Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Free Feast

| June 28, 2010

Maybe we should quit celebrating the 4th of July and start celebrating the 28th of June. Today has been a complex and interesting day at the intersection of America and Freedom.  We witnessed another fundamental right incorporated against the states, an enemy of freedom die, and another enemy of freedom approach the same court that [...]

Cuffing Kagan

| June 11, 2010

The only person more dangerous to freedom than a sitting president is whomever he appoints to the Supreme Court.  After all, president’s have term limits.  We can theoretically impeach a Supreme, but it is damn difficult.  Hence, a free people must keep certain individuals off the bench and out of robes (except for Ruth Bader [...]

Tea Total

| April 15, 2010

The young black gent in the wheelchair raised a fist and shouted “Amen.”  The middle aged Hispanic woman, homemade sign overhead, applauded and said “Get rid of them all!”  The lady with the butch-cut hair, and her girl friend waving a rainbow flag, said “We’ve had enough.”  The teenage girl, bouncing on her toes held [...]

Moral Manslaughter

| March 28, 2010

“Stipulated that it is illegal to kill your congressman,” Bill began using his typical cynical grin and creepy, sinister tone.  “But is it immoral?” I keep Bill as a friend because he forces me to think, often in extremely unpleasant ways.  If you ever meet Bill I encourage you to discuss religion, politics or philosophy, [...]

Insurance Frauds

| December 24, 2009

To my friends and followers in Nebraska: Do not — I repeat do not firebomb Senator Ben Nelson’s home. Other people live there. Frankly, Nelson’s heist of everybody’s taxes is trivial when compared to the massive and anti-constitutional nature of the Senate health care assault. I use the word “anti-constitutional” instead of “unconstitutional” with good [...]