1. Oh, Expectations, How Low You Have Fallen
(News/Defending the Empire)

...action from the media was predictable. CNN loved it, MSNBC practically swooned, and Fox thought otherwise. (Actually, if Abraham Lincoln himself had been reanimated to say something nice, a Fox host w...

2. Television News Trying To Make GM and Ford Look Smart
(News/Defending the Empire)

...tations are making a couple of extra bucks by accepting product placement on their sets. This is in lieu of actually trying to improve the quality of their reporting. I hate to give away the ending...

3. The Gun Show
(News/Defending the Empire)

...the other day. Never been to one? Oh, come on – you’ve got to go! Bring the wife! And the kids! Actually, you don’t see a lot of wives but do you see a lot of kids. And tattoos. And ...

4. Just When I Think I’m Going To Have To Apologize to Canada…
(News/Defending the Empire)

...hould draw the line there, no matter how much we might disagree with the American war effort in Iraq. Actually, four decades ago we opened our doors to draft dodgers and deserters – more t...

5. The Worst Big-City Newspaper In America Proves It Again
(Sheriff/News)

... Only then, with most of the article done, did the reporter and the paper bother to note that sheriff actually had something to say in response - though the paper didn’t deign to quote him...

6. The U.S. Government and Solar: Outrageously Stupid or Unbelievably Stupid?
(News/Defending the Empire)

...understand which public lands are best suited for solar energy development." It would be nice to actually believe that the BLM is so righteously concerned with the sanctity of public lands....

7. American Money, Mexican Demands
(News/Defending the Empire)

...that civilian authorities approached such cases in accordance with Mexican law, which some scholars say may actually allow soldiers to be transferred from military to civilian courts. U.S. lawma...

8. Can Arizona Go It Alone?
(News/Border)

...somebody’s going torush in and fill it. In this case, it’s been the state, but whether the stateactually possesses that power is not certain. This is a topic of nationalconcern, a matter o...

9. Arizona and Sonora Ink Pact to Actually Do Something
(News/Border)

...ents are incompetent by nature, more interested in collecting power and protecting their privileges than in actually accomplishing anything. Conspiracies surely do exist, along with corruption of ever...

10. Dog’s Best Friend
(Sheriff/News)

... a nice run in the Nineties with both rape records and movie roles. Either rashly or stupidly, or both, DMX actually barricaded himself in his Cave Creek home before deciding to come out before SWAT w...