It should be obvious to anyone who reads my site that I’m a journalist. It’s not like I just sit down at my computer and write about whatever popped into my head the previous night. Nope, The Strategic Retreat is serious business and I’ll be expecting my Peabody Award any month now. Because of this; I feel that, having ran a negative article on Hillary Clinton, I’m obligated to run a negative article on Barack Obama.

Admittedly it was harder to find negatives on Barack. He really screws up equal coverage by not lying,… Read the rest

Hillary Clinton is a liar. No big news there. Recently she was caught lying about her Bosnia trip and I’m ok with that too. Really, it’s Hillary, I expect her to lie. Remember when she said she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary? That’s just the kind of person Hillary is. And that’s ok.

What isn’t ok is her lying about her recent lies. Lying about lies, that’s just bad form. Hillary has done exactly that. Hillary stated that she “misspoke”, she was “sleep deprived” and that she “say(s) a lot of things, millions of words a… Read the rest

It’s no secret that I hate hippies. A lot of people hate hippies so it’s a fairly safe hatred to have, which is nice. I don’t hate hippies because they’re lazy, drug addled, simpletons. I hate hippies because they’re disingenuous, rude and close minded. Hippies like to think that one of the defining characteristics of being a hippie is being open minded. It isn’t.

Hippies use the term “open minded” to convince you that you should be open minded about things that fall into the hippie sliver; the very very small set of things that hippies believe in… Read the rest

Douglas Adams felt it was important to know where your towel is, being that a towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. That’s all well and good, but I’m not an interstellar hitch hiker. Hell, I’m not even an intracity hitch hiker, I take the bus. Yes, I need a towel to dry myself but not for much else. In the real world you really only need one thing; a pair of shoes. Believe me when I tell you this, you better know damn good and well where your shoes are at.… Read the rest