Democracy: Only a Faint Echo to the GOP

Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4

Horatio: He waxes desperate with imagination.

Marcellus:Let’s follow. ‘Tis not fit thus to obey him.

Horatio:Have after. To what issue will this come?

Marcellus:Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Horatio:Heaven will direct it.

Marcellus: Nay, let’s follow him. [Exeunt.]

Something is rotten in the GOP nominating process.  After tonight’s Maine [...]

History Repeats: Ron Paul – EPIC FAIL

And so it goes…

The Unmooring

He’s lost it.  Shouting and screaming at  the crowd.  It’s sad really, when the pseudo-important become unmoored in public.  In this case,  the pseudo-important is Andrew Breitbart and the unmooring happened in the dark, outside of CPAC.

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Glock talk continues here in Waukesha

A few weeks back, Representative Bill Kramer revealed that he brings his loaded Glock to work with him. Unsurprisingly, people here in Waukesha are still talking about it. At every event I attend lately someone invariably brings up the subject. My friend, Marga Krumins, recently addressed the issue and summed up questions [...]

Prescient

Goldwater was a crank, but he was a prescient crank…

(h/t MAL)

Two Weeks in Madison: A Tribute

Found this great video on facebook and wanted to share!

Fear Factor

There was a study done that republicans have a larger fear center in their brain.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives’ brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other “primitive” emotions. At the same time, conservatives’ brains were also [...]