I knew that, at some point, I would be writing a blog like this. It was inevitable. When you have an incident that opportunistic activists declare racist in nature, and the “perpetrator” of this declared racism is not immediately screwed, blued and tattooed, they are going to keep up the pressure until it happens. So it is with the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson...
Earlier today I promised to put up blogs about what kind of ally Israel is to the United States. One demonstration of Israel\’s value to the USA is very easy to show – because the Heritage Foundation has put up a chart that I am copying below. Here is how much money flows from our coffers to the 30 largest developmental assistance (as opposed to military) aid recipients around...
First a reminder of the past: “I think the last thing we need to be concerned about is \’oh, will ebola come to America\’. So let\’s just take that off the table for now and get real” (Laurie Garrett, on the Melissa Harris-Perry show, July 6th) Next, the same Laurie Garrett from an October 2 interview published in the Fresno Bee: TheUnited...
How is the ebola disaster progressing….and how long before it hits the USA big-time? Excerpted from James Rush\’s article at London\’s Independent: Thespread of Ebola across Europe is “quite unavoidable”, theWorld Health Organisation has warned as four people were in hospitalafter a Spanish nurse became the first person known to havecontracted the virus outside...
We have talked a lot about the voter ID issue in here – mostly about how poll after poll shows a large majority of the country agrees there should be a voter ID requirement, and that saying voter ID\’s suppress the Black voter is overtly racist, because it implicitly also says that Black people are less capable than White people of getting a voter ID. But...
How many times does the Obama administration have to jab Israel in the ribs before there is a reaction from someone other than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (who not only is 10 times the head of state Barack Obama will ever be the best day of his life, but matches – maybe outmatches – him intellectually as well)? Here\’s an answer for you, via excerpts from Ari...
Today\’s Quote Of The Day comes to us from former President Bill Clinton. While campaigning for incumbent Democrat Senator Mark Pryor in Arkansas, Mr. Clinton had this to say about the economy: “Theyare really running against the president, aren\’t they? They see thesepolls, the President is unpopular in Arkansas and, yeah, the economyis coming back but nobody...
Most of us are aware of the fact that two NFL players, the Baltimore Ravens\’ ray rice and the Minnesota Vikings\’ adrian peterson, are in trouble this year. rice was caught on camera clocking his then-girlfriend (now wife – which, under the circumstances, is pretty pathetic) and knocking her unconscious in an Atlantic City casino elevator, then dragging her prostrate body out...
Turkey is the latest member of the “coalition” against ISIS. Are you impressed? Don\’t be. Turkey, headed by the Islamist recep tayyip erdogan – who, despite his apparent love of shari\’a law and hatred of Israel is not close to being acceptable to ISIS – is watching the fall of Kobani, a Syrian town right on the Turkish border. erdogan may...
I\’ll make this short and to the point. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear cases from Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin and Indiana, all seeking to maintain their bans on same-sex marriages. Good. It is none of the states\’ business whether a man or woman wants a marital commitment to another person of the same sex. If people who are against same sex marriage...
If the title of this blog were referring to al-qaeda, or ISIS, we\’d all know the answer is “yes”, and be appropriately outraged by it. But what if it were referring to the Center for Disease Control (CDC)? Or to a hospital in Delaware? Would you even be able to come close to the appropriate level of outrage? Read the following article from CBS News\’...
I show political polls in this blog for two reasons: 1) Even if inaccurate, polls done the same way each time, thus with the same inaccuracies each time, can indicate movements in voter sentiment even if the numbers themselves are not correct; 2) People obsess on polls, so I have to. But every now and then I like to show you why I have a problem with them. And here is...
Alison Lundergran Grimes is the Democrat candidate for the U.S. Senate from Kentucky. To win, she has to unseat long-time Republican Senator Mitch McConnell. Not so long ago, the “pundits” (God I hate that word) were telling us that she was positioned to do just that: McConnell was a dinosaur, on his way out. Funny thing, though: the dinosaur seems to have a lot of...
Were the failed, naive policies of Barack Obama why ISIS came into being? No one, of course, can answer that question for sure. But Islamic scholar Raymond Ibrahim has an opinion well worth considering: Obamawas repeatedly warned that withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraqwould lead to something exactly like the Islamic State-with all theatrocities that have become synonymous with that...
The agony must have been excruciating. Andrea Mitchell, as strong an Obama supporter as there is on mainstream media (ok, ok, she\’s in a tie with dozens of others, but a strong supporter anyway) could not fake a smiley-face about the economic news that had just come out – even as a good many of the others seemed just fine with doing so. Here is what Ms. Mitchell had to say on...
