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October 15, 2012

Biden’s Strategy: Be a Jerk

Filed under: Elections & Voting,In The News - 15 Oct 2012

Is there a human being on this Earth more obnoxious than Joe Biden? It appears that the following was his strategy in the vice-presidential debate:

October 14, 2012

Bus Driver to Conservative Child: “Your Mother Should Have Chosen Abortion for You”

Actress Stacey Dash was attacked viciously on Twitter after she expressed support for Mitt Romney, with several people telling her “Kill yourself,” another calling her a “hag,” and yet others hurling racial slurs. But even this pales in comparison to …

October 13, 2012

My Answer for Lloyd Marcus

Filed under: Politics In General - 13 Oct 2012

“Everything I heard today is true. But, because of racism I suffered in my youth, I can not turn against Obama.” According to conservative writer Lloyd Marcus, the preceding sentiment was uttered by his father, a black man, after the …

October 8, 2012

Do We Want Mr. Nice Guy as President?

Filed under: Politics In General - 08 Oct 2012

Watching the debate on Wednesday, I truly can’t imagine Barack Obama having come off as the more likeable candidate. Continuously glancing downwards, perhaps looking for inspiration (I glance upwards, myself), and often displaying an angry countenance, he seemed stiff, detached …

August 30, 2012

The Sideshow at the DOJ

Filed under: In The News,Liberalism, Marxism & Communism - 30 Aug 2012

Step right up, folks! We have here behind these mysterious walls curiosities to amaze and astound. See the lawyer with anger issues who’ll scream at the court like Sam Kinison and then put a take-down move on the …

August 16, 2012

Hey, Fareed, You’ve Got a Paragraph; You Didn’t Write That

Filed under: Academia, Media & Hollywood - 16 Aug 2012

He really didn’t.

In penning his recent piece “The Case for Gun Control,” Time editor and CNN host Fareed Zakaria actually made the case that he needs to focus on pen control. Because he plagiarized part of his work from …

August 7, 2012

The Olympics and Feminist-style Reporting

Filed under: Academia, Media & Hollywood - 07 Aug 2012

It’s difficult to say if the greatest drama of the 2012 Olympics has occurred inside or outside the athletic arena, but it’s hard for anything to compare to the controversy that recently surrounded 16-year-old Chinese swim sensation Ye Shiwen. …

August 1, 2012

Grand Mufti Emanuel’s Chicago Values

When Rahm Emanuel ascended to the top of Chicago’s political heap last year, it was thought to have been the result of a citywide election that won him the mayorship. I had no idea he was appointed the city’s …

July 29, 2012

What Everyone Forgets When Debating Gun Control

In the wake of the Aurora mass shooting, the usual pattern is playing out with respect to gun control. People such as Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Piers Morgan and Bill Moyers are beating the drum to restrict firearm ownership, as …

July 28, 2012

The Aurora Propaganda Award Goes to…

The New York Daily News. Hands down.

The winning entry is an anti-Second Amendment Rights piece written in the wake of the Colorado tragedy, one in which virtually every line contains a callow, melodramatic appeal to emotion or an outright …

July 26, 2012

Tea Party Targeted by “All the Bolsheviks’ Children” (ABC)

It wasn’t just that ABC’s Brian Ross was wrong in suggesting that the “Jim Holmes” he found on a Tea Party website was the same man who committed the heinous crime in Aurora, Colorado. It’s that his comment was …

July 19, 2012

Please, No Rice with That Romney

Filed under: Elections & Voting,The Republicans - 19 Jul 2012

With the rumor that Condoleezza Rice is a frontrunner to be Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential pick, she’s the talk of the town. She’s so intelligent, so sophisticated, so statesmanlike and so scholarly that she could make you wonder if Hillary …

July 13, 2012

The Real Reason John Roberts Upheld ObamaCare?

Filed under: Courts, The Law & The Judiciary - 13 Jul 2012

It’s now well established that Chief Justice John Roberts had ulterior motives for upholding ObamaCare. The usual theories involve his being concerned about the Court’s, or maybe even his own, losing of respect by seeming to operate in a …

July 7, 2012

Arrest Eric Holder

The House has voted overwhelmingly to hold Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for withholding documents on the Fast and Furious scandal, but where do we go from here? Not surprisingly, the Justice Department won’t prosecute Holder on the …

June 15, 2012

The Un-American Sin of Property Taxes

Filed under: Featured Conservative,Taxes & Taxation - 15 Jun 2012

When North Dakotans went to the polls on Tuesday, they had a chance to strike a blow for freedom and make their state the first in the nation to ban all property taxes. Unfortunately, though, the referendum was defeated …

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