Michael Bates

Mike Bates is the author of Right Angles and Other Obstinate Truths. Michael's articles have appeared in the Congressional Record, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Mensa Journal. As a lad, Mike distributed Goldwater campaign literature and since then has steadily moved further to the Right. In 2007, he won an Illinois Press Association award for Original Column.

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The futility of trying to train a pig July 31, 2011
Adhere to Justice Thomas’s excellent guidance and stop wasting our time discussing politics with folks who ain’t never, never, never going to get it
Social Security Checks Won’t Go Out. Again. July 14, 2011
Social Security, the crown jewel of Roosevelt’s welfare schemes, isn’t sustainable
Fifty years ago, Kennedy and Nixon changed our politics forever September 25, 2010
It’s superficial, shallow and foolish. It’s what we expect in presidential debates; the contenders don’t disappoint.
Barack Obama:  GOP Man of the Year September 20, 2010
Today, many Democrats running for Congress are scampering from The Anointed One like Dracula hoofing it away from a crucifix.
The Names Have Been Changed to Protect the Guilty September 12, 2010
Barack Obama would rather talk about his birth certificate than use the word “stimulus.”
Where are the apologies? September 5, 2010
Some recovery summer, huh? Unemployment is rising, Food Stamps usage rising, Medicaid recipients increasing
CNN’s Sanchez Retracts His Claim of a 400 Percent Increase in Presidential Death Threats December 4, 2009
American racism
On Mammogram Guidelines, No Fact Checks for Sebelius or Durbin November 23, 2009
As long as the target is George W. Bush, no fact checking is necessary
If ObamaCare Wins, Obama Loses August 20, 2009
Another Democratic president and another Democratic Congress don’t care that Americans oppose a government health care system
The “most trusted man in America” reconsidered July 19, 2009
Walter Cronkite
I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message May 14, 2009
Politicians with Obama's stamp of approval
Obama’s Poster Children for Tax Reform April 12, 2009
Tax laws are so complicated, so convoluted, so loaded with preferences and exceptions
Obama: Yet Another Sorry Democratic President April 7, 2009
A key component to Obama’s approach is apologetically groveling
CNN’s Roland Martin Misstates Catholic Teaching in Defending Obama March 31, 2009
Notre Dame-Barack Obama controversy, CNN All Bias, All Bull
Why I Quit The Reporter February 2, 2009
Devotion to America or assail my patriotism
Include me out January 21, 2009
Other conservatives may wish the new president success
President Kennedy and the Mob January 14, 2009
Frank Sinatra, Sam “Momo” Giancana and JFK’s father, Joseph Kennedy
Roland will fit right in January 7, 2009
Roland Burris: His lobbying firm, His law firm, His clients, and he has given money to Blagojevich
Requiescat in pace, Uncle Sam December 30, 2008
United States, Free Enterprise, Redistribution of wealth
Roddy, We Hardly Knew Ye December 17, 2008
Chicago Machine, Rod Blagojevich, Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel
Bring back test patterns December 12, 2008
NBC cuts back on programming
Fun and Game Boys at Guantanamo December 3, 2008
Neutral site for potential meeting with Obama and Raul Castro
Slummin’ with Barry November 21, 2008
Valerie Jarrett, Habitat Company, premier property managers provide residents with mice, sewer backups and collapsed roofs
A nation of Peter Pans November 14, 2008
Government, by encouraging people to not assume the responsibilities of adulthood, is fashioning a nation of Peter Pans
Why the race was lost November 6, 2008
John McCain, not conservative enough, The economy, Media bias, Acorn, Fraud
The young will pay for a President Obama October 30, 2008
The young will disproportionately pay the many prices of an Obama presidency.
Birds of a feather Barack together October 24, 2008
Barack Obama associates: Bomb throwers, Charles Manson fans, Communists, America-condemning preachers, women expressing ardent scorn for the United States
Another Great Depression? October 17, 2008
Depression over politics, psychoanalyst, therapists, psychologist
Patriotism, taxes and charity September 24, 2008
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden
The truth is not dishonorable September 18, 2008
So what precisely is “age appropriate” for a kindergartner to learn about the prevention, transmission and spread of HIV?