The Daily Gouge

It’s Thursday, October 9th, 2014…and here’s The Gouge! First up, courtesy of the WSJ, this snippet from Ronald Reagan’s August 1980 address to the VFW convention provides a quick reminder how far the quality of American leadership has fallen since his days in the Oval Office: Soviet leaders talk arrogantly of a so-called “correlation of […]

It’s Tuesday, October 7th, 2014…but before we begin, yet another example of a campaign ad, the central theme of which the GOP should be rolling out across the country… …particularly as the message is applicable in every single tightly-contested Senate race.  Why on earth AREN’T they?  You’ll have to tell us, ‘cuz we sure as […]

It’s Thursday, October 2nd, 2014…but before we begin, one quick cartoon which, while almost making us wetting our pants… …required an rewrite prior to distribution to nationwide outlets.  Cartoonist Jerry Holbert saw a tube of children’s watermelon toothpaste, and the flavor stuck with him. Reed Jackson, associate editor at Holbert’s syndicator, saw the potentially racial subtext the […]

It’s Monday, September 29th, 2014…but before we begin, a few brief observations on current events precisely reflecting the state of Progressive politics in America. First, Ezra Klein, one truly educated idiot, continues to defend the manifestly indefensible: “On the whole, though, costs are lower than expected, enrollment is higher than expected, the number of insurers […]