Two salient facts about the September 7 Republican presidential debate. *Texas governor Rick Perry is said not to be a strong debater. *The debate should have called the ‘Get Perry’ Debate because of the focus on Perry by the three liberal moderators, Brian Williams of NBC, John Harris of Politico and Jose Diaz-Balart, a hispanic commentator from MSNBC who asked questions about immigration as if | Read More »
It hardly seems possible that the September 11 attacks of 2001 are ten years in the past. Who could forget where they were when they heard that “a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center”. And then to watch the imponderable unfold before our eyes on a crisp Autumn day that is called ‘severe clear’ by airlines. And to see the images repeated over | Read More »
With the coming of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, there has been another Muslim “incident”. A New York-area amusement park, Rye Playland, was temporarily shut down and police were called in on August 30 to quell an altercation that erupted after Muslim women were barred from several rides for safety reasons. Because their long, flowing headscarves could have become entangled in the rides’ | Read More »
The labor union movement is on the march. Despite representing only 7% of the private-sector American workforce, unions always claim ‘Labor’ Day for themselves. Nonsense. After ruining countless American businesses and industries since the end of World War II with outrageous wage demands, strikes and violence, and after falling out of favor with private-sector workers by free choice, Teamster union leader Jimmy Hoffa Jr. said | Read More »
One of the biggest political surprises of 2011 was the announcement by Democrat US senator Jim Webb of Virginia that he is not going to seek re-election after one term in Washington. Webb was a Reagan administration Navy Secretary who switched parties and was seen as a rising star among Democrats. In 2006, he took the Virginia seat from Republican incumbent George Allen in the | Read More »
The British cosmologist Stephen Hawking – the guy squished up in the wheelchair who is always talking about the origins of the universe – recently declared that there is no heaven. It was all over the media. So what else is new. He is an academic atheist who does not believe in God. He comes from atheistic Britain. And he is treated like a king | Read More »
In a recent commentary in The New York Times called ‘Stop Coddling the Super Rich’, America’s wealthiest man, investor Warren Buffett, is showing us who he really is. Wrote Buffett: ‘Last year my federal tax bill — the income tax I paid, as well as payroll taxes paid by me and on my behalf — was $6,938,744. That sounds like a lot of money. But | Read More »
Will the Middle East uprisings lead to a worldwide surge of freedom? Or will they simply end up installing more repressive leaders and fail in the most oppressed nations? It certainly could go either way, but right now it looks like the latter. There is always hope, however. After all, the collapse of communism in 1989-1991 led to the liberation of 400 million people in | Read More »
The name Irene comes from the Greek ‘irini’ and it means “peace”. But the brouhaha that has developed over Hurricane Irene is hardly peaceful. The media played up Irene as a monster that was going to devour America. But it turned out to be only a tropical storm that drenched 12 states but that did cause major flood damage in some areas. Some conservatives are | Read More »
Al Gore is precious. He is the gift that keeps on giving. He is really going off the deep end these days and it is just entertaining as heck to watch. He recently said that those who deny ‘global warming’ are like racists in the 1950s. So first we GW skeptics were called traitors and then compared to nazis and now to racists. What’s next? | Read More »
Here are some interesting facts from Rasmussen Reports, the polling organization, which has had a very accurate record in the last few elections. They show Obama’s popularity falling ever more: ‘The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday (August 24, 2011) shows that 19% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-five percent | Read More »
A rock musician known as The Edge – whose real name is David Evans – plays guitar for the band U2, which is the outfit of globe-trotting do-gooder Bono. Evans has wanted since 2005 to build a luxury housing complex on 156 acres for himself and his associates in Malibu, California on the outskirts of Los Angeles overlooking the ocean from an unspoiled ridge line. | Read More »
The city council in Eugene, Oregon, an ultra-liberal university town, voted down in late June a proposal to say the Pledge of Allegiance before every council meeting. The council then passed a compromise which mandates that the pledge be recited at meetings closest to the Fourth of July, Veterans Day, Memorial Day and Flag Day. Reported foxnews.com: ‘It was supposed to be simple, but Councilman | Read More »
So what if I go out on a million dates (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) You never call or listen to me anyway (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) I’d rather rage than sit around and wait all day (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) Don’t get me wrong, I just need some time to play (yeah) …If you love me, if you hate me you can’t save me, baby, | Read More »
On Friday, August 19, when many Americans were on vacation or were in a drowsy summer state of mind, the Obama administration dropped a bombshell: The Department of Homeland Security announced that it had changed its policy and now will individually review 300,000 pending federal deportation cases. It will suspend lower-priority cases — those not involving violence or other danger. In other words most deportations | Read More »
Vice president Joe Biden recently was said to have referred to law-abiding, election-winning Tea Partiers as “terrorists”. Biden denies the charge, but the word “terrorists” is believed to have been used in closed-door meetings among certain Democrats to describe conservatives. This could be expected since it comes from the party of hateful demagogues. This comes after Democrats have openly called Tea Partiers “racists” and everything | Read More »
A group called South Carolina FairTax sponsored the recent RedState gathering in Charleston. The group is in the vanguard of the so-called Fair Tax movement, advocating on the state level what has been discussed on the federal level for many years. South Carolina state rep Bill Taylor addressed the RedState gathering to explain the advantages of a Fair Tax system. Fair Tax will eliminate current | Read More »
With Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann winning the recent Republican Iowa straw poll and Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty dropping out of the presidential race, the primary field is starting to shake out. Expect more dropouts soon. Candidates like former Pennsylvania US senator Rick Santorum are not running well and neither is Newt Gingrich, who shot himself in the foot from the start. It’s an unfortunate turn | Read More »
The RedState gathering in Charleston, South Carolina last weekend was a real conservative extravaganza. RedStaters should seriously consider attending next year when the event is preliminarily set to be held in Florida. The prominence of RedState.com and the RedState culture is growing, and a flurry of national media fired up Charleston. When the RedState assembly is covered by C-Span as it was last weekend, you know it | Read More »
*Who precisely authorized the mission in which our elite Navy SEALs lost 22 special forces troops in the Afghanistan Chinook helicopter crash incident? *Who loaded all these elite troops – from the same SEAL Team Six group that took out bin Laden – onto one slow-moving CH-47D chopper, notorious for its lack of maneuverability, and sent it into a combat zone? *Was this a sabotage | Read More »
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