From Liberators to Liberated: The Ironic Journey of Americans and Gun Rights

Snark Once upon a time, in the golden age of American ingenuity and global responsibility, we held our firearms in such high esteem that we quite literally dropped them from airplanes to aid our friends in fighting the good fight. Yes, during World War II, the U.S. government produced the Liberator .45-caliber pistol, a simple, …

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Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Vol II – Episode 96: Shipping, Over-Regulation, and Thai Boat Noodle Soup

Political Satire:  Having trouble surviving these times?  You’re not alone.  Join us in columnist John F. Di Leo’s exploration of an alternate universe, where we imagine the impossible: Joe Buckstop, an aging, corrupt old fool, somehow becomes president in his basement, and every night, an aide has to bring him his soup and discuss the …

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Flawed as she may be, Harris’s candidacy has transformed the playing field 

President Joe Biden’s calamitous debate performance last month plunged the Democratic Party into a three-week period of utter despondency. With little more than four months left until the election, the party’s standard bearer, the spavined leader they’d rigged the primary to anoint, had crashed and burned on the national stage. Voters had witnessed firsthand what …

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Is The Presidency Outdated?

Harris is a show horse, not a workhorse. She has always enjoyed strutting around in expensive clothes while others praised her.

Article II, Section 1. of the US Constitution clearly states “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” Ever since the Democrats installed, via fraud, a man in the second stage of dementia as “President,” “executive Power” has been vested in an unknown number of unelected bureaucrats. Since January 20, …

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Evening Soup with Basement Joe – Vol II – Episode 95: Constitutions, Elections, and Norfolk Dumpling Soup

Political Satire:  Having trouble surviving these times?  You’re not alone.  Join us in columnist John F. Di Leo’s exploration of an alternate universe, where we imagine the impossible: Joe Buckstop, an aging, corrupt old fool, somehow becomes president in his basement, and every night, an aide has to bring him his soup and discuss the …

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Assassination Attempt-What about that water tower?

On May 23, 2022, the Pentagon had a virtual meeting with Ukrainian defense officials. The event, bedecked with U.S. and Ukrainian flags, was hosted by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, along with Gen. Mark Milley and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia Laura Cooper. And the Ukrainian flags were upside down.[1] I can …

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