Author: Karol Sheinin

Joe Biden says he won’t let Obama take away his gun. Biden, who regularly gets an “F” grade from the NRA, sounds straight outta Compton when he says “he [Obama] tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem.” Does Biden know they’re on the same ticket? — Karol Sheinin blogs political at Alarming […]

**Sharpton Announces Plan To Shut Down NYC To Protest Court Decision. If Al Sharpton’s not outraged, you’re not paying attention. **For Europe’s Middle-Class, Stagnant Wages Stunt Lifestyle. I keep hearing how the dollar is tanking and the Euro is so strong, and yet I don’t see stories about the American middle class being unable to […]

Headline: Effectiveness of D.C. gun ban still a mystery Actually, there’s not a lot of mystery here: Yet the gun culture on the city’s mean streets during the crack epidemic has not abated, police statistics show. Even as the homicide toll declined in D.C. after 1991, the percentage of killings committed with firearms remained far […]

105-year old man gets American citizenship: In 1964, he was imprisoned in Cuba for smuggling weapons from the United States into the island for an insurrection against Fidel Castro. [Jose] Temprana got out at age 93, applied for a humanitarian visa and flew to Miami. Once here, he worked to get his citizenship but fell […]

Wish you didn’t have to join: Scots, Unscathed by IRA, Learn to Live With Terror — Karol Sheinin blogs at Alarming News. She lived in Scotland for 3 years and considers it her second home.

I don’t expect that much from my elected officials. As a small-government conservative, I’m really just looking for our leaders to take care of the big things like defense and security. Turns out, our elected officials are too bogged down with important things like banning online poker (a pet peeve of mine despite the fact […]

I wonder what the “Arab Street” will make of this: A group claiming to be an al-Qaida branch in Syria and Lebanon threatened in an online video today to attack Lebanon’s military and its tourist venues if troops do not halt operations against Islamic militants in a Palestinian refugee camp. — Karol Sheinin blogs political […]

**Hillary Clinton arrives for a fundraiser in an 18-wheeler. **Sheryl Crow wants you to use one square of toilet paper per bathroom visit while she tours with 3 tractor trailers, 4 buses and 6 cars. **Al Gore is, of course, king of the enviro-hypocrites. Read about his mining-company sponsored trip to Chile and how he […]

The widow of a Madrid bombing victim wore a Mohammed cartoon t-shirt to the trial of the alleged attackers. Meanwhile, a French court has ruled in favor of a newspaper that published the offensive cartoons: The charges, brought by the Paris Mosque and the Union of Islamic Organizations of France, accused the newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, […]

Uh-oh: BRITAIN’S crisis with Iran deepened yesterday as Tony Blair warned Tehran it has only a few days to release 15 captured British sailors and marines, as a US commander in the Gulf criticised the British for not opening fire on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who seized them. It will be interesting to see what […]