21st Century Eunuch: The Courtier in the Kleptocrats’ Court
In many societies throughout human history, ranging from Ancient Greece and Rome through the Middle East to the Orient, eunuchs served as personal servants, functionaries, and bureaucrats in royal or...
View ArticleRevolting: Cal Thomas’s Plutocratic Tax Fantasy
In order to take Cal Thomas seriously, one must be blissfully ignorant of his role as propagandist for the plutocracy and blindly accepting of the tortured logic that role necessitates. Before we turn...
View ArticleLaughter in the Distance: Rick Scott’s Alleged Obamacare Apostasy
In an earlier post on Rick Scott’s apparently defining campaign against Obamacare (The Nullification Crisis of 2013), we engaged in some speculation about the Florida Governor’s motivations, without...
View ArticleIt’s Only Terror When They Do It: Cal Thomas Substitutes Hatred for Honesty
Just as Star Parker could be expected to exploit the propaganda potential of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell’s murder conviction, Cal Thomas was bound to weigh in on the recent murder of a British...
View ArticleThe Road from Damascus: Cal Thomas’s Campaign for War with Iran
Cal Thomas’s musings on the current Syrian crisis feature two recurring themes. The first, expressed as a simplistic, repetitive chorus that will no doubt resonate within the deepest fibers of...
View ArticleDancing for Jerusalem: Cal Thomas, Syria, and Israeli Exceptionalism
The week before last, we watched Cal Thomas slither away from a decade of cheerleading for George W. Bush’s war crime against Iraq in order to both discredit Barack Obama’s echo-like plan against Syria...
View ArticleClimate Change Denial and the Inculcation of Ruthlessness
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) rolls out its fifth report, summarizing the “state of the science” on climate change after years of reviewing thousands of published papers, the...
View ArticleConsumerism and Cultural Decline: A Black Friday for Conservative Coherence
When the Soviet Union finally fell apart, the verdict handed down by many a smug commentator was that communism had collapsed under the weight of its own internal contradictions, aided by a push from...
View ArticleTruth and Reconciliation? The American Smear Campaign Against Nelson Mandela
The long-expected death of Nelson Mandela presents the entire human diaspora with an exceptional opportunity for reflection. But while much of the world mourns the loss of one of history’s greatest...
View ArticleSnorting Koch with Shaun McCutcheon: Climate Change, Obamacare, and...
Shaun McCutcheon outside the U.S. Supreme Court. [Image credits: Politico.com/A.P.]For America’s many plutocratic sycophants and lickspittles, whether in the media, like Cal Thomas, or in government,...
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