Incontinent Marines Are Unintentional Anti-Heroes

I posed the question recently, more or less seriously: “If a tree falls in the forest, and no one uploads the video, does it make a sound?” The infamous video of four American Marines urinating on the dead bodies of (presumed) combatants, uploaded to LiveLeak.com… (live leak, get it?), has certainly resulted in plenty of noise, much of it unintelligible.

Buddy Roemer: The Best Republican Presidential Candidate You’ve Never Heard Of

Imagine a Republican candidate for President who truly has all the right stuff:

• Looks the part like Mitt Romney, but not a mealy-mouthed animatronic prig.
• Silver-haired, silver-tongued devil like Newt Gingrich, but not a delusional windbag.
• Defender of individual rights like Ron Paul, but not a torch-waving anarchist.
• Experienced legislator like Rick Santorum, but not a rigid, moralizing dandy.
• Shoot-from-the-hip Governor like Rick Perry, but not a stammering loose cannon.
• Consistent message like Michele Bachmann, but not a gaffe-prone idiot.
• Successful businessman like Herman Cain, but not a womanizing puff-talking wanker.

Ron Paul in One Lesson: A Primer on Libertarianism

Quadrennial asterisk Ron Paul is once again displaying his Libertarian Wolf Boy exhibit at the Republican freak show, again prompting puzzled onlookers to remark "oh yeah, I remember that guy," and "what the hell is he doing up there?" Now that Paul has risen from novelty candidate to so-called "top tier" status, his libertarian principles arguably merit closer examination before being mothballed for another four years.