I would hate to rain on the right wing’s post party parade by pointing out what should be obvious, but because they are immune to reality there is no danger of doing that. For those not trapped in the ideological circle jerk that defines the boundaries of what passes for… Read full post »

He stood on the stage bathing in the adulation of the assembled dignitaries. The Nobel Prize! At last, his body of work had been given the honor it deserved. As the standing ovation went on he thought of his critics. He knew they were watching. Did this great hall look… Read full post »

CNN's Campbell Brown challenged Rush to a debate over a month ago.  

As economic reality has forced us to extract our hedonist heads from our hirsute heinies, we can now see that debt isn’t growth, credit isn’t wealth, and surrendering our government to private interests isn’t “taking personal responsibility.” The smoke has cleared… Read full post »

Among the many strange political arguments I have heard and sometimes responded to, is one that begins like this:

We are a Republic, not a Democracy!

I never quite got the point of this when I heard it on talk radio shows or saw it in online forums. Is it to impl… Read full post »

Washington Needs More Hayek and Less Armey 

Dick Armey is back, and has captured the attention of Americans. Some to bask in the wisdom of his astute economic advice, and most, probably, waiting in what is certain futility to see if the front… Read full post »

We met in a D.C. parking garage around 2 am. My highly placed source was obviously more nervous than usual. I coul… Read full post »

H… Read full post »

 Having been a normal American boy of my era, there was a time when no form of wildlife was safe from my evil intent. Spending many days at my Grandmother’s farm, armed with BB gun and pocketknife, I had plundered nature’s bounty in ways I now realize were cruel and unnec… Read full post »

Losing the Cold War - why the USSR fell, and the lesson America will be forced to learn

The story of the collapse of the Soviet Union has two versions - the myth and the truth. The more widely known is the myth that Reagan spent the USSR into demise… Read full post »

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Cartoon courtesy of my son, Paul J. O'Rourke 2nd, U. of Southern Mississippi

Used by his permission - whether he gave it or not - by his father.

PS -- Not intended as a spr… Read full post »

Another excerpt from my alternate Bush Legacy Project....

We met in a D.C. parking garage around 2 am. My highly placed source was obviously more nervous than usual. I could tell he had what could be an explosive news story. I had figured C… Read full post »

Another excerpt from my alternate Bush Legacy Project. 

To begin his professional career, George went back to Texas to start a few oil businesses. When it came to raising start up capital, he quickly developed a reputation for being the man with the golden touch

Tone pho… Read full post »

We’re all pretty familiar with George’s days in the Texas Air National Guard. He was flying, he wasn’t flying - he disappeared. I checked on the White House Legacy Project web site for the latest version of why he wasn’t seen in Alabama and found this:

&nb… Read full post »

As both historical record, and as a countering effort to the 11^th hour White House attempt to create a Bush legacy, I am compiling an alternate and more accurate record using interviews with his contemporaries, and tapping insider sources. Here are a couple of excerpts from /… Read full post »

Having been a normal American boy of my era, there was a time when no form of wildlife was safe from my evil intent. Having spent many days at my Grandmother’s farm, armed with BB gun and pocketknife, I had plundered nature’s bounty in ways I now realize were… Read full post »

 Circumlocution:

1 : the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea 2 : evasion in speech

She skins a Moose

She guards our border

She uses the English language

In random order  

But when I see her

She makes my day

She’s… Read full post »

Hello, all.

I’m blogging tonight from the Fox News New Year’s party. I traded a cheese mold of Reagan on Rushmore for the ticket.

11:00----Things really got rolling around here by 10 PM, and the liquor is flowing freely. Everyone is excited, as at midnight, Sean Hannity’… Read full post »

From the Pudge Report: 

According to a source within Patrick Fitzgerald’s office, a recent videotaped sting effort shows that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich accepted compensation for a promise to appoint an as yet unnamed person to President elect Obama’s Senat… Read full post »

I bought two Sarah Palin dolls today-- one a wind up, the other inflatable.

When I got home, I wound the first Sarah up -- it fell flat on its face, then pointed at my Katie Couric doll.

I blew the second Sarah doll up. It quickly deflated. I blew it up a… Read full post »

From the Greater Metropolitan Hectorville Gazette 

Hectorville, Oklahoma 

I’m sure the McCain campaign post mortems will include some discussion of marketing. Should he have stayed with “Experience” by avoiding choosing Palin? Was “Mavericks” the best marketin… Read full post »

There comes a moment in some marriages when the husband and wife have moved along divergent paths to the point where they no longer have the desire to remain together, and the words that signal the end of the union are spoken. We have seen the political equivalent of this recently… Read full post »