Rand Paul Says America Should Glorify Profit

“We as a society need to glorify those who make a profit.” Speaking on the Senate floor, saying “we should ask the oil companies what is stopping you from making even more money?”, Senator Rand Paul concluded with those 12 words. Glorify profit. Thank you, Sen. Paul, for showing the world exactly what’s wrong with the Ayn Rand school of psychotic economics  you and your Tea Party...

When Fear Leads To Murder

We live in a culture of fear.  The news media feeds a gullible public a steady diet of fear every day.  We’re told we should be afraid of minorities, of liberals, of conservatives, of women, of the food we eat, of the water we drink, of nuclear annihilation and the end of the world and of the coming zombie apocalypse. The steady diet of fear pimped through the media has created a society where we see the...

Bumper Stickers, Blah People, And #TrayvonMartin

Folks, let’s just call these events, and others like them, for what they embrace. Racism. 100% pure, unadulterated racism. Example 1 – The bumper shown in the featured image of this post, spelling renege “re-nig” is blatantly racist.  There is no other reasonable explanation for intentionally spelling the word that way.  None.  In a recent interview with Forbes, Paula Smith of...

36 Years Of Data Prove ‘Drill Baby Drill’ Won’t Work

Via Associated Press- A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic oil production by The Associated Press shows no statistical correlation between how much oil comes out of U.S. wells and the price at the pump. If more domestic oil drilling worked as politicians say, you’d now be paying about $2 a gallon for gasoline. Instead, you’re paying the...

Tea Party Folds – Will Not Not Endorse Romney

I wondered how this would turn out.  A few months ago, I stated that Mitt Romney would be the GOP nominee.  Although there’s still a 10%-15% chance of that not happening, the fact that both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are still in the primary race splitting the ultraconservative religious vote is allowing Romney to squeeze out victories in big states like Illinois. I then wondered what the ultra-right...