Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Destructive Designers

Guy Smith | October 14, 2011

The Taliban had a blast blowing up non-Islamic icons.
Iconic footage (pun intended) of pre 9/11 Taliban tanks blasting ancient and historically significant Buddha statues demonstrate the demonic desires of those who deign to design societies (a.k.a. politicians and terrorists, if I may be redundant). Their goal was to obliterate knowledge of competing religious beliefs, which [...]

Chavez Shuffle

Guy Smith | September 29, 2011

People with means in socialized medicine countries manage to survive predictably inept government medical care by avoiding the stuff. People without means die.
Little surprise then that socialist madman and full-time maniac Hugo Chavez has suffered kidney failure via government health care, and is now bugging out to a private hospital.
This may be the only instance [...]

International Incivility

Guy Smith | July 9, 2011

Can China take away your civil rights?
Such rhetorical inquiries sound absurd on the surface, but a new constitutional collision course is careening our way, one that pits the perverse perceptions of dictatorships, oligarchies and monarchies against you.
You just knew Hillary Clinton would be at that nexus.
International treaties have the ability to run roughshod over states [...]

Less Moore

Guy Smith | May 11, 2011

Few people can stomach Michael Moore, and from his growing girth I suspect there is little he cannot.
That Moore occupies a rather large portion of my latest book, as well as floor space wherever he goes, derives from his indefatigable ability to be simultaneously bombastic, boorish and a blackguard.  Any honest assessment of Bowling for [...]

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 [...]