Does Michele Bachmann get goose pimples when she hears the William Tell overture?
It seems that last winter, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, her husband, Marcus, and their children applied to become citizens of Switzerland, an option that is open to them under Swiss law because the parents of Marcus Bachmann had both been Swiss citizens. (The Bachmann family kept their American citizenship.)
I can only imagine the freakout on the right if a prominent Democratic legislator — a one-time candidate for president with a significant following — decided that American citizenship wasn’t good enough and had pledged dual loyalties to a European country that allows same-sex marriage and offers universal health care with compulsory health insurance.
Oh, the harrumphing we would see.
As it is, the case creates a head-hurting degree of cognitive dissonance for many conservatives that a dose of Goody’s headache powder just can’t cure. On the one hand, this is a clear act of disloyalty! On the other hand, it’s Michele Bachmann!
Take the reaction of Mark Krikorian, head of the right-wing Center for Immigration Studies and a prominent figure in conservative circles. Just to let you know where he’s coming from, Krikorian actually argued back in 2009 that Americans shouldn’t “defer” to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in the pronunciation of her name. Instead, we should insist on what he called “the natural English pronunciation, SO-tuh-my-er, like Niedermeyer,” because “there are basically two options — the newcomer adapts to us, or we adapt to him.”
In other words, “Don’t tell us what your name is. We’ll tell YOU what your name is.”
In this case, Krikorian is himself suffering competing loyalties. He considers Bachmann “highly capable and no doubt a patriot” (although he also acknowledges that “I don’t think she’s ready to be president”). But he’s deeply offended by what he calls “a formal declaration of divided allegiance, civic bigamy, if you will.”
So how does Krikorian resolve his cognitive dissonance? Like this:
“The fact that even a patriot like Bachmann would do something like this is testament to how thoroughly the moral relativism of the post-national Left has permeated our culture.”
That, ladies and gentlemen, is a classic.
– Jay Bookman
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Paul
May 10th, 2012
4:16 pm
Afternoon, josef
Your comment the other day regarding the after-hours meeting, you translating, and A&B ganging up on new group C?
Ft Worth Star Telegram’s been running articles the last few days regarding the school board. Seems the board voted out the interim trustee, an Hispanic, then the whites and blacks voted together for new board officers.
No Hispanics.
Did I mention the Fort Worth school district is 60 percent Hispanic?
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
May 10th, 2012
4:16 pm
uncle samanatha
bless your heart
barking frog
May 10th, 2012
4:16 pm
equality before the law
should mean that if anyone
can vote everyone can vote
and that is in the
Constitution.
Peadawg
May 10th, 2012
4:16 pm
“Rush”
Aaaaaaaaaaand I stopped reading
getalife
May 10th, 2012
4:17 pm
“Shoot…ain’t no fun in here today, is there?”
It is always entertaining and fun
That Black Guy, now and FOREVER!!
May 10th, 2012
4:18 pm
getalife
May 10th, 2012
3:56 pm
I don’t think filthy Blacks, women, gays,or vets should drink out of our water fountains, eat in our restaurants and use our bath rooms.
Get to the back of the bus Blacks, women, gays,or vets .
It’s pay back time.
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Fixed that for you Racist, sexist, homophobe divider, getalife.
josef
May 10th, 2012
4:19 pm
PAUL
Equality? Ain’t it grand!
St Simons - we're on Island time
May 10th, 2012
4:19 pm
The colubus monkey flings poo when it feels its existence is threatened
josef
May 10th, 2012
4:21 pm
St Simon’s
barking frog
May 10th, 2012
4:21 pm
St Simons
So do i along with other
things, like bullets.
josef
May 10th, 2012
4:22 pm
getalife
Yeah, but you’re a divisive troublemaker!
That Black Guy, now and FOREVER!!
May 10th, 2012
4:22 pm
getalife
May 10th, 2012
3:56 pm
I don’t think filthy cons should drink out of our water fountains, eat in our restaurants and use our bath rooms.
Get to the back of the bus cons.
_______________________________________________________________________
Adam, does this count as having racist undertones?
G Mare 71( got the living' the red state BLUES!)
May 10th, 2012
4:23 pm
Normal,Thanks for posting the move to amend info. I have already signed it. Had read the story about the nuns but didn’t know about that petition; just went over there & signed it, too!
Tom(Independent-Viet Vet USAF)
May 10th, 2012
4:23 pm
JB@3:15 – Well said, agree with you 100%. Still standby my view of having a bully representing me in WH instead of a wussy!!!
Bernie
May 10th, 2012
4:24 pm
Dick Solomon: What’s the point of having a democracy, if everybody’s going to vote wrong?
”
3rd Rock from the Sun – 1996
They BOTH suck
May 10th, 2012
4:24 pm
josef
Hope you had a good night and it has continued into today.
After you left last night there continued to be some fine examples of Christian love and outreach. Jesus would have been a proud man
Joe Hussein Mama
May 10th, 2012
4:25 pm
SSI — “The colubus monkey flings poo when it feels its existence is threatened”
How remarkable! That’s exactly what Republicans do in that situation!
JOE COOL~DoWnToWn THUG
May 10th, 2012
4:25 pm
LOL….backtracking at its best.
-Michele Bachmann to withdraw her Swiss citizenship during her bid for re-election-
In a statement, Bachmann said she did not want to leave the impression that she was uncommitted to the United States.
Today I sent a letter to the Swiss Consulate requesting withdrawal of my dual Swiss citizenship, which was conferred upon me by operation of Swiss law when I married my husband in 1978. I took this action because I want to make it perfectly clear: I was born in America and I am a proud American citizen. I am, and always have been, 100 percent committed to our United States Constitution and the United States of America. As the daughter of an Air Force veteran, stepdaughter of an Army veteran and sister of a Navy veteran, I am proud of my allegiance to the greatest nation the world has ever known.
While Bachmann says she automatically became a Swiss citizen when she married her husband Marcus in 1978, Politico’s Tim Mak reports that the marriage was only disclosed to Swiss authorities this year when the couple registered their children for dual citizenship.
That Black Guy, now and FOREVER!!
May 10th, 2012
4:25 pm
They BOTH suck
May 10th, 2012
3:58 pm
TBG
Regardless of politics, that one isn’t worth your time.
A while back he was all upset about what polls said before Obama was elected. I showed him the polls from right before the election, numerous ones I might add from various sites, even one from the pollster he cried about.
In his convoluted mind, I was the one who had been duped because the numbers were changed and I wasn’t aware.
His logic his weak and he will double down on nothing as quick and as much as anyone on this blog
_______________________________________________________________________________
I remember that.
I just wanted to point out his sexist, homophobic, racist positions.
And he’s spitting on vets.
They BOTH suck
May 10th, 2012
4:25 pm
” or God, Son of God,etc, etc”
Paul
May 10th, 2012
4:26 pm
getalife
“Shoot…ain’t no fun in here today, is there?”
It is always entertaining and fun”
Because….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq28qCklEHc#t=02m56s
Joe Hussein Mama
May 10th, 2012
4:26 pm
Tom — “Still standby my view of having a bully representing me in WH instead of a wussy!!!”
Respectfully, I don’t think President Obama has demonstrated wussiness.
carlosgvv
May 10th, 2012
4:26 pm
Calvin Coolidge served as US President from 1923 to 1929. Under Coolidge the federal government functioned mainly for the benefit of big corporations and the wealthy. The stock market collapsed in 1929 causing a very long and very deep depression.
Just saying…………..
They BOTH suck
May 10th, 2012
4:27 pm
josef
I think they proper term would be calling “being a witness…….
josef
May 10th, 2012
4:28 pm
BOTH
Of course I scrolled back through. It was really funny…and, yep, I’m still in a good mood.
Peadawg
May 10th, 2012
4:28 pm
“Respectfully, I don’t think President Obama has demonstrated wussiness.”
How many times has he caved to Republicans? Besides ordering the strike on OBL…Hillary has bigger balls them him and that’s why she’s getting my vote.
Recon 0311 2533
May 10th, 2012
4:29 pm
josef,
What do you and other gay’s really think about what Obama had to say yesterday. It seemed that all he did was indicate his approval but apparently also added that he viewed same sex marriage as a state by state issue. Didn’t really give any indication that he would do much to champion your cause. Really more political expedience than substance or did I miss something?
RB from Gwinnett
May 10th, 2012
4:29 pm
Joe, you’re just one silly excuse after another aren’t you. Pathetic.
St Simons - we're on Island time
May 10th, 2012
4:29 pm
well, there’s poo flingiing monkeys…
…and then there’s Obama the Honey Badger. He’s badass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
Joe Hussein Mama
May 10th, 2012
4:31 pm
Peadawg — “How many times has he caved to Republicans? Besides ordering the strike on OBL…Hillary has bigger balls them him and that’s why she’s getting my vote.”
I think he was too trusting of Republicans, not necessarily wussy. And that was certainly an error in judgment on his part.
They BOTH suck
May 10th, 2012
4:31 pm
josef
The best was when the “scholar” put up a verse and inferred the interpretation only to post later that……. well Jesus “really didn’t say anything about that, but he didn’t say anything about a lot of issues”….. or something on that line, but my context is correct
Oh well, takes all kinds to say the least
getalife
May 10th, 2012
4:31 pm
“did I miss something?”
Whew, we will be here awhile addressing that issue.
(ir)Rational
May 10th, 2012
4:32 pm
Recon – Are you arguing that marriage isn’t a state by state thing? The only thing the feds should be involved in (in my opinion) is that states recognize other states contracts.
getalife
May 10th, 2012
4:33 pm
“Hillary has bigger balls them him and that’s why she’s getting my vote.”
She is running pea.
They BOTH suck
May 10th, 2012
4:33 pm
“Joe, you’re just one silly excuse after another aren’t you. Pathetic.”
Is this from the same blogger who posted something about illegals and voting and couldn’t produce any substantiation for the bs he asserted?
Maybe I’m mistaken. Let me extend an apology if that was not you.
DebbieDoRight
May 10th, 2012
4:34 pm
williebequiet: So if you are for homosexuality then you too must be homosexual. Why dont you make a list of all the vile disgusting behaviors your kind likes and maybe we can pin it in the wall for everyone.
Why? So that you can have your creepy fantasies like your mancrusher LimpBalls? Hey, why don’t you just get out of the closet and find out for yourself how “liberating” it would be to not have to lie to your friends and family anymore?
Just think of it, no more making up stories about “hunting” with the fellows; or “fishing” with the guys! Now you can be free and say to the world, “I ACTUALLY WENT ON A 4 DAY BORK FEST WITH MY LOVER BOB AND 3 OTHER GUYS!”
Just let it go and be free willieb — just let it go and be FREE!!!
barking frog
May 10th, 2012
4:35 pm
It was unusual for a
democratic president to endorse states rights.
Joe Hussein Mama
May 10th, 2012
4:36 pm
RB — “Joe, you’re just one silly excuse after another aren’t you.”
You didn’t ask what you now say you did. Go back and read your own question. It’s near the top of page 9, I believe.
“Pathetic”
It’s not my responsibility to figure out what you mean if you can’t express yourself clearly, RB. And once again, if you want me to play nice with you, then stop being a jackass.
I give what I get. If you want to be a jackass to me, I’m certainly down with dishing it right back at you. OTOH, if you want to act like an adult, I can certainly return that.
You forget; I was on your side of the fence for over 20 years, so I know the GOP playbook *quite well indeed.* I’m not falling for the standard play of ‘liberals have to be polite while conservatives fight dirty.’ I fight back. But I’m also quite capable of being kind and polite — provided you’re able and willing to do the same thing.
Your choice. I’m fine with either way you want to play it, RB.
getalife
May 10th, 2012
4:36 pm
Actually, President Clinton caved more than our President.
The gop are using the same newt strategy.
josef
May 10th, 2012
4:38 pm
DEL
He didn’t lay out any type of political action platform. I can’t speak for any gay but myself, but I was impressed by the way he presented his own evolution. He didn’t try to pretend that he started out all warm and fuzzy toward gay people and admitted that he realized it was because he really didn’t know very many to begin with. What I really admired was how he phrased both his former reticence and now his outspokenness as a product of his own Christian evolution.
What I find most intriguing about the whole thing is who is in the Imam corner of claiming this was no “profile in courage.” Agree or disagree with him, it took cajones to get up and say what he did the way he said it.
And know who kept running through my mind? JohnnyReb… it took cajones for him to admit that he had been wrong, too.
Tom(Independent-Viet Vet USAF)
May 10th, 2012
4:39 pm
Joe@4:25 – is wussiness really a word?? Ok, let’s go with passiveness instead! My favs still are the bully or a military person though.
Recon 0311 2533
May 10th, 2012
4:40 pm
Recon – Are you arguing that marriage isn’t a state by state thing? Nope just saying that it didn’t seem as though Obama gave much to the homosexual community by only stating that evolution brought him to his personal opinion on same sex marriage. Not really signaling that as president he would champion that opinion.
josef
May 10th, 2012
4:40 pm
BOTH
That one really tickled me…!
They BOTH suck
May 10th, 2012
4:40 pm
“Ok, let’s go with passiveness instead! ”
Passive as in the increase in drone attacks even to the point of killing US citizens?
Peadawg
May 10th, 2012
4:41 pm
“She is running pea.”
Nope but that doesn’t stop me from exercising my right to vote and right her name in.
Paul
May 10th, 2012
4:41 pm
Joe Hussein Mam
“Respectfully, I don’t think President Obama has demonstrated wussiness.”
Now you’re sounding just like those 2,000 militants just before the drones launched their Hellfires….
DebbieDoRight
May 10th, 2012
4:41 pm
Well said, agree with you 100%. Still standby my view of having a bully representing me in WH instead of a wussy!!!
Man, that Agent Orange must be a son of a gun even now! Dude, dont forget your meds, remember, these things take time. These things take time. Oh and thanks for your service.
Bernie
May 10th, 2012
4:41 pm
As of today , Michele Bachmann renounces Swiss citizenship, saying “I took this action because I want to make it perfectly clear: I was born in America and I am a proud American citizen. I am, and always have been, 100 percent committed to our United States Constitution and the United States of America. As the daughter of an Air Force veteran, stepdaughter of an Army veteran and sister of a Navy veteran, I am proud of my allegiance to the greatest nation the world has ever known
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76175.html#ixzz1uV9KzZuQ
It only took her 24 hours to FLIP FLOP!
(ir)Rational
May 10th, 2012
4:42 pm
josef – Better late than never on realizing you’re wrong about something. I honestly don’t remember ever having a problem with gays, but it did take me a while to start telling people to stuff it when they were being ignorant. Like I said, better late than never. One of the few things I’ve been proud of that he’s done.
Recon 0311 2533
May 10th, 2012
4:42 pm
josef, thanks for your opinion.
Peadawg
May 10th, 2012
4:43 pm
write*
They BOTH suck
May 10th, 2012
4:43 pm
josef
I didn’t read it until this morning myself Even though he didn’t call it a retraction because he and I were going at it pretty good, it was a retraction even if he wouldn’t call it that.
I was pleasantly surprised to be honest. Most would have just kept on going
getalife
May 10th, 2012
4:45 pm
pea,
I will vote for her if she runs again but my vote will count for our President this cycle.
RB from Gwinnett
May 10th, 2012
4:45 pm
You’re a joke Joe. Youll post a 5 page pile of nothing to avoid answering the question making every excuse in the book along the way.
getalife
May 10th, 2012
4:47 pm
rb,
What was the bigot question again?
Paul
May 10th, 2012
4:48 pm
Hey DDR
“Just let it go and be free willieb — just let it go and be FREE!!!”
Was living in England in the 80s. Went to the cinema with some friends. There was a preview for this movie called “Free Willy” about a trapped orca. Clip showed this orca breaking thru the surface just as the screen was emblazoned with the words “FREE WILLY” Al the Brits about fell out of their chairs laughing. I asked a friend what was so funny and he said in England “Willy” is slang for a guy’s manparts.
Kinda fits in with your post to williebequiet, doesn’t it?
Joe Hussein Mama
May 10th, 2012
4:49 pm
Tom — “Joe@4:25 – is wussiness really a word?? Ok, let’s go with passiveness instead!”
How about ‘passivity?’ Would that work for you?
I don’t think President Obama is as passive/wussy as some seem to think. I do think that he trusted the GOP too much early on, and I think he gave up a lot of ground for a couple of years. But I also think that he is quietly and slyly manipulative, and that he sometimes fools the GOP into giving him what he wants by tricking them without giving away hints that he’s even doing it. I think President Obama would be a hell of a poker player!
I used to be a traveling IT consultant years ago, and on one job, we went out for dinner with one of the client partners (these were the ‘fixers’ who found new business and stroked and petted the clients to keep them happy once we had gotten the job). She was complaining about how ’stupid’ one client’s management seemed to be, and the client was a large business in the South. The client partner was a New Yorker.
I explained to her that Southerners are *not* stupid, but that with people from outside the South, we would sometimes let them *think* that we were in order to get the outsiders to drop their guard — so that we could get an advantage. If the client’s people seem to be dumb hicks, I explained, they might have been trying to run that game on her.
She looked absolutely dumbfounded at that point. It never entered her mind that *she* might have been the one who was getting played. And so it is now with President Obama. If Congressional Republicans *think* he’s a wuss and easily bullied, then the President could take advantage of that and carefully *manipulate* them into a position where he’s got the upper hand.
“My favs still are the bully or a military person though.”
I’m always interested in the veteran candidate, though I carefully examine their political record to see how much of a friend they’ve been to veterans. I was frankly *appalled* by how unfriendly McCain had been to vets, and I was surprised to see how many times he had voted against programs to help us.
With respect to bullies, I have no time for them and I won’t vote for them.
(ir)Rational
May 10th, 2012
4:50 pm
Paul – I wasn’t aware that was just a British thing. Guess it had permeated younger slang here by the time I was growing up.
Alright, y’all have a great evening, I’m out.
DebbieDoRight
May 10th, 2012
4:50 pm
Hiya Paul!! Yep – it certainly does!
They BOTH suck
May 10th, 2012
4:51 pm
RB
Speaking of questions. How bout the factual evidence to back up the illegals and voting issue that YOU brought up today?
I know you have been working hard to back up your bs. Try google, yahoo and bing if you need assistance
Tom(Independent-Viet Vet USAF)
May 10th, 2012
4:52 pm
getalife@4:45 – Would you really vote for a skirt?? Think about that for a moment please, Pres Hilliary Clinton. Bill Clinton in WH again with all those interns, nah!!
Joe Hussein Mama
May 10th, 2012
4:53 pm
RB — “You’re a joke Joe.”
Shrug. Whatever you say.
“Youll post a 5 page pile of nothing to avoid answering the question”
If you want a question answered, then ASK it. Don’t post a poorly-written gripefest and then expect me to untangle your middle-school grammar errors.
“making every excuse in the book along the way.”
I’m not going to be bullied into playing with you. Grow the eff up and ask your question like a man if you want an answer.
josef
May 10th, 2012
4:54 pm
DEL
My pleasure…you know I love to give it, and when asked for it, wheee!
irRational
I know I keep banging my tin drum on al Shariff’s comment that this was no “profile in courage.” But, that just plumb pissed me off, big time. If you can believe the Imam he never harbored and ill will, misconception, uninformed or biased thought toward gay people in his life. And where is his own “confession” and act of contrition. Yet…but then this is what the memo said…it was funny as sh*t last night listening to the straight liberal commentators trying to get their”gay spokesmen” to criticize the President for “taking so long.” They just couldn’t get it…it wasn’t in the memo…gay folks were supposed to be saying “about time” when for many of us it was, “he DID it! He said it!”
Jay
May 10th, 2012
4:57 pm
Josef, what damn “memo” are you rambling on about again?
GT
May 10th, 2012
4:57 pm
Could you imagine be married to Michele Bachmann? You would spend you hold life in gotcha hell. She is the vain of a conservative that dwells on the petty, exaggerates and down right lies to make her point which is usually a petty point about things not even real. You want to tell her we in America have enough problems without people like you inventing them. We waste our energy on fear and misinformation we don’t have enough energy to fight the real problems. Barney Fife as a female.
josef
May 10th, 2012
5:05 pm
JAY
You’re just too funny on that one! Rambling on…ooooh Parse-on Brownlow…!
You know what I refer to when I say memo as well as anybody else and the memo (take a look at the commentaries) said “he did it for political reasons…he was maneuvered…etc.”
But, now that you’re here…wanna give me an example of what YOU would consider a contemporary profile in courage…?
G Mare 71( got the living' the red state BLUES!)
May 10th, 2012
5:06 pm
Stsimons, thanks for the honeybadger
josef
May 10th, 2012
5:07 pm
IMAM
And there are the fresh sheets…. I’ll try not to pick on you up there…try, I said…I’m still giddy…
Liberal Pariah
May 10th, 2012
5:07 pm
Talk about dwelling on the petty. This is the lamest blog I believe Jay has ever done. Must be a very slow news day in Liberal Land.
Martin Williams
May 10th, 2012
5:08 pm
Jay, I told you long time ago that the Tea Party folks are just a bunch fools with very low common sense. Tea Party fools made Michelle Backmanns who she is today and I am happy she is truly sticking it to them. Congrats to her, smart move Michelle.
Jay
May 10th, 2012
5:10 pm
Sure, Josef:
Ending DADT and refusing to defend DOMA, both actions that you pooh-poohed as too late and of not much impact.
In the case of DADT, it had an immediate effect on the lives of real people, and it required him to buck a lot of folks in the military and in Congress. Compared to this most recent step, he had a lot more at risk.
But you didn’t care to see it that way, as I recall.
Thulsa Doom
May 10th, 2012
5:17 pm
The cat
May 10th, 2012
2:56 pm
TD-how many of those polar bears are gay?
The Cat,
I dunno but the ones that are we should just shoot them. Same with the African American and Hispanic polar bears.
(keep up the good fight facetious statement disclaimer for statements not to be taken seriously. )
Thulsa Doom
May 10th, 2012
5:21 pm
“You’re a joke Joe. Youll post a 5 page pile of nothing to avoid answering the question making every excuse in the book along the way.”
Every conservative figures out Joe Mama sooner or later.
josef
May 10th, 2012
5:26 pm
JAY
You bloody wuss. I admitted I WAS wrong, didn’t I? Didn’t I say I was one of the most critical of him and now I was here to say, nope he is a “fierce” advocate…he told us how he evolved…that took courage…now, why can’t you evolve, too, and admit that he showed a true profile in courage…
And, no, he didn’t have a lot more to risk then. He wasn’t standing for re-election, the polls were showing that a heavy majority of the American people were in favor of repeal of DADT and from a wide cross-section of the population…DOMA…best not to get into that here since it would take a book, but THIS is what I wanted to hear when he was mealy mouthing about DOMA…you can’t go for gay marriage without putting DOMA in the sights…
And, like I said, just look at who is in your corner when it comes to calling it because he was being maneuvered…I mean here on the blog…like I said, a man is known by the company he keeps…
clestes
May 10th, 2012
5:28 pm
A classic indeed Jay, on how republicans handle their base. Knowing that their audience can’t read much above a 3rd grade level, they throw a bunch of big words together and hope the sh*t sticks.
What garbage the South produces these days.
Don Abernethy
May 10th, 2012
5:39 pm
I guess Bachmann figured if Obama can be President and not be a citizen she could do the same thing.
Joe Hussein Mama
May 10th, 2012
5:49 pm
Doom — “Every conservative figures out Joe Mama sooner or later.”
Poor writers, like birds of a feather, do certainly seem to flock together.
GT
May 10th, 2012
5:53 pm
You know a dumb person dies a thousand deaths not understanding the problems. You would think the nerves would demand some relief from the ignorance. We didn’t even know what gay people were in my childhood now they are going to rearrange the world. I wonder if there is a way of counting gay people, you know seeing if they are gaining on us. An indicator like the money supply, now that would scare some people wouldn’t it? I sure that would be difficult to estimate, I actually know a few friends that were married to gay people never had a clue, until one day the spouse came out of the closet and left with a lover. Like illegal immigrants you really never know how many there really are among us. I can think of two prominent Atlanta people that happen to. You think they all come out of the closet or maybe some just stay married. Someone reading this could have the problem and just doesn’t know it.
Jay
May 10th, 2012
6:03 pm
Yes, Thulsa, it is only the Rs who refuse to compromise and negotiate. Without a doubt.
Unless of course, you use the Richard Mourdock definition of compromise, meaning insisting that the Democrats surrender and accept GOP hegemony.
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
May 10th, 2012
8:23 pm
Ms. Bachmann’s actions are only prudent, given the state of our country. Better have “Plan B” ready if you can. When your country abdicates its responsibilities to you, you have no responsibilities to it. I think the Pilgrims, etc. knew something about this.
Thomas
May 10th, 2012
10:24 pm
New York Times headlines
A slowing economy and political upheavals are bringing the advantages of China’s mix of authoritarian politics and state-guided capitalism into question