Truthers, Birthers…and Racers

By Byron Harvey / February 17, 2010 /

I think it’s time to introduce a new word into our political discourse to designate a very real, and dangerous, group of fringe wingnuts.  We’ve got the “Truthers”, crazies who think that the U.S. government was behind 9/11.  Incidentally, Glenn Beck did the citizens of Texas a real service this past week when he exposed…

Scott Brown is Not My Messiah

By Byron Harvey / January 20, 2010 /

We have witnessed, as all the pundits are telling us and as I agree, perhaps the most shocking political upset of my lifetime: Scott Brown, a relatively unknown Republican, has won a five-point-margin victory over a well-heeled, well-known (in Massachusetts) Democrat to claim the seat filled for nearly a half-century by the gargantuan posterior of…

Lying Liars, and the Lies They Tell

By Byron Harvey / September 4, 2009 /

To paraphrase that great senator from Minnesota…ahem. This is a post about blatant lies that are sometimes told by people who are not bound by the facts; i.e., liberals. Actually, let me digress and say that there are some honorable liberals who represent, in my judgment, a minority, but who are people of real integrity…

Mindless Liberal Smear Machine: Janeane Garofalo

By Byron Harvey / April 21, 2009 /

Egged on by the pseudo-journalist sycophant Keith Olbermann, here’s a great example of the mindless, baseless name-calling that exemplifies the loony left these days: Now, granting the fact that truth has never been a significant concern of the loony left (and by the way, I label the Garofalo/Olbermann/Michael Moore faction the “loony left”; I consider…