Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Unsupervised Thinking

Guy Smith | May 15, 2011

A number of inconvenient truths, along with leaked emails and computer source code, rendered Al Gore’s fatalistic forecasts fragile.  Barack Obama’s continuing adoration of Keynesian economic theory has earned him the distrust of everyone waiting in an unemployment line.  We all flinched at the thought of Larry Craig’s public bathroom tap dancing and nobody believed [...]

Snippet #1 from Shooting The Bull

Guy Smith | May 3, 2011

“Why then does Sarah Brady and nearly everyone else campaigning for gun control lie?  For the same reason that men lie to their wives about matrimonial infidelity and politicians lie about … well, everything. She is possessed with the same motivation as a jewel thief who lies to the police as they drag him away [...]

Banning Buncombe

Guy Smith | May 1, 2011

Shooting The Bull, a field guide to identifying political lies in real-time, launches today. Not only does the book entertain and educate, it drives a long and rusty nail into the coffin lid of the gun control movement.

Schumer Subterfuge

Guy Smith | April 27, 2011

Chuck Schumer and Michael Bloomberg share common traits, and none of them are savory.

Mexican Statistical Standoff

Guy Smith | April 5, 2011

If irony and serendipity married, they would take up residence in Washington D.C. to have oodles of congenial company.
Today’s example of how coincidence comically collides comes in part from the Clueless California Caliph, Senator Dianne Feinstein.  After a small handful of occasionally antique American firearms were found in Mexico, Dianne declared “It is unacceptable [...]