The latest conservative outcry about contraception led by the CBMH (Catholic Bishopian Male Hierarchy) isn't really about contraception or abortion for that matter except it logically, sensibly reduces it, nor is this about religious freedom v. government.  Again, it's a time for some general ob… Read full post »

If you give a tinker's damn about less fortunate fellow Americans, you have to be distressed at the spectacularly cynical circus that displays the clowns in the official Republican primary process: none, not even one, is fit to be president of the United States of America...period.

 Never h… Read full post »

Republican primary presidential contender, Mitt Romney, self-described himself perfectly in the last presidential debate.  When confronted by fellow contender and swaggering Texan, Rick Perry, about his hiring of 'illegal immigrants' (sic) to 'mow his lawn' (more like manicure his massive estate… Read full post »

COUNTRY BOY

The cab ride was noisiest and hottest over the massive silver bridge from his suburban motel room into the heart of downtown. For him it seemed like racing off a lazy Appalachian mountain road back home and onto a clogged, tarry smelling big city street with endless rows… Read full post »

COUNTRY BOY

The cab ride was noisiest and hottest over the massive silver bridge from his suburban motel room into the heart of downtown. For him it seemed like racing off a lazy Appalachian mountain road back home and onto a clogged, tarry smelling big city street with endless rows… Read full post »

COUNTRY BOY

The cab ride was noisiest and hottest over the massive silver bridge from his suburban motel room into the heart of downtown. For him it seemed like racing off a lazy Appalachian mountain road back home and onto a clogged, tarry smelling big city street with endless rows… Read full post »

COUNTRY BOY

The cab ride was noisiest and hottest over the massive silver bridge from his suburban motel room into the heart of downtown. For him it seemed like racing off a lazy Appalachian mountain road back home and onto a clogged, tarry smelling big city street with endless rows… Read full post »

I hear the snowfall whispering around us and

I feel the teardrop in my eye go hard.

(It is indeed a barren winter)

My knees are wet and cold from kneeling beside you

     in this, an unaccustomed spot, and I pronounce softly your life

    … Read full post »

It's out there on Wikiipedia and how official is that?   Her mother is Muslim and her father is Arab?  It's true as far as I know.  Would tea partiers have voted for her if they had heard this?

Has anyone seen a birth certificate or a religious identity confirmation on her? … Read full post »

It's out there on Wikiipedia and how official is that?  As far as I know, this story is true.  Well, O'Donnell's mother is Muslim and her father is Arab.  Would  fellow tea partiers have voted for her had they heard this? 

Has anyone seen a birth certificate or a religious… Read full post »

We here in West Virginia do indeed take care of our own in matters of family and friends. It is cultural, it is sincere and it is ubiquitous growing out of the need to be my brothers keeper as those inviolate holy scriptures bind us to do...the problems lying therein left… Read full post »

Imagine this scenario: the real neocons, the ones you don't see or hear, summons the wall street barons, all corporate tycoons, Rupert Murdock and Pat Robertson together for a super-secret meeting at Camp David with Geo. W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Mitch McConnell and John Boenner (John McCain has the flu,… Read full post »

Now, Ross Douthat is further utilizing his 'privilege' of replacing Billy Kristol's coffin corner lunacy at the NYT with todays opinion piece.  He, like Kristol, needs to be taken to the fact checker woodshed.  (I think Kristol actually was and got fired).  One example: how GWB ga… Read full post »

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney intentionally misled us into the war in Iraq and a star-gazed media enabled them ergo, many decent, rational Americans are not inclined to believe their national leaders when they tell them their health care reform bills will actually help all of them.

The stung, recent… Read full post »

Whew!  I don't think I've ever felt a hotter or longer August than this one.  Of course, that's thanks to the misnomered 'health care reform' production of long, extended blasts of hot air from the least informed, most ill-tempered and least caring of my fellow citizens, especially pure dri… Read full post »

There will be a health related bill come September or October and more accurately, it could be called health insurance modification with the foot/finger/tongue imprimatur of the hospital, pharmaceutical and private health insurance companies proudly etched on it.

There will be no non-p… Read full post »

We've all read, watched and heard the opinions pro and con about Sarah Palin and I think some statements from either side ring true.  I'd like to make a few factual observations based on what some of her supporters said to me. 

I've met a lot of people here in southwest WV,… Read full post »

There are so many more important issues to discuss but the newest publicity hound, Dick Cheney has forced a momentary break to address the pathetic state of his blood-starved brain which seems to perceive itself as the Dickensonian head of a depressed, vulnerable orphanage: America.

It seems to… Read full post »

Credibility Flash:  Senator Arlen Specter is now a democrat?  and, Governor Sarah Palin is now pro-choice!  Either of these declarations makes as much sense as the other which means neither.  Isn't it fun to double-speak...

Enough already.  It's disgusting to watch some… Read full post »

Southern senators including Shelby and Sessions of Alabama, Corker of Tennessee, et. al. have resumed the American Civil War and have launched an all-out, scorched-earth strategy against ironically, the union.

If you think this is far-fetched then you are not familiar with southern mentality.  T… Read full post »

I just witnessed via TV, an Iraqi journalist throw a shoe, then reach down and remove his other shoe and throw it, too.  Where?  At Pres. Geo. W. Bush as he stood with Maliki espousing his revisionist rhetoric about his great success in Iraq.  First impressions are sometimes the most a… Read full post »

President-elect Barack Obama said the other day that friendship would not affect his decisions on policy/personnel matters.  Well, bravo.  What I am most concerned about is whether his rather admirable temperament will permit him to 'dismiss' anyone under his charge when they have seri… Read full post »

Barack Obama himself has said he doesn't want 'yes' sycophants around his decision making.  His political chess skills are established and I admire them yet,  Hilary Clinton as SOS is ill-advised.  What second or third move ahead can she be?  

I see danger in the very fact th… Read full post »

Good grief!  If we know anybody these days its Geoge W. Bush.  He has yet to speak the truth to anything or fail to have an ulterior motive for his every act.  To learn today that he may have 'suggested' Obama's support for a free trade deal with Colombia in exchange… Read full post »

I just returned from voting for Barack Obama for President of the United States of America.  After waiting about twenty minutes to vote, I stepped before the touch screen voting machine.  Momentarily the ballot appeared with an almost magical twinkle and second on the list for president was… Read full post »