Today is the day that Louisiana lowers the boom on Mary Landrieu. On election day, Ms. Landrieu got 43% of the vote versus 42% for her Republican opponent, Bill Cassidy – with 14% going to a second Republican, Rob Maness. This precipitated a runoff versus the top two candidates, Landrieu and Cassidy, with polls showing Cassidy – who is now supported by Maness – running...
Today\’s quote comes to us from Governor Jay Nixon of Missouri. Mr Nixon, in explaining why the National Guard troops – troops he himself had called up – were not deployed in Ferguson, on the night the grand jury handed down its decision regarding Officer Darren Wilson, told us: “…what I\’m saying is the plan was that the law enforcement officers who...
Fire o\’ clock in the morning, and there was a traffic jam on the Staten Island Expressway. I can\’t explain that. No one can.
FYI: For the next week or so I will try to blog, but it will be on a limited basis. I hope you miss me. And, if you don\’t, what the %#^&! were you reading this blog for anyway? I will be back to usual by next weekend.
Being 68 years old and living in an upper middle class environment in central New Jersey, I come across a great many women in our circle and among their friends, who absolutely adore Hillary Clinton. They can\’t wait to vote for her in 2016. And that, I think, is one of Ms. Clinton\’s biggest problems. Assuming she runs (and I am not at all convinced she will), Ms. Clinton will...
It isn\’t easy being an AUS White “progressive” liberal these days – i.e. Absolutely, Unconditionally Sympathetic to the premise that your skin color defines you as racist/privileged and you therefore have to accept whatever indignities are tossed your way by Black people from the sharpton/jackson/Farrakhan (SJF) school of “It isn\’t racism...
For whatever it\’s worth… I don\’t know whether General car insurance is any good per se, or compared to other car insurance companies. But after watching years of commercials with people I wouldn\’t insure for anything talking about how easy it was to get insurance there, followed by a cartoon-character “General” driving down the road while a gruff voice...
Today\’s quote comes to us from President Obama – who, years, ago, told us the police acted “stupidly” when, after being called about a robbery in progress, they arresting Henry Louis Gates in front of his home, and who famously told us that “if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon”. Yesterday, talking about a grand jury not indicting on the death of...
I do not know Chris Rock. But I am reasonably confident that he is unhappy with yesterday\’s grand jury decision not to issue any indictments, especially to Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo, for the actions which culminated in the death of Eric Garner. That said, however, Mr. Rock created a video years beforehand which goes a long way toward explaining how it happened. Here is the...
It\’s always nice to see the President of the United States taking our European allies seriously. Which is why I congratulate Barack Obama for naming Colleen Bradley Bell as our new Ambassador to Hungary. Ms. Bell has no diplomatic experience. And, during the confirmation hearing, could not answer simple questions about what she would do differently than the Ambassador she was...
Another grand jury declines to indict police for an incident that ended with a Black man dead. Sounds pretty bad when you say it that way, doesn\’t it? But it\’s not that simple. The man, Eric Garner, was being arrested for selling cigarettes. He argued with the police and then resisted arrest. The officer who took him down – Daniel Pantaleo...
Ken Berwitz Do you have any idea how much taxpayermoney was spent to house and otherwise take care of the illegalminors who flooded across the border because President Obama made itclear most or all of them would be allowed to stay? Well, here\’s a taste for you. And ifit doesn\’t make your blood boil, nothing will. According to documents obtained by (the invaluable) Judicial...
This morning\’s Today Show did a two minute feature on Louis Head, the stepfather of Michael Brown. It told us that charges are being considered because, minutes after he stood in front of an already-inflamed mob and started screaming “burn this bitch down”, members of the mob did just that to businesses, cars, and whatever else they could find to torch on...
Let\’s do a little supposing: -Suppose a Black man was accused of a shooting and killing an uarmed young man. -And suppose White eye-witnesses – a bunch of them – came forth and swore under oath that the Black man killed that young man in cold blood, while he was begging for his life. -And suppose the autopsy results showed that those eye-witness...
Who is Elizabeth Lauten? Who is Terry Bean? Let\’s take them one at a time. Elizabeth Lauten Elizabeth Lauten was, until this week, a staff member for Stephen Fincher, and obscure congressperson from Tennessee. But Ms. Lauten was forced to resign, after writing facebook comments that negatively reflected on President Obama\’s daughters, Sasha and Malia. Lauten...
