//
archives

Presidential Politics

This category contains 180 posts

AN EXCLUSIVE Q. AND A. WITH DONALD TRUMP

Recently Barking in the Dark had a chance to sit down for a one-on-one with Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Here, in its entirety, is the transcription of that interview. Good evening Mr. Trump. We– –Trump Q. Well, to be fair that wasn’t exactly a question – … Continue reading

SO… THIS CORPORATION WALKS INTO A BAR…

Are corporations people? The U.S. Supreme Court says they are, at least for some purposes. And in the past four years, the high court has dramatically expanded corporate rights. It ruled that corporations have the right to spend money in candidate elections, and that some for-profit corporations may, on religious grounds, refuse to comply with … Continue reading

THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE IGNORANT

The ignorant masses who cheer Donald Trump A serial liar and belittler Are the same as the masses who cheered and sieg heiled The sick lunatic Adolf Hitler MAKE AMERIKA HATE AGAIN !   © tony powers and Barking in the Dark, 2016. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission … Continue reading

The Ballad of “Social Issues” And “Socialism” From the Conservative Point of View or: That Bernie is a Commie Pinko But, We’ll Take The Bail-Out

“Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.” ― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right “Social issues” – “Commie” code for basic human need Providing equal aid to all is “Socialism’s” seed There’s just no funds for schools right now we know you understand We need this money … Continue reading

THE BALLAD OF TED CRUZ

In 2013, freshman Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said he had a plan to do something that seemed impossible. He could force President Obama to strip the funding from the landmark health-care law that had come to bear his name — Obamacare — by threatening to shut down the government. Ted Cruz Drunk on the … Continue reading

ANOTHER VIEW FROM THE TEA PARTY: INTELLIGENT FACTION (# 4 in the Satirical Series Emails from the Tea Party)

Contrary to the email you’ve received to date from various other less well-informed members of our great Tea Party, my wife and I are both educated, well-informed university graduates, (me; Oral Roberts University Law School, she; Liberty University Law School). As attorneys, highly educated people, and students of the Constitution of these United States, we … Continue reading