Archives for July, 2009

Many of you have spent an uncomfortable evening listening to a group of lefties rail on about how Republicans are stupid, evil, and still ruining the world. As people in the majority often are, they were completely oblivious to the possibility that not everyone shares their views. To be sure, any individualist or capitalist who [...]

Last Saturday, Shout Bits passed the one year milestone, and this blog would like to thank everyone who has read and commented on the work. About 7500 people read the blog over this time – not too shabby for a fledgling effort from a no-name author. Interestingly, the most popular entries were not the ones [...]

CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite died yesterday, so it is this blog’s duty to tread lightly on his memory. His moniker as the most trusted man, however, speaks volumes about the naivety of Americans in the 1960′s and the limited news sources then available. While this blog hopes to tread lightly, the mainstream media rarely returns [...]

Questioning a religion’s underpinning can be hazardous. Best not to suggest Mohammed was a war monger, or that Buddha was awfully fat for someone so perfectly detached, or that Al Gore is a crackpot. To Obama fanatics, the gospel truth is that he is a master orator. Even his political enemies concede this point, but [...]

V.P. Biden famously declared paying higher taxes is a patriotic duty. Lou Dobbs bombasts that relocating a company outside the US is treason. Pres. Obama wants a special tax on US companies with foreign operations. These three, along with many others, reflect an ugly conceit that the US government is somehow an institution greater than [...]