Ken Berwitz Every two weeks, the Media Research Center (MRC) puts up a blog called “Notable Quotables” – a list of what its staff considers the most asinine partisan quotes our wonderful “neutral” mainstream media and assorted leftward show hosts have made during that period. The latest edition is especially meaty. So I am posting this link for you...
Ken Berwitz In case you think the New York Times is the only one…. Here is the first part of yesterday\’s editorial from the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, which talks about an organization apparently near and dear to its heart: #blacklivesmatter. The Post-Dispatch\’s wit and wisdom is in rust, and my comments are in blue. You decide who is making more...
Ken Berwitz What a nice day we had yesterday!! We drove into Manhattan. The weather was perfect and traffic was no problem, which started us off in a good mood. Then we found a parking space one block from our son\’s apartment on the West Side, which put us in an even better mood. He had been out of town the the night before and was not home yet. So we walked up to Lincoln...
Ken Berwitz A quick question about national cultures: What do you think people from a third world country, who work long hours for almost no money, live in a hovel (or less), and struggle just to feed, clothe and shelter their families – often with no electricity and running water… …would think about a culture with values that make television shows like “Say Yes To The...
Ken Berwitz Today\’s paragraphs come to us from Tom Blumer, writing for newsbusters.org. Mr. Blumer quotes an Associated Press article which gushes over how low the federal deficit has gotten…. ….but leaves out a little comparative fact which, evidently, it does not want readers to think about: Through the first 11 months of this budget year endingSept. 30, the...
Ken Berwitz A quick question for people who are outraged by Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis, who went to jail (and, I suspect, will go to jail again) because, based on her religious beliefs – the newly found ones that materialized after three divorces and two out-of-wedlock children – she is ignoring the law and refusing to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples: Do you have...
Ken Berwitz How did Hillary Clinton sleep last night? The answer may be “not very well at all. Read the beginning of Rosalind Helderman, Tom Hamburger and Carol Leonnig\’s article for the Washington Post and I doubt you\’ll wonder why: The company that managed Hillary Rodham Clinton\’s privatee-mail server said it has “no knowledge of the server...
Ken Berwitz Israel, the one and only Jewish state, does not have a lot of allies. But it is acquiring a fascinating new influx of them….as an unintentional consequence of the nuclear “deal” cooked up by President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry. I blogged about this likelihood over a half year ago and several times since. But now I am seeing it at a...
Ken Berwitz Just days after Democrats in the senate have made good and sure that the nuclear “deal” President Barack Obama and Secretary Of State John Kerry cooked up will go through, Iran – no doubt laughing all the way – informs us of how much uranium they really have. Excerpted from Bozorgmehr Sharafedin\’s article at Reuters.com: Iran has discovered...
Ken Berwitz Some years ago – ok, a lot of years ago – I was a student at Queens College, City University of New York. One day, between classes, I went into the men\’s room, closed a stall behind me, and had a seat. Then I started laughing. The reason for my laughter was that someone had drawn an arrow pointing to the toilet paper and wrote “Queens College...
Ken Berwitz How frustrating it is that I do not have a transcript to cut and paste from. I just spent the last 15 – 20 minutes watching Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on CSPAN, at the National Press Club, talking about the nuclear “deal” and how to handle Iran, Syria and ISIS. No one, and I do mean no one, talks more intelligently about this than Senator Graham. To...
Ken Berwitz Here is a quick question for the “Department of Justice” (I put this in quotation marks because I question it as a valid definition under eric holder, and now Loretta Lynch): If, as you have just ruled, it is perfectly OK for Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton to remove her personal emails from her personal server, what about the fact that she was using her personal...
Ken Berwitz Did you hear the one about the 13 year old boy who, on a dare, kissed a 14 year old girl? Well, you\’re going to. Because the 13 year old boy is being charged with assault. ASSAULT. And, no, I am not making this up.. From Robby Soave\’s article at reason.com: A Pikesville, Maryland, 13-year-old will be charged withsecond-degree assault for...
KenBerwitz Ifever a city needed some good news, Baltimore is that city. And,finally, there is news about the city which, potentially, could be good. MayorStephanie Rawlings-Blake, you see, has announced that – in a sudden about-face- she has decided not to run for re-election. Herreason? “It was a very difficult decision,but I knew I needed to spend time, the remaining 15 months...
Ken Berwitz Today\’s paragraph comes from the blogger who calls him/herself “sundance”, at conservativetreehouse.com. He/she wins for putting together a concise little synopsis of how Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, once considered a major candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, has pretty much fallen off the edge of the earth. In his latest blog, after...
