BOLD like a Leopard

Wolverine vs. Sabretooth, we may not know it, but everyone sees themselves on the right side of America's culture wars. (Matt James -- Deviant Art). Part I: What is the alternative media, who loves it, and who loathes it? If you're even reading this segment, it's because we've arrived at a point where the American public is being pulled in a virtual tug of war for its attention. If you want to use a metaphor, a nerdy metaphor, media conglomerates are participating in the electoral process with the same attitude as comic book heroes and villains. Notice that a character like Logan AKA Wolverine must have his own personal nemesis, Victor Creed AKA Sabretooth. Well, everyone in this country today has a view of who their "superheroes" are, and who the "supervillains" are.The problem is that everyone's comic book universe is different. I often get into virtual screaming matches with people over not the topic at hand, but over which source i...

WHERE DO WE EVEN START? New Zealand mountain climber Sir Edmund Hillary is the subject of one of Hillary Clinton's most ridiculous lies; unless you're one of the morons that believes she's incapable of lying. Sometimes the measure of a truly unbelievable liar is that they begin to tell lies about topics that make no sense and seem otherwise irrelevant. This is one. Christopher Hitchens marveled at one point that Hillary Clinton had lied about the fact that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) of New Zealand, the first westerner to scale Mount Everest in 1953. The lie falls apart on even the most elementary inspection: Hillary Rodham was born on Oct. 26, 1947 in Chicago, Ill, the expedition to scale Everest started in March 1953 and reached the summit on May 28 of that year. Over the years, this falsehood has been overshadowed by the Clinton family's far more serious legal issues, as well as the Bosnia sniper fire controversy that cropped...

The GOP is drinking it's well-deserved poison hemlock, and we shouldn't feel sorry. The news media is gnashing its teeth in glee as the Republican Party tears itself apart and then tries to sew itself back together over Donald Trump. I previously wrote two-part piece about the degeneration of the Democrats, and went pretty far in depth. I've also written a four-part piece on Marxism and Black America, and another series on Islamophobia.  THIS WON'T TAKE THAT MUCH READING SPACE. The Republican Party has fucked itself over in the worst way, and if there's one deserving victim from this joke of an electoral process it would be them, and if there's another one it would be the Democratic Party. I'm not saying it to my individual Republican friends necessarily, although maybe you should evaluate the reality of what I'm talking about. Your party leaders (not mine, sorry I have no party allegiance) have been a collection of impotent fools like Michael ...

In the first part of this article, I began to explore the issue that should be on the mouths of millions of Americans. The Democratic Party has been in power for eight years, yet apparently there was only ever one person capable of being its next leader. That's not the way it usually works in a party that claims to represent everyone. I postulated that it was not ONLY the corruption of the process that allowed Hillary Clinton to reach the top. The truth is that not only was she the natural choice for party leader, but the party as a whole HAS no other leaders. Progress ahead. . . straight into a wall In 2004 Barack Obama stole the show at the DNC from an unimpressive mix of speakers headlined by John Kerry. At the time he was on the progressive wing of the party. Today? Well, depends who you ask. -- Photo: CSPAN If in 2010 President Obama's first midterm election the Blue Dog Democrats were sacrificed as a means to ensure party loyalty, Obama's treatment of the ...

I wrote Part I on Sept. 28 and gave Shimon Peres the due courtesy of respectfully honouring his memory, but in my second part I will dispense with that notion, as it's no longer necessary. And you will see why below. A little on my background: As a child growing up with two Israeli American parents I had a bittersweet relationship with Israeli politics. In 1993 when the Oslo Accords were signed, I was in the 3rd grade, but I still remember the euphoria of those Israelis that believed that the wars with the Arabs were approaching their end. I embraced that attitude for a long-time even at a young age, notwithstanding having both divorced parents that did not believe in the peace process. It took many years, many bitter arguments (yes I was a mouthy bastard back then too) and more terror attacks than I can remember for that vision to be revealed to be a mirage. And though I've known if for years and admitted it in conversation, I will say now on the record that I was as wrong...