Lux Americana

It’s been a rough couple of years for you, hasn’t it?  Why don’t you relax for a few… grab a cold beer, smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em… maybe talking about it will help.
You see, we really do care about you.  You’re our brothers and sisters, and while we may fight sometimes, we’re all Americans [...]

It seems that lately, any time the president or first lady of the United States touches anyone, the media has some kind of creepy seizure.
First, there was Michelle Obama touching the Queen!!  Oh dear heavens!
Then there was President Obama’s “servile, scraping” handshake/bow with the Saudi King.
If you’re sympathetic to Newt Gingrich, you were no doubt [...]

Finding themselves bereft of any new ideas or politically-savvy leadership, the conservative movement is now attempting to undermine President Obama’s post-partisan vision by reviving the culture wars.  After the recent passage of anti-gay marriage legislation in California with proposition 8, the “traditional marriage” crowd seems emboldened.
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is currently running this [...]

Both houses of Congress passed budgets very similar to President Obama’s blueprint this week, despite a grand total of zero Republican votes in both the House and the Senate.
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, apparently unaware the bill passed, applauded what he called a “bipartisan rejection of a partisan bill,” echoing the GOP line from when [...]

Republican pollster Whit Ayres has described the GOP as having “just entered the wilderness,” according to Politico.
“We’re going to wander around there for a little while before coming back stronger than ever,” Ayres continues.
For my part, I’m not so sure about that “stronger than ever” bit.  Apparently, neither is anyone else.  A reader poll attached [...]