by James Heflin | Jan 28, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
State of Union: windy, with chance of rhetoric.I think Bob Herbert in the New York Times nails the tenor of tonight's big speech by Obama. And, remarkably, it certainly seems there's a lot of unanimity on far left and far right about the opinion Herbert's...
by James Heflin | Mar 30, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
My favorite headline of the day: Ceci N’Est Pas Un Terrorist It does bear asking–when are militants who, according to the indictment, planned to kill a cop, then kill more cops at the funeral using weapons of mass destruction not terrorists? Would they be...
by James Heflin | Feb 1, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Howard Zinn being optimistic–I hope he was correct: So what I'm saying is there is a hard core of Americans whose nationalism, whose loyalty to the establishment is so engraved, who find a way of rationalizing whatever they see. They find a way of...
by James Heflin | Apr 1, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
The results of my experiment (see last post) are in: my neighbor got his mail yesterday, just as I said he would. Ergo, he is a dillhole. Also, I made it rain. Other leading scientists have made news with their experimentation today. Over in one of my favorite places,...
by James Heflin | Feb 2, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Obama is often a frustrating figure, embracing policies put into place by his predecessor and refusing to take strong stands for civil liberty. But I have to hand it to him for one thing–walking directly into the Republicans' camp and taking questions. That...
