Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Democrat Dubai

Guy Smith | November 28, 2009

I’ll confess to feeling little grief over an oil soaked Arab nation being in financial straights.
Join the party Achmed.
News comes today that a state run/financed/manipulated company in the United Arab Emirates (literally, a cabal of chieftains) is in fiscal fuss. Dubai World is a company that invests UAE petrodollars, and has done both the [...]

Holder Hold’em

Guy Smith | November 20, 2009

A military tribunal asserts jurisdiction over persons held in military custody and stand accused of being enemies who have violated a law of war.
Incompetency can be a collective trait as well as an individual affliction.
Take the case of Eric Holder, the temporary attorney general in the temporary Obama administration. In the world of constitutional [...]

Obama Bombers

Guy Smith | November 14, 2009

It bears repeating: Barack Obama is not the brightest bulb on the homo sapiens marquee.
Listening to local liberals one would think Obama was equal parts Einstein and da Vinci and that the next epoch of enlightenment will soon radiate from any of his immaculate orifices. Fact is Obama’s depth of policy knowledge is [...]

Afterlife Tooned

Guy Smith | November 8, 2009

It is good to have low friends in high places, and high friends in low places. I doubt Chris Muir ever gets high, and his humor is never low, thus he cannot be pigeon holed … kinda like former cowboys living in San Francisco. Common classification schemes just don’t work.
Grateful I am though [...]

Pointed Perspective

Guy Smith | November 6, 2009

One reason to read Charles Krauthammer is that the man rapidly gets to the point while providing previously obscure perspective.  He writes about Obama’s election:
2008 was a historical anomaly. A uniquely charismatic candidate was running at a time of deep war weariness, with an intensely unpopular Republican president, against a politically incompetent opponent, amid the [...]