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Beneficiaries of “Bush Power”

The dialectic of modern history is a study of the phenomena of propaganda tactics. Make the “right wing” candidate into something hateful so that the masses will cry out for a remedial “left wing” candidate, invert the procedure (as needed), and so on and on. Meanwhile, those whose loyalties transcend such petty bigotries get [...]

High Priest of the Religious Left?

Well, this author gets some things right, though I am quick to add that she has seriously derranged ideas about Kabbala and is an obvious anti-Semite…  Still, the argument that Obama is the poster boy of the various faux intellectuals of our day — i.e., those phony and illegitimate arbiters of a ”metaphysical reality” that is being imposed as [...]

US doctors hate their jobs

Half of primary-care doctors in survey would leave medicine

By Val Willingham CNN Medical Producer      (CNN) — Nearly half the respondents in a survey of U.S. primary care physicians said that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative. Experts say [...]

There is hope: Cheney Indicted

McALLEN, Texas — A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County’s federal detention centers.

The indictment criticizes Cheney’s investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds interests in the private prison companies running [...]