In the old days the NRA did their job by emphasizing hunting and gun safety, but I guess that didn’t sell enough units for their constituency–gun manufacturers

Most Americans don’t realize that the right wing’s main ideas have been pushed for 50 years by the John Birch Society (JBS), a group Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley Jr. once thought too extreme, but which has since become the intellectual seed bank of the right.

Don’t blame Standard & Poor’s for last week’s brutal stock market; S&P may have downgraded America’s credit, but all it did was say the emperor has no clothes — no news if you watched the GOP’s shenanigans over the debt ceiling.

Whimsical ephemera, profound insights, and complete balderdash.