Politics
- Written by: Eric J. Kiser
- Category: Politics
UNCLE SAM
Uncle Sam (born July 4, 1776) is the national personification of the United States, an economic and cultural imperialist, the mascot of the New York Yankees, frequent used car salesman, and a dick.
- Written by: Eric J. Kiser
- Category: Politics
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the Incorporated States of America and to the Special Interest for which it stands; One trans-national corporation, under subpoena and lobbying hard, with Liberty and Justice for Sale."
~ Revised to reflect new reality after the Citizen's United v. F.E.C. decision
- Written by: Eric J. Kiser
- Category: Politics
"There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."
- Written by: Eric J. Kiser
- Category: Politics
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter."
- Written by: Eric J. Kiser
- Category: Politics
Our government, more accurately society as a whole, spends too much energy trying to be responsive to the trivial issues of the day. Often this is done at the expense of more important concerns that we know we cannot afford to lose sight of.
Politicians engage in spin control and 'horse race' tactics while they are quietly influenced by special interests to subtly pass legislation. Legislation that extends government into areas of our private lives in which no government has any business ever getting involved. This is done for reasons that are not clearly presented to the public, or worse, reasoning that is falsely provided as means to achieve an agenda -- so called 'wedge issues'. Nothing more than Weapons of Mass Distractions. This type of politics has been going on for decades. And it needs to stop.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
After the Republican presidential debate flare-up between Donald Trump and his Fox News inquisitor Megan Kelly, he was being interviewed by CNN's Don Lemon. Trump described Megan Kelly's debate-host mood as seeming to have blood coming out of her eyes. Then, either Trump-wittingly or not, he added, and maybe somewhere else. (Sound the alarm – another earthquake, tsunami, twister!) And so it was.
- Written by: Curtis W. Long
- Category: Politics
Trapped on a stage,
My questions, kept simple with only a yes/no answer requested & required:
1. Do you accept the scientific estimate of the earth's age?
Dylann Storm Roof was no lone wolf.
He has millions of co-conspirators and accomplices. They fall in to three types: those active before, during and after the fact. This is not a discussion of legal culpability, but of moral shame.
