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Huckabee Is the Wrong Candidate for the Wrong Time

Sometimes, probably because he’s such an affable media presence, I forget why I dislike the political version of Mike Huckabee so much. Maybe it’s the aw-shucks populism, which isn’t substantively very different from the class conflict rhetoric we hear from so many on the left these days. Or maybe it’s that Everyman Huckabee has been […]

Big Bird Puppeteer Tells Incredible Story About Dying Fan

Dealing with children day in and day out probably carries with it a lot of joy and happiness.  Being the Big Bird Puppeteer would certainly be a great opportunity to experience that level of joy.  Unfortunately, that joy  sometimes can be overshadowed when those children are living under depressing circumstances. “The man behind Big Bird shared […]

Obama Blows Off Vets on VE Day 70th Anniversary

Today is Victory in Europe Day, the 70th Anniversary of the victory over Nazism: Hundreds of people, including many aging veterans, gathered Friday at the National World War II Memorial to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the conflict in Europe. On the warm spring morning, they gathered in the plaza of the […]

Ex-FDNY commissioner: ‘de Blasio is a disaster’: Female Firefighter allowed to graduate despite failing physical fitness test due De Blasio’s new PC guidelines

This is another layer of the onion that shows Bill de Blasio is unfit to be the mayor of New York.   NY Post reports Mayor de Blasio, you have a life-and-death problem. “This guy de Blasio is a disaster,’’ Thomas Von Essen, the former New York City fire commissioner, told me. Von Essen presided […]

SFC Christopher Speer Is Dead; Omar Khadr Is Free

A Canadian judge ruled this week that Omar Khadr poses no public safety threat. Tell that to the children of Sergeant First Class Christopher J. Speer and the surviving American soldiers who valiantly fought Khadr on the battlefield. In 2012, Khadr pleaded guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty and guilty to five charges related to the killing […]