So - based largely on the deplorable record of a Republican who was not a conservative, a Democrat becomes President while running on a slogan of "change" - while not proposing one single new idea that hasn't been hashed and rehashed by liberal Dems since FDR. Not one ( Read more... )

1) I am a small-l libertarian. I oppose most of the policies of both major parties, and I tend to be personally conservative and politically laissez-faire. I think, in short, that the Republicans are hypocrites and the Democrats are criminals. Or is that the other way around? People who espouse the specific policies of one or the other major ( Read more... )

Originally, we didn't live in a representative democracy. The Founders were scared shitless of a democracy ("rule by mob") because of its propensity to do exactly what it's done in this country: allow a small majority of people to cram their own pet ideas down the throats of the rest of us. Conservatives want to legislate their lame idea of sex, ( Read more... )

Apparently a building in NYC has been struck by an aircraft, possibly a helicopter. Why the weird stuff jumps out at me in these kinds of articles, I don't know, but file this one under, "Uh, duh."

Fire Department spokeswoman Emily Rahimi said an aircraft struck struck the 20th floor of a building on East 72nd Street. Witnesses said the crash ( Read more... )