by James Heflin | Feb 4, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
We've all seen the "straw man" argument over and over. You know, when someone says "Ice cream tastes good," and somebody else comes along and says: "So you're telling me that a crap souffle doesn't taste good?!? I've had crap...
by James Heflin | Feb 6, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
In his first big post-Vice Vader interview, Cheney clings steadfastly to the rationalization of the worst excesses of his administration. He's not a stupid man, but he's certainly pandering to the stupid. He and Bush mastered oversimplification tactics, and...
by James Heflin | Feb 9, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Ouch! "Insurgency, we understand perhaps a little bit more because of the Taliban," Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.) said during a meeting yesterday with Hotline editors. "And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and...
by James Heflin | Feb 10, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Yesterday I caught "Being Harry Houdini" at the Academy of Music. There's something about magic performance that seems to me older than the hills. I know music has been around as long or longer, but the trappings, even the premise of magic, are very...
by James Heflin | Feb 11, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Obama, in the midst of undoing so many of Bush's abuses of secrecy, just focused on the mother of all secrecy ploys, the "State Secrets Privilege," and has initially signalled that he'll continue abusing it like Bush did. You know what they say about...
