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Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki cannot get a handle on the recent scandalous treatment of veterans in VA hospitals, where more than 40 sick men were allowed to die without proper follow-up treatment. A cover-up allegedly followed. When the Walter Reed Army Medical Center scandal broke under the George W. Bush administration, heads rolled. So […]
“San Francisco, open your Golden Gate. You’ll let nobody wait outside your door.” Those are the lyrics of the city’s signature song, but now somebody should call “rewrite.” On Tuesday, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency voted to bar nonresidents’ cars from the crooked part of Lombard Street on Saturday and Sunday afternoons between June […]
I’m old enough to remember when only black people called black people “Uncle Tom.” Democrats, however, long expanded the category of who can play the race card and on whom. Call them equal opportunity race-card players. As with black race-card hustlers — say the Revs. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or any given host on MSNB-Hee-Haw […]
PORTSTEWART, Northern Ireland — President Obama Wednesday replayed a familiar scenario when dealing with scandal, in this case delays for treatment, deaths, alleged cover-ups and other acts of malfeasance reported at Veterans Administration hospitals in the United States: first express outrage, next announce an investigation and then say he won’t comment on the scandal until […]
Just off of the James C. Lodge Freeway in Detroit is Eight Mile Road. The stretch near the freeway is just east of the famed area that provided the basis for the Eminem film of the same name. To its north lie predominantly white suburbs — over 77 percent of those who live in Oakland […]
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As per the norm, Rush is right: If there is a group of people the government is really gonna look out for and really try to take care of, it’s going to be people who have worn the uniform.: Everybody has just understood this.: Which is why: all of these years of the horror stories of […]
She’s a Democrat, so of course the media is silent: Democratic Nassau County, NY Legislator Ellen Birnbaum has caught heat from fellow lawmakers after she allegedly said, “This is a bad neighborhood because African-Americans live there. Very few people would want to go there.” Those remarks were in reference to an area near the Yes […]
What are the pitfalls of working with white people? : Well, we ask stupid questions for one. That’s what the flyer at the White Privilege Conference says anyway: (Click to embiggen.) My personal favorite is “Get too friendly too fast.” : Because we all know if we took our time getting friendly with non-white people, we wouldn’t […]
Obama has stolen more land for federal government by declaring Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks a national monument under a the Antiquities Act which will take grazing land away from ranchers and make it illegal for local police to patrol the area now that it’s federal land. Via Washington Times President Obama on Wednesday will declare a […]
This tough love tag team mother and grandmother take turns yelling at their son in the squad car after they find out he was involved in an armed robbery. Problems with the police were the least of one Houston teenager’s worries when his mother and grandmother arrived to publicly scold him in the back of […]
It’s really just so, so terrible for kids to feel left out, so the answer is obviously to do away with anything that might make people feel excluded is to get rid of the offending item. That was the attitude of one middle school, which decided to cancel their honors night so they could spare […]
There were several times Mandy Boardman woke up feeling like her body had been “messed with.” Suspecting her husband she told the police, he is tried in front of a jury and found guilty in court or raping and drugging her but is only sentence to two years probation, a GPS monitoring device and will […]
There’s no amount of control over Americans that Obama doesn’t want. It’s not enough for him to use the NSA to spy on us — now he’s also after your medical records, too. The federal government is piecing together a sweeping national “biosurveillance” system that will give bureaucrats near real-time access to Americans’ private medical […]
A middle school in Rhode Island had canceled its night meant to honor students who achieved excellent grades because officials felt that the annual honors ceremony would hurt the self esteem of those more stupid kids who didn’t get top grades. Parents whose children attend the Archie R. Cole Middle School in East Greenwhich, RI, […]
There’s no doubting the fact that kids today are coddled and babied, and that discipline seems to have gone the way of independence in childhood. But one Arizona woman took the idea of discipline way too far, when she punished her boyfriend’s daughter by forcing her to eat her own feces. An Arizona woman was […]
By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton NoisyRoom.net Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping — ITAR-TASS/Mikhail Metsel As Americans ponder gender issues, racism and collectivism… Russian battleships are in Shanghai for joint naval drills with the Chinese. The Russian anti-surface destroyer Bystry sailed into port ahead of the “Joint Sea-2014” naval drills, in Shanghai along with […]
Like most states run by liberals, Illinois has been experiencing cash flow problems. But apparently that’s no reason to ease up on the waste: Our cash-strapped state government has found a new use for its fleet of aircraft — flying birds into Illinois. … State aircraft are flying to Kansas and transporting prairie chickens back […]
Pushback works. This story demonstrated clearly why excellence and liberalism cannot prevail in the same society: EAST GREENWICH, R.I. –Citing concerns about the “exclusive nature” of the annual honors night at Archie R. Cole Middle School, school officials have decided to scrap the tradition. Fortunately, people are still capable of being outraged that the very […]
In 2013, tax reform was given major support in the Senate by the Finance Committee and in the House by the Ways & Means Committee. But first, said the politicians, tax “extenders” that help big companies get research tax credits, equipment write-offs, etc. had to pass. For “certainty,” we were told. That argument, we now […]
If only Obama had some sort of law enforcement agency which is really, really good at investigating stuff at his beck and call (Washington Post) One of President Obama’s top aides is being dispatched to Phoenix this week to investigate deaths allegedly connected to a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center there, part of the […]
It’s not like the Federal Bureau of Investigation is the nations top law enforcement agency, charged with enforcing the law, and marijuana is considered a Schedule I drug, illegal per federal law. Heck, Los Federales have placed restrictions on people using federal waters to grow marijuana. (WSJ) FBI Director James B. Comey said Monday that […]
Look out, everyone: The nation’s school lunch lady, Michelle Obama, is mad. With her federal nutrition program under fire across the country and now on Capitol Hill, Mrs. Obama put out a “forceful” call to arms this week to “health activists,” according to The Washington Post. She’s cracking the whip. Her orders are clear: There […]
Are you worried about the future? It’s hard not to be. If you watch the news, you mostly see violence, disasters, danger. Some in my business call it “fear porn” or “pessimism porn.” People like the stuff; it makes them feel alive and informed. Of course, it’s our job to tell you about problems. If […]
From the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have always started out supporting free speech, and why is easy to understand. Speech is vital for the realization of their goals of command, control and confiscation. Basic to their agenda are the tools of indoctrination, propagandizing, proselytization. Once they gain power, as leftists have at many universities, […]
The former secretary of state has characterized her place in history as akin to a runner in a relay race, taking the baton, running her laps as best she can, and then handing it off to John Kerry, her successor. But the actual record indicates that, rather than a relay, Hillary Clinton’s role in Iranian […]
With the Russians on the prowl, the Chinese hacking into our computers, Boko Haram in Nigeria triggering fear and celebrity hashtags, the last thing America needs is to lose a trusted ally: England. But the great Anglo-American alliance is threatened by the reality TV show “I Wanna Marry ‘Harry,’” which premiered Tuesday on Fox and […]
On May 7, the Obama administration boasted that Obamacare was improving health care quality for seniors, pulling out a bag of statistical tricks to prove it. But a closer look shows that they’re not improving care. They’re skimping on it, socking seniors with unexpected bills for “observation care” and likely shortening their lives. President Barack […]