Front page Archive Why Arlen? Arlen is the TV home of "King of the Hill." It's a small conservative town that is threatened with ruination on a regular basis by twig boys, enviro wackos, diversity nuts, "PC" police and other ivory tower liberals. I like to think of Arlen as a metaphor for this here great nation of ours.

Monday, November 08, 2004 Posted 9:25 PM by Hank MANDATES: THEN AND NOW Then (1992): Time magazine's cover declares Bill Clinton's forty-three percent of the vote a "Mandate for Change". Now (2004): The media struggles to convince us that George W. Bush's nearly four million vote margin of victory is no mandate. In other words, a clear majority, fifty one percent, counts for less than a minority, forty-three percent. Must be some more of that "fuzzy math." Home