Pelosi’s Impeachment Blues
After years of stalling and deflecting the rabid left wing of her party, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally declared intent to move forward with impeachment proceedings. Not over election irregularities. Not over foreign emoluments. Not over domestic emoluments Not...
Child Puppets
If you are reading this, you probably have heard, at least tangentially, of Greta Thunberg, a sixteen year old Swedish girl who has achieve international fame as a face and voice of a climate-activist youth movement. What you probably have not heard of, unless you pay...
Normalizing Impeachment – De Blasio’s Unlikely Love
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio just announced the end of his quixotic run at the Presidency a run for which the only large supporter to "show love" with money was the New York hotel industry. How might the Lefty Mayor and the capitalistic, red-in-tooth-and-claw,...
We’ll See It For You
In an interview with satellite radio host Ron Bennington (whose show and interviews I highly recommend), comedian Colin Quinn offered his opinions on political correctness and its deleterious effect on standup comedy, observations of the fear that all the Democratic...
You Pay, Either Way
Daniel Pantaleo, the New York City police officer responsible for the death of Eric Garner in an infamous police brutality episode, has finally been fired. It took five years. He applied a fatal choke hold in violation of policy. It happened in broad daylight, it was...
Bottomless Lust For Infinite Power
Watching the current and recent machinations of the Democratic Party, I conclude the title of this essay. With an addendum: By any means necessary. The latest (pathetic) attempt at taking down Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, an allegation of sexual misconduct...
Elizabeth Warren’s Health Care Deceit
The Democrats recently had another debate, their first with their ten front-runners all on the same stage. I had little interest (as usual) in hearing three hours of droning on how we need more government for everything. But, I was hosting a group of friends, and some...
Displacing Humanity
Yesterday, on the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the New York Times posted and deleted an odd tweet: 18 years have passed since airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center. Today families will once again gather and grieve at the site where more...
Banning Cheddar
Erstwhile progressive darling Beto O'Rourke recently sought to jump-start his going-nowhere presidential campaign with a Hail Mary declaration that, if elected President, he'd ban "assault weapons": Americans who own AR-15s, AK-47s, will have to sell them to the...
A Victory For The Culture Scolds
An innocuous "memory" was offered by Facebook this morning. I chuckled at it - it was a "throwaway" comment about a moment I had on a vacation a number of years ago - and was about to re-share. Then, I paused. Was this harmless (trust me) comment one that some...
Baltimore and the Real Curley Stooge
Another 'meanie' tweet from the President has enflamed the partisan battle of the usual lines: Republicans are racists, Democrats are not fit to govern. This time, the bomb seems to have been thrown in an attempt to shift attention away from the crisis on the border,...
The Truth About BDS
Bill Maher, smug, arrogant gadfly that he is, gets a lot of things wrong, but occasionally gets something right. Today's installment of blind-squirrel/broken-clock has to do with the BDS movement. For those who aren't familiar, BDS stands for "Boycott, Divestment and...
That Which Can Be Given
A recent conversation about organ donations reminded me of another, decades-old, conversation I had with a co-worker during a company blood drive. Apparently, he had donated regularly for many years. Then, if I recall correctly, a family was soon to undergo a...
Let’s Save Some Lives
The El Paso and Dayton mass shootings look like they might "succeed" where previous iterations did not in spurring the government to "do something." While liberals are broken-record demanding an assault weapon ban (despite the last one accomplished nothing), we see...
Border Bottleneck Barrier Barristers
We adapted to World War Two by training up an army nearly from scratch. We built a Navy of globe-spanning capability in short order. We created a new intelligence institution that performed better than its professional replacement. With tools adapted to the need, we...
Tipper Trump
Movie naughtiness in the pre-MPAA era. "Jazz musicians," code for black entertainers who smoked pot. Elvis Presley's hips. Comic book salaciousness. The Beatles' mop tops. Jim Morrison saying "get much higher" on Ed Sullivan. Hippies' poor grooming habits. Elmer Fudd...
Either/Or Terrorism
We witness, yet again, the horror of innocents going about their daily routines murdered en masse by a piece of human garbage. Twice in one day, in El Paso and Dayton. The history of such events cautions us to take our time in our pursuit of understanding, to avoid...
What Has Changed?
Two more mass shootings, and an entirely predictable spectrum of responses and proposed remedies from the usual sources. Politicians, both from the Rahm Emanuel angle and as a general rule, leap immediately to advance the solutions that fit their ideologies....
More Climate Doomsaying
The usual places have been buzzing over the latest "deadline" to save the planet, one that's quite interesting in both its timing and its delayed dissemination. A BBC report quotes "Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, founder and now director emeritus of the Potsdam Climate...
Fascist Medicine
Much (deserved) shade was thrown at some of the Democratic Presidential candidates' plans to institute a "Medicare for All" system that outlawed private insurance plans. I expect that someone got in their ears and told them a - that the European systems they so admire...
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