Patently Ridiculous

Vice President Dick Cheney now thinks he’s part of the Congress, after seven years wagging his (and others’) tail as semi-head of the executive branch. One must admit, he has conviction. Now, as a comic would introduce, all we need do is get a prosecutor to try him for his crimes. Joking aside, and America […]

A Man for No Season

In a cynical pre-entry into the 2008 Republican-party presidential-nomination race, Newt Gingrich wore hypocrisy like a laurel leaf crown. With typical conservative-republican pandering to the religious right—the lowest-common-values factor that now strangles the United States’ political, social, and cultural arenas—Mr. Gingrich offered up his soul for pontification to James Dobson’s “Focus on the Family” radio […]