A STUDY IN HOW QUICKLY FORTUNES CAN CHANGE….

Suppose you were a window washer, working on the 11th floor of abuilding, and you fell from your scaffold. If someone could interview you on the way down, and asked if youconsidered this your lucky day, I\’m guess you would probably respondin the negative. But would you be right? From CBSNews – San Francisco: Awindow washer remains in critical but stable condition after fallingfrom...

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THE IRS SCANDAL: UPDATE

With so many Obama administration scandals, and so many examples of ineptitude and incompetence, it is not easy to keep up with them all.  But I\’m trying. Here is the latest on the IRS scandal, excerpted from Susan Ferrechio\’s article for the Washington Examiner: Upto 30,000 missing emails sent by former Internal Revenue Serviceofficial Lois Lerner have been recovered by the...

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THE QUOTE OF THE DAY

Today\’s quote comes to us from George Kenneth (G.K.) Butterfield, Democrat congressperson from North Carolina and new chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus. Here is what Mr. Butterfield has to say about the upcoming (almost certainly this weekend) grand jury decision on whether to indict Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson for shooting and killing Michael...

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THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION\’S WAR ON BLACK WORKING PEOPLE

For years, I have been blogging about the disastrous affect that handing amnesty to millions of illegal aliens will have on Black employment.  Want examples?  Click here, here and here for just three. Well, now Barack Obama has done it.  And that nightmare for Black working people has come true. But, this time, instead of telling you about it in my own words, I think...

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THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION\’S WAR ON BLACK CHILDREN

When President Obama took office, one of his first orders of business was to end Washington D.C.\’s Opportunity Scholarship program., which gave children – the vast majority of them Black – an opportunity to escape public schools that were not teaching them…and in which academically motivated children were targeted for being, among other things...

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FERGUSON & HERCULEAN RESTRAINT

How would you like to have been a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri for the last three or so months? Trust me, the job description is not like it would be for most small surburban towns. Since Michael Brown was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson, Ferguson\’s police – I\’m talking about the rest of the force which had nothing to do with that confrontation – have...

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THE QUOTE OF THE DAY

Today\’s quote comes to us from Newt Gingrich: former speaker of the house and architect of the “Contract With America” that propelled Republicans into control of both houses after the 1994 elections…but who has had precious few political victories since. Well, he scores with this one.  Here is Mr. Gingrich, on CNN, as part of last night\’s Anderson Cooper-led...

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CNN: A CASE STUDY OF ACCOMPLICE MEDIA AT WORK

Yesterday President Obama made a speech in which he unilaterally declared a form of amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. Here is CNN\’s headline and sub-head for this story: Onimmigration, a tale of two presidents WHquit waiting for House to act When George W. Bush couldn\’t get an immigration overhaul through the Senate, he gave up. When Barack Obama couldn\’t get a bill...

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THE LATEST LOUISIANA RUNOFF POLL

A week before the November 4 election, Rasmussen Research, had incumbent Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu 7% ahead of Republican challenger Bill Cassidy.  Ms. Landrieu won that round by 43% – 42%, with Tea Party Republican Rob Maness at 14%. Now, with a little more than two weeks before the two-person runoff election, Rasmussen has Cassidy ahead 56% to 41% – a margin of...

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THE BEST MSNBC\’S GOT

I grant you that it isn\’t much of a contest, but…. ….Steve Kornacki is the best of the MSNBC bunch.  Though politically leftward, he really does try to present both sides of things.  Which is a far cry from most of what passes for talent over there.

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THE OVER AND UNDER ON LIES

Quick:  which happened more?  Visits to the White House by jonathan gruber – the developer of ObamaCare\’s economic model who no one in the administration remembers to be anything but an inconsequential hanger-on… …or video taped instances in which President Obama specifically told us that the amnesty he is going to announce tonight is against the law and...

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THE PARAGRAPH OF THE DAY

Today\’s paragraph comes to us from Hans von Spakovsky\’s article at dailysignal.com, in which he makes mincemeat of the claims that the kind of amnesty President Obama is about to foist on us for millions of illegal aliens is nothing different than what President\’s Reagan and Bush did. Please use this link to read Mr. von Spakovsky\’s entire article, in which he shows...

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BILL COSBY: WHEN HIS PROBLEMS STARTED

Remember Bill Cosby?  He used to be revered by just about everyone.  A brilliant entertainer.  A man who used his Ph.D in education to avidly promote educational betterment of children, particularly Black children.  A loving husband and father, married 50 years.  When did it all fall apart? If you answer that it started with the current spate of women coming forth and...

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THE LATEST AL SHARPTON SCANDAL

As any regular reader of this blog knows, I have written many times about the ugly, sordid history of al sharpton – a career racist, anti-Semite, Black supremacist, serial deadbeat fraud. Despite this background, which would have disqualified just about anyone else from a position of prominence several times over, sharpton is also a TV show host on MSNBC and, more importantly, a...

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