Author Archive for Michael R Shannon

What Is It About ‘Stereotype’ that the Tea Party Doesn’t Understand?

By Michael R Shannon on May 24, 2013 in 2014 Election News, Blogs, Humor/Satire, Michael Shannon, Opinion, Politics, Religion, Traditional Values, War on Women

Too bad Tea party types are such ingrates. Now that the mainstream media (MSM) is finally starting to cover the IRS political scandal, you’d think the Tea party would go out of its way to reward the media for emerging from its Obama–induced coma. Consider what would have happened if there had been four deaths [...]

The Bugs are Back

By Michael R Shannon on May 16, 2013 in Agriculture, Humor/Satire, Michael Shannon, Opinion

People in the Washington, DC area like to worry. Part of it’s because leftists are required to show “concern” about the darnedest things and part of it is because a large government workforce has to discover something to do or at least find a way to look busy. For example, the National Weather Service suffered [...]

Senate GOP Supports Remote Control Taxation

By Michael R Shannon on May 09, 2013 in 2014 Election News, Blogs, Humor/Satire, Michael Shannon, Opinion, Politics

The next time you see any of the following Senate Republicans: Lamar Alexander (TN), Roy Blunt (MO), John Boozman (AR), Richard Burr (NC), Saxby Chambliss (GA), Dan Coats (IN), Thad Cochran (MS), Susan Collins (ME), Bob Corker (TN), Mike Enzi (WY), Deb Fischer (NE), Lindsey Graham (SC), Chuck Grassley (IA), John Hoeven (ND), Johnny Isakson [...]

It’s Always Christmas If You’re a Politician

By Michael R Shannon on May 03, 2013 in 2014 Election News, Humor/Satire, Michael Shannon, Money, Opinion, Politics

What is it about an elected official that compels rich people to want to give him gifts? Do they look needy? Hungry? Depressed? Is there a secret gift registry of which I’m unaware? Could it be a mentoring program where plutocrats adopt a middle–class governor or attorney general and show them how capitalism has paid [...]

Marco Rubio and the Magic Beans

By Michael R Shannon on Apr 28, 2013 in 2014 Election News, A Broken System, featured opinion, immigration, Michael Shannon, Opinion, Politics

Shortly after last year’s presidential defeat and at the beginning of the Great Republican Panic of 2013, I wrote here about what a bad idea morally and legally amnesty for illegal aliens is. Guess what? It still is. In a sane universe “immigration reform” would be specifically designed to benefit the citizens of the nation [...]

The Interview: Terry McAuliffe & the Boston Attack

By Michael R Shannon on Apr 18, 2013 in Blogs, Gun Rights, Humor/Satire, Michael Shannon

This post is intended as satire, any likeness to real or imagined people is unintended. This is a work of fiction (A source within the McAuliffe for Governor campaign leaked a copy of this transcript from an interview with a New York Times Sunday Magazine reporter. I felt I owed it to my readers to [...]

Umbrella Organizations Always Leave Taxpayers Wet

By Michael R Shannon on Apr 12, 2013 in Blogs, Gun Rights, Humor/Satire, Michael Shannon, Opinion, Politics

Sen. Tom Coburn (R–OK), a truly great American, has released his annual report on waste, duplication and redundancy in federal programs. Evidently inspecting catfish is both a vital and difficult task, because it currently takes three different federal agencies to do the job. And as soon as someone can reliably map the location of catfish [...]

A Voter in the Hand Is Worth Two in the Focus Group

By Michael R Shannon on Apr 04, 2013 in 2014 Election News, A Broken System, Humor/Satire, immigration, Michael Shannon, Opinion, Politics

It’s remarkable that the political party allegedly joined at the hip with Big Business has such an incredible problem with a basic operational task like marketing. Somehow when it came time to divvy up the commercial sector, the Republicans got all the boring accountants, while the Democrats scooped up all the cool art directors. Confining [...]

Too Many Battles, Not Enough Bible

By Michael R Shannon on Mar 21, 2013 in Michael Shannon, Opinion, Religion, Traditional Values

Any television show that simultaneously confounds the pagans and the heretics can’t be all bad. But there’s a basic flaw in the History Channel’s The Bible that makes it hard for the cultural Christian or the spiritual seeker to absorb the message. This is not to say the program isn’t popular. In fact, it’s wildly [...]

CPAC 2013 Stands With Rand

By Michael R Shannon on Mar 15, 2013 in 2014 Election News, Featured Posts, Michael Shannon

The 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held this week in National Harbor, just across the river from Washington, DC, did not appear to be a depressed gathering of Republicans and conservatives still reeling from last November’s presidential loss. There was friendly rivalry between supporters of Sen. Rand Paul (R–KY) and Sen. Marco Rubio [...]

In the MSM Every Silver Lining Is Obscured by a Cloud

By Michael R Shannon on Mar 08, 2013 in Blogs, Humor/Satire, Michael Shannon, Opinion, Politics, Self-sufficiency

I’ve about decided that reading three newspapers a day, plus Newsmax.com may be bad for my emotional health. Normally the day starts with the Washington Examiner, a fine tabloid with a conservative editorial page. I like the Examiner even though the paper is evidently unaware the county were I live — Prince William — exists, [...]

We Were Sequestered Before It Was Cool

By Michael R Shannon on Mar 01, 2013 in Humor/Satire, Michael Shannon, Opinion, Politics

The Ministry of Truth for the Obama administration has been experiencing some traction problems in the DC area. The scare stories regarding the collapse of the air travel system in the event of sequester are simply not motivating people in spite of the fact the Mainstream Media (MSM) has dutifully spread the word. We are [...]

The Only Good ‘Redskin’ Is a Deleted ‘Redskin’

By Michael R Shannon on Feb 22, 2013 in Blogs, featured opinion, Michael Shannon, Opinion, Politics

The Thought Police at the Washington Post are on the warpath once again over the Washington Redskins nickname. In spite of the fact it would cost owner Daniel Snyder heap–big wampum to change the name, they say it is bad medicine and it has to go. They are also angry about calling people who sell [...]

Now Soliciting Bids for the G.I. Jane Combat Hall of Fame

By Michael R Shannon on Feb 13, 2013 in Blogs, Humor/Satire, Michael Shannon, National Defense and Military, Politics, Traditional Values

It was a coincidence ripe with irony. On the same day the main section of the Washington Post was trumpeting Sec. of Defense Leon Panetta’s decision to allow women in combat, the sports section was featuring an analysis of the “epidemic” of torn knee ligaments in women’s basketball and soccer. Reporter Preston Williams wrote: “Young [...]

Constituent Service Gone Wild

By Michael R Shannon on Feb 09, 2013 in Blogs, Humor/Satire, Michael Shannon, Opinion

Football fans everywhere are indebted to Virginia Delegate Joe May (R–Leesburg) whose invention of the electronic first down marker added much needed precision to watching the game on TV. Unfortunately, May’s understanding of the free market is much less precise and is in danger of throwing taxpayers for a significant loss. According to Liz Essley [...]