Why I Love My President
I don’t remember President Eisenhower, although he was President for the first five years of my life, but oh how I remember My President. I remember vividly. My family didn’t like the Kennedys and...
View ArticleNeil Gaiman, Matt Dean (R-MN), and the Legacy Fund
OK, first of all, before anyone asks me what I'm talking about, here's a link to Neil Gaiman's blog post relating the entire situation in gory detail. Read up and come on back.
View ArticleVariations on a Theme by Herrington
Global finance, as it is practiced today, appears to me to be little more than a legalized Ponzi scheme directed not by a single ruthless mastermind like Bernie Madoff, or even the fabled Ponzi...
View ArticleHow an Authoritarian Regime Operates: Why the the Arab Spring Protesters are...
I think it can be quite difficult for those of us who've never lived under an authoritarian government to understand what that's like. We can talk about the sense of control and limitations that are...
View ArticleDon't Let Bin Laden Have the Last Laugh. Get Our Troops and Our Tax Dollars...
Osama Bin Laden is dead. Al Qaeda is no longer in Afghanistan in any significant numbers. While the Afghanistan War long ago lost a strategic rationale supported by actual outcomes on the ground...
View ArticleMy Little Town 20110504: Francis Worthen
Those of you that read this regular series know that I am from Hackett, Arkansas, just a mile of so from the Oklahoma border, and just about 10 miles south of the Arkansas River. It was a redneck...
View ArticleObama is the baddest ass I've ever seen in action.
Months of secret planning to find and kill Osama and not for a moment did Obama even hint what he was doing. Even on the eve of the raid, while he was deciding whether to bomb or send in a seal team,...
View ArticleJust how painful is out there economically?
We see the bad economic numbers almost daily but what does it really mean for the Main Street? How has the recession and decreased employment really impacted our fellow Americans? How many people...
View ArticleBin Laden Photos - Release or Not? An Exercise
There's a debate going on about whether or not photos should be released showing the body of Osama Bin Laden. Latest word from the White House is no. Kevin Drum says yes. I don't have an answer -...
View ArticleWhy I am confident that the order was to CAPTURE or kill.
Because nothing else makes sense. In a comment earlier today I was linked to an article claiming that Osama was not shot in the heat of the moment - he was handcuffed and then executed in front of his...
View ArticleThe website I absolutely dread clicking on
that would be Climate Progress, because you get headlines like this - Arctic Assessment bombshell: “Global sea level is projected to rise by 0.9–1.6 meter by 2100″ Quite regularly Climate Progress...
View ArticleWho's the Vilest officeholder?
Recent TV appearences by Peter King, where he was enthusiastic about the use of torture, turned my stomach. He's a monster, but is he the 'worst'? I thought I'd hold a survey of current officeholders,...
View ArticleWhen In Trouble, Or In Drought...Flood The Streets
I'm sure some of my dear and otherwise enterprising and beloved Kossack engineer friends here can explain why this is necessary, but down here in SE New Mexico, we are in a state of extreme drought,...
View ArticleBreaking: Man Wanted In Mosque Bombing Dies In Shootout With FBI
This happened at 2:30 approximately central time here in Oklahoma, according to the Enid News. Did this individual flee Florida due to knowledge of the warrant on Monday, or was it a reaction to the...
View ArticleNina Simone: Powerful Blues Singer and Civil Rights Advocate
Music and activism have always gone together. And the Civil Rights era is a perfect example of this. Sometimes I get into a particular musician or song and highlight it and its political...
View ArticleSweet Songs - Songs about candy
Tonight, as I sit here with a sweet tooth, I thought of a collection of songs that have to deal with sugar, or candy.... and a diary idea was born. What is your favorite sugar-type song? Which ones...
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Top Comments (05-04-2011): Murdoch’s HarperCollins Destroys Library Lending...
T O P C O M M E N T S Top Comments can be found around these parts every evening at 10:00pm ET. So, if you discovered some funny, erudite or informative comments that you want to share with more...
View ArticleGus it's almost 10 weeks
Hello my friends at GUS .. I am still not smoking. I am here to say that it gets easier even though certain times the urge is strong, it dissipates after a bit, crawls back into it's hole and waits...
View ArticleCheck out Tom Morello's new hit
I know many Kossacks have already enjoyed this great song. For those who haven't yet had the chance, you're in for a treat!!
View ArticleAye we can! The Case for Scottish Independence
A recent diary about Scottish Independence needs a response, and needs one tonight. He makes a number of good points, but it's important to set the record straight. I thank the Diarist for a frank and...
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