The Audacity of a Conservative Court

Like it or not, you gotta love it.
 
If you read the papers today you would see that the Supreme Court ruled 9 – 0 in favor of 6,000 black applicants for firefighter suing the City of Chicago. At least that’s the way it’s being reported.
 
While to phrase it that way is not completely untrue, it was [...]

The Real Nightmare

night·marePronunciation: \ˈnīt-ˌmer\Function: noun1 : an evil spirit formerly thought to oppress people during sleep2 : a frightening dream that usually awakens the sleeper3 : something (as an experience, situation, or object) having the monstrous character of a nightmare or producing a feeling of anxiety or terror
There it was in black and white. A “report” [...]

Conservative Realist

I am a conservative. But I am also a realist.
I wear the appellation of conservative with pride. But the fact that I am also a realist means that I don’t feel the need to think or even agree with all other conservatives all the time. On a general basis I can understand [...]

The Fallacy of a GOP Obit

It sounds like trouble’s brewing.
If you listen to the Washington DC bureau of the Chicago Tribune you couldn’t help but think that the conservative right was falling apart from the inside out.
Tribune writer Frank James was apparently able to pull himself away from checking Sarah Palin’s underpants receipts from Victoria’s Secret and typing his story [...]