Cowboy Confessional

Guy Smith – writer, songwriter, political provocateur

Public/Private Plunder

| May 13, 2013

TweetWealthy Californians would like to thank you for buying them expensive automobiles. Didn’t know you that generous, eh? In fairly recent political history, left-of-center ideologues and other special needs people have advocated “public/private partnerships”. Once opposed to anything corporate, alleged progressives now embrace funneling tax funds to corporations of every ilk that sustain their ideology, [...]

Spotty Observations

| May 3, 2013

TweetFederal Finances Sometimes it is better to not set expectations instead of setting low ones. The Federal Government is rather expert at the latter, evidenced by the fact that they are once again making payments on the national debt to the tune of an underwhelming $35 billion bucks, which is a mere 0.2% of our [...]

Cunning News Network

| April 22, 2013

Tweet“Most voters still get their news from television,” a Rasmussen survey sadly reported before dropping the big bomb. “[They] consider the news reported by the media generally trustworthy.” Any serious student of media and propaganda rapidly comes to the conclusion that if one strives to be misinformed, they must watch the evening news. This is [...]

Obama’s Shame

| April 19, 2013

Tweet“All that happened today was the preservation of the loophole that let’s dangerous criminals buy guns without a background check, it did not make our kids safer. So all in all this was a pretty shameful day for America,” was Barack Obamas summation of a defeated gun control proposal. “The gun lobby and its allies [...]

Preposterous Politicos

| April 15, 2013

TweetAmerica’s Political Theater of the Absurd has a new set of actors. Completely anticipatable, but always surprising, are outburst from politicos and propagandist. Their campaigns are largely punctuated with rhetorical nonsense which we cooler heads dismiss as partisan positioning more designed to firm a base than sway undecided voters. Yet once in an increasingly frequent [...]