Archive for March 10th, 2011


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Hirschhorn: Why So Many Americans Hate Obama

I can explain why so many Americans are angry about President Obama and dislike or hate him with passion, and why it has little to do with his actions and policies. But first I must examine the confluence of two historical inflection points that explains so much resentment and opposition to Obama.

Caruba: The Party’s Over

We all see the world through the prism of where we live. Most of us live in the cities and suburbs. From the early 1940s when my parents moved to the picture postcard town of Maplewood, N.J. that is where I grew up and have spent most of my life.

US Farmers Fear the Return of the Dust Bowl

There is not much to be happy about these days in Happy, Texas. Main Street is shuttered but for the Happy National Bank, slowly but inexorably disappearing into a High Plains wind that turns all to dust. The old Picture House, the cinema, has closed. Tumbleweed rolls into the still corners behind the grain elevators, soaring prairie cathedrals that spoke of prosperity before they were abandoned for lack of business.

Cantor: Seniority Be Damned

A lady by the name of Megan Sampson was named the outstanding first year teacher in Wisconsin. One week later this lady received a layoff notice from the Milwaukee Public Schools.

Why you ask, would one our best and brightest new teachers in the state, be among the first to be cut?

Mississippi Woman

A column from the legendary Chicago columnist, Mike Royko.
(Submitted by legendary Federal Observer columnist, Rick Biesada – the Angry White Male)

Now THIS is the way ya do it when ya can’t get to your gun in time & push comes to shove!