summit” or “conference” will produce a clear, substantive result that will reassure world markets that Europe is committed [...]
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