I think the labels Liberal and Conservative have become meaningless here in this era of political transition. The Libertarian label has become just as meaningless. Plus I’m an Independent voter, not a member of the Democratic or Republican parties. I can objectively state that Barack Obama is the very worst president the United States has ever had.
Obama is a demagogue who has thrived on race-baiting and on every other method of tearing the country apart into virtually warring camps. He is weak and inept. His administration has been overflowing with scandal since his first year in office but by obstructing the investigations every step of the way this white collar criminal has made it so that probes into even his earliest misdeeds are still dragging on and on. Obama then counts on public boredom with the investigations to provide him with additional cover.
Little Barry has made health insurance unaffordable for the working class and has caused the loss of countless full-time jobs. He then brags about all the new part-time jobs that have sprung up. This piece of garbage hasn’t even been good for the Democratic Party. As Rory Cooper and others have pointed out, under Obama the Democrats have lost over 900 seats in state legislatures, at least a dozen gubernatorial seats, 69 seats in the House and 13 more in the Senate. Continue reading

Just about everybody is familiar with Timothy Leary’s encouragement to “Question Authority” but several of the faux rebels who sport those two words on T-Shirts or bumper stickers or screen savers don’t seem to live up to them.
Balladeer’s Blog presents another examination of an ancient Greek political satire. This comedy by Aristophanes was one that I was planning on covering very soon when I started posting my reviews of Attic Old Comedy years ago. For various reasons it kept falling by the wayside.
More than 2,300 years before George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984, Aristophanes was dealing with some of the same political themes. 







April 9th – Darb Hassan, Syria – Mines of the Islamic State (Obamastan) killed 6 innocent children and injured 3 more.