Okay, so this article is only about Guns.  I couldn’t help but throw in the Warren Zevon quote for the title, so you’ll pardon me.  Though this actually isn’t a bad description of Republican policy.  As I was saying, the big issue here is gun control.  Obama is notorious among the...

I was looking back through my previous articles to see what I haven’t written about yet, and I realized I haven’t written an article dedicated to Afghanistan!  Shock!  Well now’s as good a time as any to start on it, what with the major NATO offensive going on in the Afghan Helmand...

It’s hard not to look into the past and compare the current administration with other major Democratic administrations, and there seem to be four camps that people are falling into with their Obama comparisons:  there are the Carter comparisons, the Clinton comparisons, the Johnson Comparisons and...

Haiti is one of those countries we neither hear of nor care about unless something is going dramatically wrong there (that isn’t a personal slam at Haiti, it’s how Americans view most of the world most of the time), and something has gone dramatically wrong there. I don’t need to do a recap...

For those who voted for Barack Obama in 2008, his State of the Union was a return to the form that we all knew him in during the election.  The Obama of promises!  Of hope!  And so on.  The problem for those whose support he had a year ago, though, is that we’ve realize that he can’t do...

It’s like I’m writing for the Onion.  Apparently, Republicans are in a tizzy over Harry Reid being a racist.  I’ll explain:  A book that’s hitting the shelves today called Game Change quotes Harry Reid as saying in 2008 that Obama could have won the election because he was...

There are a number of problems with having a single party control both the White House and Congress.  Especially when that one party also holds filibuster-proof control of the Senate, and essentially has free reign to do whatever they please. And it seems that the Republicans, who, after November of 2008,...

We talked a bit about the bomb plot last year (yes!  Last year!), and about how the plot was foiled.  It’s time to look at the more political aspect of this attack, and how it’ll effect Obama: Okay, first of all, the bomb plot didn’t happen, so that’s a plus in Obama’s...

The immediate, massive grassroots populist uprisings against any and all Obama policies has been kind of startling to the outside observer, particularly in the level of ferocity with which he’s been attacked.  A lot of the attacks come from legitimate places – after all, there is plenty of...

Gay rights are a tough issue to gauge in terms of their impact on a Presidential election, partly because the issue doesn’t necessarily come down to the President in most cases.  Gay rights were a stated part of Obama’s political agenda during the 2008 campaign, and his administration has said...