Robert McDonald is our Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Sec. McDonald is a West Point graduate and served in the 82nd Airborne division, rising to the level of Captain before retiring from the service and eventually becoming the CEO of Procter & Gamble. On January 30th, while accompanied by a CBS news crew with cameras and recording devices on, he briefly spoke to a homeless man, who...
How does Israel find itself in an alliance – temporary, I assure you – with Saudi Arabia, the wahabi Islam capital of the planet? A common enemy, that\’s how. The Jerusalem Post is reporting that Saudi Arabia is floating the idea of allowing use of its air space for Israel to attack Iran. The price? Israel has to promise that it will try to make progress in a...
ESPN, one of the remaining cable venues still willing to put up with Keith Olbermann, has suspended him for the rest of the week because of some nasty, sarcastic tweets he tossed at Penn State students. You can read the exchanges by clicking here. I have to wonder what, exactly, ESPN thought it was getting with Olberman. Didn\’t his experiences at Fox, and MSNBC, and the late...
Well, it only took three years. Today, the eric holder-led Department of Justice gave up. It tried. God knows, it tried. But it could not make a viable case against George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin. Any more than it could make a viable case against officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown. Black lives matter. But sometimes Black lives are...
Did you hear that there were 90 random abductions in Syria? According to Suleiman Al-Khalidi\’s article at Reuters: IslamicState militants have abducted at least 90 people from AssyrianChristian villages in northeastern Syria, a monitoring group trackingviolence in Syria said on Tuesday. TheBritish-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said they carriedout dawn raids on rural...
Apropos of nothing political…. Here is a quick driving insight. If the car in front of you is a van, with: -one or more religious symbols, -one or more “be nice” stickers (e.g. “let\’s put the civil back in civilization” or “remember please and thank you” – like the one that was in front of me before I got to where I\’m...
al sharpton is under attack. But not by the usual suspects; this time it is a Black media group that is claiming he sold out to Comcast for personal benefit: to get his own TV show and lots of $$$$$. Let me explain, via the following excerpt from Eriq Gardner\’s article at hollywoodreporter.com…and please pay special attention to the last part, which I\’ve put...
Today\’s quote comes to us from bill nye, who touts himself as “Bill Nye, the science guy” nye was on Bill Maher\’s Real Time with actor/director Rob Reiner, and the talk turned to whether Israel Jews should consider Israel a “home”. Seems sort of a silly question, doesn\’t it? Wouldn\’t Catholics consider the Vatican a home? ...
Of all the foreign policy disasters visited on us hopelessly incompetent, hopelessly outmatched Barack Obama, and his utterly useless Secretary of State John Kerry, this has to be the single worst. From Bradley Klapper and George Jahn\’s article for the Associated Press, we now find out that a “deal” is being worked out to allow Iran pursuit of nuclear capabilities, based...
At last night\’s Oscars, some of the biggest cheers were given to best supporting actress winner Patricia Arquette, for her impassioned demand that women be compensated equally with men. That\’s hardly a surprise since a lot of people – quite possibly Ms. Arquette among them – are still of the belief that women\’s salaries average just 77 cents on the...
Neil Patrick Harris: I was rooting for him to do well. And he did a lot of the time – a couple of times he was great. But, all in all, too overdone, contrived and snarky for my taste. Best Picture: Neither my wife nor I liked Birdman. Though the acting was excellent, we thought it was an annoying, way-too-cutesy inside joke for people in the entertainment...
Yawn…………….. Another day, another hit piece by the Washington Post on Wisconsin\’s Republican Governor, Scott Walker. And – no surprise – it is being given lead-story status. This time the attack is on Governor Walker\’s terrible mistreatment of unions in Wisconsin. It\’s headline: Walker\’s anti-union...
Let me start with a conclusion: if this were happening in a Republican administration do you think months and months would be going by with virtually no coverage, no investigative reports, no cable news panel discussions, no network news “troubling new information” teasers? Do you think a Republican equivalent of lois lerner would be able to arrogantly take the fifth...
Two left wing web sites, dailykos.com and huffingtonpost.com – probably a great many more – are currently featuring an article by someone named Robert Naiman – the “Policy Director” at something called “Just Foreign Policy” = which appears to be at least as leftward as the two web sites. Its title, “Profiles in Courage: 38* Dems Publicly...
Here is the latest news about ObamaCare. I doubt it will be very reassuring. According to Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar\’s article for the Associated Press: -Our highly efficient, eminently frugal government has given something like 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers the wrong tax information from the government; -This means about 1 million people will see a delay in...
