Today\’s quote comes to us from Joe Scarborough, the increasingly erratic namesake of MSNBC\’s “Morning Joe” show. It seems that, during yesterday\’s confirmation hearing, Ashton Carter – President Obama\’s selection to replace Chuck Hagel as Secretary Of Defense – said he would consider sending arms to the Ukrainians to use...
I want to believe Brian Williams. I am not trying to be sarcastic, I really do. But I don\’t know how I can. As you may be aware, Mr. Williams, the anchor/managing director of NBC Nightly News since 2004, has claimed, for years – and as recently as last Friday – that during the 2003 invasion of Iraq he was on a helicopter that was hit by enemy fire and...
Today\’s quote comes to us from the President of the United States, Barack Obama. Here is what Mr. Obama had to say about the radical Islamists of ISIS burning a captured Jordanian pilot alive: “Should in fact this video be authentic, it\’s just one more indication of the viciousness and barbarity of this organization. And I think we will redouble the vigilance and determination...
Is radical Islam a branch of Islam? President Obama says no. He will not use the term Islam when talking about it. But is he right? Excerpted from John Hall\’s article in the London Daily Mail: Asickening video has emerged showing crowds of Islamic Statesupporters watching the barbaric murder of Jordanian pilotMoaz al-Kasasbeh on specially erected giant screens...
If the final score of a baseball game were 17 – 0, you\’d probably say it was a complete rout. And you, of course, would be right. With that in mind, consider the fact that the Los Angeles Times just published a 17 paragraph article on – by the reporter\’s own admission – a dozen people protesting the proposed canonization of of Father Junipero Serra, who is...
Apropos of nothing political….. I like hot breakfast cereal. Wheatena is a personal favorite, but some mornings it\’s too heavy…plus, my wife has told me what she thinks it looks like in terms that, sanitizing this as best I can, do not enhance its ingestive appeal. Farina, by contrast, is lighter, easier to get down, and my wife has not offered an opinion...
Now that it turns out ISIS – currently in control of enough of Syria and Iraq to declare its own country – killed the Jordanian pilot and the Japanese newspeople before demanding hundreds of millions of dollars in ransom for them, remind me: is this the group President Obama told us was virtually decimated or the one he called the jayvee squad. Oh, that\’s...
Does anyone – besides Barack Obama, his acolytes, and the low-information crowd that is – think the bogus 5.6% unemployment level being floated these days means anything positive? I would hope not. But just in case, Jim Clifton, the Chairman and CEO of Gallup, has written a terrific essay showing it up for the rancid pile of mung that it is. You can read Mr...
What do we lose if we lose Israel? Here\’s a bit of insight, excerpted from Daniel Koren\’s article at shalomlife.com: We\’veseen a smorgasbord of breakthrough Israeli innovations over the pastfew years, as Startup Nation continues to rule the hightech industry,not to mention the science, health, and medicinal marijuanaindustries. Lastyear, wereported on the NaNose...
…in the form of a graphic I just got from my facebook pal, Al Ferrer: Funny and true. Great combination.
Today\’s quote comes to us from the nothing-if-not-entertaining michael moore. As you may be aware, when American Sniper came out, and immediately became a huge hit – the kind which moore will never see in his lifetime – he went on twitter and denounced Chris Kyle, the film\’s real-life main character, as a “coward”. Then, when people from both...
What would you say about a supposedly neutral government inquiry being conducted into the actions of President Obama, if one of the participants were Mitt Romney\’s campaign manager? You probably wouldn\’t be too impressed with that claim of neutrality, would you? With that in mind, please read the opening paragraphs of an article put out today by the...
If American Sniper had done $31 million in its first weekend of general release, it would have been called a big hit. In fact, American Sniper did $31, million in its third weekend of general release, despite competing with Super Sunday. How good was this? Well, the next two highest-grossing films of the weekend, Paddington and Project Almanac, both did about $8.5 million. To...
Why do I – a supporter of unions per se – rail against teachers\’ unions? Why do public school children in New York City do so poorly? Why is this true of so many other major cities around the country as well – (e.g. Chicago makes New York look good by comparison…and D.C. makes Chicago look good)? Here\’s a little insight for...
Oil prices are coming back….somewhat. Last week West Texas Intermediate (WTI) had dropped below $45 a barrel. Right now it is over $49. Let\’s see if this is little boomlet continues, or turns back into the bustlet it has been since the summer.
