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Why women — and voters — prefer jerks to fops

PARIS — An intriguing social phenomenon prompted a horrific killing spree in Santa Barbara, California, last week, and the same phenomenon might help explain the surprising results of last weekend’s European Parliament elections. The suspected Santa Barbara killer, 22-year old Elliot Rodger, left behind a 141-page diatribe and multiple online videos expressing frustration over a […]

Three Ways To Save Your Hood Today

Self-defense.Private security.Police-community unity.These are the three pillars that comprise my strategy for successful anti-crime activism.:  Notice that none of these three suggestions require blessings from on high (or low) from the bureaucrats who often are be either indifferent or hostile toward citizens who are seeking safer streets, especially if those concerned citizens happen to be […]

Armed Homeowner Fends Off Five Masked Intruders

Someone brought a crowbar to a gun fight: An Indiana resident armed with a handgun fended off five masked intruders during a home invasion Saturday evening. A Fort Wayne resident heard a knock on the front door and went to answer it. When he did, five masked men forced their way inside, at least two […]

Government Agency Eliminates Employee Reviews Because They Can Be “Discriminatory”

I’ve heard of: previous employers refusing to comment on how a person performed while employed because they feared lawsuits, but this is a whole new level of business CYA: One government agency has decided that the results of employee ratings are too discriminatory, and eliminated the process entirely. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced on Monday […]

CAIR’s Canadian Branch Sues PM Stephen Harper After He Refuses To Apologize For Accurately Linking Them To Hamas

You shouldn’t have to apologize for telling the truth, but the people can’t know the facts. : It would hinder implementing the agenda: A Muslim organization on Monday sued Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his spokesman for libel for linking the group to Hamas, which Canada lists as a banned terrorist organization. The National Council […]

White House Outs CIA Station Chief in Afghanistan

The Obama administration’s foreign policy is like a constant parade of idiocy and incompetence. The latest example? They outed the CIA Station Chief in Kabul, Afghanistan to the media for coverage on Obama’s surprise visit to the troops. The CIA’s top officer in Kabul was exposed Saturday by the White House when his name was […]

New IRS Obamacare Rule Guarantees Massive Job Loss

For the last two years many businesses have been warning that because Obamacare will hurt them so badly they will cease offering employees healthcare and dump employees onto the Obamacare exchanges. But now the IRS has ruled that business will not be allowed to do this and this move guarantees that companies will begin a […]

Global Warming Hoaxers Call for Punishment of Skeptics

The antihuman dogma of radical environmentalism reaches the apex of insanity with the global warming hoax, according to which all productive human activity is hurtful to the planet and therefore must be suppressed. This ideology is so profoundly hostile to the human race that it makes Nazism, Islam, and even communism look downright benevolent by […]

MSNBC Dimwit Melissa Harris-Perry Compares the NBA to Plantation Slavery

The idiotic notion of reparations — the idea that black people should be paid money because bad things happened to their ancestors by white people who had nothing to do with said bad things — has become en vogue again with liberals. While discussing reparations and racism, MSNBC’s resident tampon-earring-wearing nutjob, Melissa Harris-Perry, actually had […]

Surprise: Obamacare Causing Lots Of Union Contract Issues

Healthcare costs are often a sticky point when it comes to union contracts. I can specifically recall several contract negotiations for a company with over 180k employees in recent years, over moving employees from standard plans to Health Care Savings accounts. Now this same thing is playing out, and the higher costs are thanks solely […]

What’s The Real Reason For The VA Scandal?

As the VA scandal rolls along, with much of the major media wanting to ignore it or bury the coverage deep in the website/newspaper, many are trying to use distraction-blame. Obviously, Democrats are trying to Blame Bush. He certainly does bare some blame. But, as the liberal talking point regarding 9/11 went, “who’s president now?”, […]

The 6 Lamest Excuses For Failure From The Obama Administration

  “I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.” — Wimpy from Popeye “I won’t pull the football away this time, Charlie Brown!” — Lucy, Charlie Brown Those are long running laugh lines in the comics and readers are supposed to roll their eyes as they hear those words. Maybe Americans just aren’t […]

Random Thoughts

Random thoughts on the passing scene: Will the Veterans Administration scandal wake up those people who have been blithely saying that what we need is a “single payer” system for medical care? Delays in getting to see a doctor have been a common denominator in government-run medical systems in England, Canada and Australia, among other […]

Veterans, PTSD and US Government Abandonment

Combat veteran Kryn Miner, 44, served 11 deployments in seven years. He suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury after a bomb blast in Afghanistan in 2010 threw him into a wall. It was one of 19 blasts he endured over two decades of service to his country. On April 29, Kryn […]

A Young College Grad Calls My Show

Last week, on my radio talk show, I received a call from Jeff, a 21-year-old in North Carolina. I have abridged it and edited it stylistically. JEFF: I wanted to respond to your question about America being feared in the world. You brought up Syria. I think it’s a little naive, and maybe that’s not […]

The Rich List and the West’s culture of envy

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — In the 1970s, while working as a low-paid cub reporter in Houston, Texas, I always looked forward to the annual Christmas catalogs from Neiman-Marcus and Sakowitz, a local luxury department store. Both contained outrageously expensive things that only the super-rich could afford — his and hers Thunderbirds stick in my memory. […]

Welfare Mooches With 9 Kids Go On Taxpayer Funded Vacation

Meanwhile, millions are struggling to get food on the table: …a welfare family that consists of two parents and over nine kids, with two more on the way, have recently treated themselves to a $5,000, taxpayer funded, vacation. … Along with this, just three months ago, they were given $200,000 house by the government but […]

New Jersey Set To Ban Many Common Hunting Rifles

Wait? : I thought the common liberal talking point was the Second Amendment was about hunting. : Now they’re banning hunting rifles? That’s right: A bill has been sent to Governor Chris Christie’s desk in New Jersey that would have the effect of prohibiting many fixed-magazine weapons commonly used in hunting, and almost never in murders. The […]

Pregnant Christian Mom Held in Prison With Her Children & Sentenced To Death By Hanging In Sudan Because She Won’t Convert To Islam…

I keep looking online for the Michelle Obama Hashtag sign to free this pregnant woman who will suffer death by hanging after the baby she is carrying is born and is imprisoned with her now 20 month-old child because she won’t denounce Christianity. Via Fox News: An American citizen whose pregnant wife has been sentenced […]

Democrat Politician in Atlanta Campaigned To Raise The Minimum Wage While Paying The Homeless Less Than Minimum Wage To Work For Her Campaign

The term elitism is sometimes used to denote situations in which an in-group grants themselves extra privileges at the expense of others. Democrat candidate, Cleta Winslows elitist ideals made her believe it was ‘okay’ to hire homeless people well below the minimum wage while she was campaigning on raising the minimum wage because she’s a […]

Progressive Prigs Versus the Iron Pigs

Bacon tastes so good, you had to know it was only a matter of time before it was targeted it for restrictions: PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) has erected a billboard a mile from the Allentown Iron Pigs’ ballpark, comparing bacon to cigarettes and declaring: “Keep Kids Safe: Ban Bacon from Ballparks.” The Iron […]