About That RNC Powergrab…
(Based on my Hump Day Lunch Break Rant – Twitter hashtag #HDLBR) As a precursor to today’s Hump Day Lunch Break Rant, you should read these items: On Power, A Three-Part Series, & On “Infighting.” Yesterday, there was much skullduggery afoot at RNC 2012. There’s even a Twitter hashtag for it: #RNCPowergrab. So, what’s the [...]
UPDATE: Early 90′s Reporters Got O’s Birthplace Right While Lit Agency and Others Didn’t?
As was reported last week at Breitbart.com, the 1991 literary agency listing for President Barack Obama had him as ”Kenyan-born”. Also reported at Breitbart was the fact that the agency’s “fact-checking” error was listed on their website up until 2007. While this did unleash another round of “birtherism”, we here at The Trenches are deciding [...]
On “Infighting”
I’ve heard certain people bemoaning “infighting” for a long time. Years, in fact. I opined on it, at length, back in 2010, and I’d urge everyone to take a look at that piece, which is still relevant in many ways, even today. Lately, I’ve seen this sentiment from a very small group on Twitter, claiming [...]
Con-nonymous? A Foolish Reporter’s Experiences With Anonymity, Identity, and Online Conservative Political Activism
“…is that it’s anonymous, and it has no memory. There’s no archive, there are no barriers, there’s no registration…That’s led to this discussion that’s completely raw, completely unfiltered.” –Christopher Poole, founder of 4chan.org, on the popularity of his site “You have one identity. The days of you having a different image for your work friends [...]
Muslims Film the Beheading of Another Christian Convert
From the Gatestone Institute: A young man appears held down by masked men. His head is pulled back, with a knife to his throat. He does not struggle and appears resigned to his fate. Speaking in Arabic, the background speaker, or “narrator,” chants a number of Muslim prayers and supplications, mostly condemning Christianity, which, because [...]
Obama’s Latest Fundraising Revelation – “This is critical… [you stupid broke-ass leftist donors]“
Obama is still getting outspent 2 to 1 on the air? Wait… capitalists have 2x as much money as leftists who would support Obama? Shocking! Maybe leftists can introduce legislation to limit a capitalist’s income to make things more “fair” when competing in the political arena with welfare recipients whom the capitalists already support. Wait… [...]
Internet Tricksters Turning Up the Heat On Conservatives?
With the Presidential election less than 90 days away now, it seems as though, well, pretty much everything is approaching a fevered pitch. Here in the world of conservative Internet political activism, one of the ways the heat seems to be increasing is through Internet tricks and pranks. I myself felt the brunt of the [...]
Celebrity One-Percenters Create Website to Remind Us How Awesome Obama Is
There’s a new website out there aimed at trying to restore the flagging spirits of Obama supporters, with the intent being “(to) remind (his supporters) of all he has accomplished, and all he will do if given another term. They asked a wide range of cultural figures to explain why they’re voting for Obama [...]
One Woman’s Quest To Educate Society About Sikhs (And Cultures Other Than Their Own)
Let me preface the rest of this article with the fact that there is absolutely nothing wrong with Muslims. I call many friends. And see them as family. Had this tragedy happened at a mosque, it would have been equally awful. I seek not to compare or contrast the two faiths. Rather point out a [...]