A couple looking for a place to stay in cold weather in a strange city on Dec. 24……….. we see it portrayed everywhere. The governor (Continue Reading)
Pat’s Polemics
On-going brilliance
Make-up of SCOTUS along originalist lines
08/14/2022 Pat Barrett Add CommentI note that only one signer of the Constitution was Roman Catholic. So do the Catholic originalists on the SCOTUS now contend that less than (Continue Reading)
Is this something we should encourage?
06/30/2022 Pat Barrett 1 Commentfully half of Republicans in the former Confederacy (plus Oklahoma) support secession. Where’s my old blue uniform? – recent poll
Guess what, Clarence.
06/25/2022 Pat Barrett Add CommentBreaking news from SCOTUS: As Clarence Thomas was compiling his list of targets for the next session, all dealing with marriage and sexual behavior, Roberts (Continue Reading)
You gotta feel sorry for them…….
10/26/2021 Pat Barrett Add CommentThose poor guys who attacked the Capitol trying to overturn a free and fair election are just running into all sorts of problems. One dropped (Continue Reading)
The Trump Presidential Library
07/25/2021 Pat Barrett 2 CommentsThe Trump Presidential Library is not yet in the offing but it might be on the horizon and what will it look like?A long wall (Continue Reading)
How are those leeches workin’ for ya?
01/29/2021 Pat Barrett Add CommentWe need to revamp our concepts of just desserts. For example, when Todd Aikens said, “Doctors tell me that women have a way of shutting (Continue Reading)
Bring your bullhorn to Trader Joe’s
01/14/2021 Pat Barrett Add CommentAnti-maskers showed up at a Trader Joe’s to demand entry sans mask. The manager said no. They argued, saying they were there just to shop, (Continue Reading)
FDR finesses Pearl Harbor a la Trump
11/21/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentWe are often reminded that the Corona Virus is an assault on America, every bit as serious as 9/11. The death rate is climbing to (Continue Reading)
Poll Worker
09/25/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentI signed up to be a poll worker. Special to working in the East Valley of Maricopa County Arizona: I get to carry an AK47. (Continue Reading)
RBG imitators
09/23/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentSeeing pictures of adorable young girls dressed as Ruth Bader Ginsburg made me think of the dangers of little girls wanting to be like RBG, (Continue Reading)
What else could go wrong?
08/26/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentTicker tapes running out of tape recording the lies at the RNC, another murder of a Black man by the police followed by a deranged (Continue Reading)
The Caravans Are Forming Up!
07/07/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentReports are coming in from border patrol agents that caravans are forming on the southern border of the U.S. Since the caravans consist of U.S. (Continue Reading)
A few Trump goals met
07/02/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentA U.S. border sealed tight? Check. Canada no longer lets Americans cross over into their country. The Canadians are not worried we’ll rape their women (Continue Reading)
An open letter to Clarence Thomas or If You Don’t Get Help…
06/16/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentYou said of the S.C. decision today stating that federal law protests gay and transgendered people from discrimination in employment that when Congress wrote the (Continue Reading)
There’s a taco in my polling booth
03/05/2020 Pat Barrett Add CommentRemember the Trump surrogate who warned us that Mexicans were so entrepreneurial that if we didn’t curtail immigration, there’d soon be a taco truck on (Continue Reading)
Dam it!
11/14/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentAn article on dams in Montenegro resonated with a conversation I had with my friend from India who helped me understand an article in Urdu (Continue Reading)
Communists!
11/14/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentAs the people of Hong Kong continue their protest against being absorbed into and swallowed up by the unjust Chinese judicial system (plus a lot (Continue Reading)
Collectivism, pure and simple
11/02/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentA T-shirt had emblazoned on the back a motto that went something like work for the team, sacrifice for the team, and the team, not (Continue Reading)
Speak English!
11/02/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentRepresentatives of crime victims on the Hopi reservation are coming forth to ask for more help in preventing and solving crimes. One request is for (Continue Reading)
I think Trump may have got this one wrong
10/10/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhen he said the Kurds weren’t with us at Normandie, he may have been right but his intent was to say the Kurds did not (Continue Reading)
You like my daughter?
09/29/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentWhen they break into the top top top top tippy top secret server and find records of Trump’s phone calls, it is possible we may (Continue Reading)
From The Onion
09/24/2019 Pat Barrett Add CommentThe president of the United States cancelled a diplomatic trip to Denmark because the Danes would not sell Greenland to him. Note: To those of (Continue Reading)