by Leo Shishmanian | Oct 9, 2015 | Fanatical Islam, Immigration, Open Borders, Politics, Syria
The images of refugees from war torn Syria flooding European streets are evidence of just the latest human tragedy to come out of the Middle East–a place where human tragedy at the hands of despots and zealots seems to be part of the very geographical...
by Leo Shishmanian | Aug 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
In January 2015, the GOP announced it would hold 9 presidential primary debates from August 2015 to March 2016. Since then, 16 candidates have officially declared they are running to be the 2016 Republican standard bearer. Yet the GOP has decided to limit their...
by Leo Shishmanian | Jun 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Process Should Matter But Doesn’t Anymore Colonel Hyrum Graff: We won. That’s all that matters. Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters. —From the film Ender’s Game Really, process hasn’t much mattered for a long time.Thursday, a 6-3 majority of the Court...
by Blowhard | Feb 15, 2014 | Barack Obama, Economy, Politics
The other night I attended a Republican meeting in Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington D.C. A candidate for Senator was speaking and I wanted to hear what he had to say. His name is Ed Gillespie and he has been a volunteer and elected leader in the Republican...
by Blowhard | Jan 5, 2014 | Politics, Race, Racism
“What do you mean ‘Democrats are the real racists'”? How often has someone asked you this question? I get it all the time from younger people– 30 and below especially. I used to recite the many instances of institutionalized racism Democrats...
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