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Ebola In America: Is The Government Doing Enough?

I’m writing this with Ebola-type symptoms. I don’t have Ebola;, I have food poisoning. But still. The world is not yet in panic mode over the latest outbreak, but it’s close. Is it justified? Ebola isn’t an easy virus to contract, or at least it didn’t used to be. The only sure way to catch […]

Football player Marshawn Lynch’s accuser could spend a year in jail for falsely claiming the Seahawks running back punched her, when she actually ‘drunkenly fell on her face’

Jammie Ficarelli, 31, is being accused of lying to police when she alleged that Marshawn Lynch, a running back for the Seattle Seahawks, punched her in the face and damaged her Louis Vuitton purse in an altercation at the Hilton Bellevue Hotel. As it turns out, the evidence proves that Ficarelli drunkenly fell on her […]

Leading civil rights lawyer investigated for rape after Al Sharpton’s birthday party with stars

Attorney Sanford Rubenstein, 70, is being accused of raping a 42-year old executive who has ties to Al Sharpton, in the hours following Sharpton’s 60th birthday party.  The victim was reportedly ‘incapable of consent,’ so may have been intoxicated or passed out. Guests at the party included Mayor de Blasio, Gov. Cuomo, director Spike Lee and […]

Frenchman marrying stepmom – and his dad will attend the wedding

This is almost as disturbing as Woody Allen marrying ex-girlfriend Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter, who was only 19 when they clandestinely began having the affair behind her mother’s back. In the small village of Dabo in northeastern France, a 45-year old Frenchman, inconveniently named Eric Holder, is about to marry his former stepmom, age 48.  The Mirror […]

Why Krugtron the Invincible is Wrong About the Minimum Wage

The great Krugtron the Invincible argues the minimum wage can be increased without much consequence. He says there’s “hardly any cost to raising it,” and that “we can raise these wages without losing lots of jobs.” Notice the weasel language. We can raise it without losing “lots” of jobs, but regardless of what he subjectively […]

Salon: We Really Need To Change The Constitution

I know, you’re thinking “Salon: a whole bunch of far left nutbaggery”. And the article certainly includes quite a bit. Interestingly, the more I read, the more nuggets of rationality I found. Of course, that’s the point: getting conservatives to bob their head in agreement This is our new Constitution: How we fix gun rights, […]

On Religion and Morality

Are religious people as equally prone to immoral acts as nonreligious people? The answer is yes according to a new study, “Morality in Everday Life,” which I read about in the Daily Mail. Daniel Wisneski and Wilhelm Hofmann, the study’s lead authors, recruited 1,252 adults between ages 18 and 68 using Craigslist, Facebook, Twitter and […]

Republicans Need to Think Bigger and Smarter

Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard is really on to something with his call for Republicans to “Go Big or Go Home.” Fred reminds us that Republicans have won big with big ideas in the past, such as “1978, when the Kemp-Roth tax cut was introduced. It proposed to slash individual income tax rates by […]

Security Breaches ‘R Us’

The White House sprayed by bullets. A hospital guard with a criminal record and a gun the Secret Service didn’t know about riding on an elevator with the president in Atlanta. The fence-jumper who made it all the way into the East Room of the White House. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson had no choice […]

War Is The Thunder… Plague Is The Lightning

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton NoisyRoom.net AP/Reuters There’s a fantastic post at The Washington Free Beacon: The Case for Panic, by Matthew Continetti. When I read it, it hit a chord within me and I found myself agreeing with Continetti over and and over again. My head spins at the number of emergencies currently being foisted on […]

How Obama Became President Ebola: Ditched CDC Quarantine Regs on Ebola in 2010

In 2010, the Obama administration abandoned proposed regulations by the Centers for Disease Control, which would have implemented procedures for preventing international travelers from spreading deadly diseases within the U.S. Now, four years later, it is no coincidence that a man infected with Ebola has entered Texas, where he has reportedly come into contact with […]

These Comments By Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Are Sure To Set Off A Firestorm

Returning once again to the issue of religious expression in proximity to public schools and other public resources: During a speech at Colorado Christian University on Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argued that the U.S. Constitution does not prohibit religious references in public places, including schools: “I think the main fight is to dissuade […]

UNBELIEVABLE: Immigrants, Kicked Off Obamacare for Failing to Prove Legal Status, Are Now Suing

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any more ridiculous, this story comes along. Two immigration groups are suing the Obama administration for kicking more than one hundred thousand illegals of their Obamacare plans because they failed to provide the necessary documentation proving their citizenship. Two immigration groups have filed legal complaints against the Obama […]

Baby Elephant Falls at the Zoo, Herd Rushes to the Rescue

Walking is a difficult task for a baby, and when you have to figure out how to coordinate four legs instead of just two, the occasional fall is inevitable. When this adorable little elephant, Omysha, took a tumble, the other elephants in the zoo came to her rescue. Baby Omysha, the youngest resident in the Zurich […]

Awesome: Atheists Attacked This School, but Their Football Team Just Told Them to Shove It

Some much-needed and long-overdue pushback against the abuse of what may be one of the Supreme Court’s most-abused decisions ever, Engel v. Vitale. As the First Amendment says: “…or prohibiting the free exercise thereof“… Immediately following a recent matchup between football teams from the Air Force Academy and Arizona Christian University, the disdain for such […]