Days after the first 2008 primary contest in Iowa, only two things are clear. One of the following five men will be the Republican nominee for 2008 and nobody knows which one.
Mike Huckabee - Mitt Romney - Fred Thompson - John McCain - Rudy Giuliani
No matter how we feel about any of these five men, […]
Barack Obama’s win on Thursday was historic. It was not just another political event. It pierced our culture on a thousand levels; such a radical blow to conventional wisdom comes along once in a century. It happened when Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to a door in Wittenberg. It happened again when the Boston […]
-By Warner Todd Huston
Want some old fashioned black helicopter, conspiracy goofiness? Check out the frenzied work of HufPoster Joseph Palmero who imagines that if Obama becomes president members of Blackwater security services or Haliburton would somehow decide to assassinate him. After reading his wild-eyed musings, one wonders if the foam from his mouth short circuited […]
For some strange reason; I’m not sure why, I was asked a question about Barack Obama’s victory in the Iowa Caucuses. The question was racial in nature, regarding a statement made by an Iowa participant….
“And Obama? Quite bluntly, the way the Democrats are treating him is insulting: They’re trotting him around like a talking panda: […]
In 1973 the Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade was decided, having the effect of forcing states to allow abortions for any reason. The majority opinion by abortion advocate Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun was shocking and constitutionally vague. Later it was found that on the side of “Roe” the lawyers, plaintiff and witnesses […]
Election 2008 brings to my mind a poem of Robert Frost’s. “Some say the world will end in fire,” says the poem, but “some say in ice.” The images conjure up graphic manifestations of two intangible vices – desire and hate, respectively. Will the Republicans nominate a candidate out of hate, someone who represents few […]
One could comfortably assume that once Iowa rolls up its sidewalks, we can go back to ignoring it for another four years. Regretfully, however, the closer we come to continuous election cycles, the closer we come to All Iowa, All the Time; the next crop of malcontents will start drifting in two years from now, […]
