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This Week In Quotes: 11/22-11/28

In a 2012 presentation, Mr. Johnson, then still Penney’s CEO, said the company was selling fewer than one out of every 500 items at full price. Customers were receiving an average discount of 60%, up from 38% a decade earlier. The twist is they weren’t saving more. In fact, the average price paid by customers […]

I’m Offended That You’re Offended

That’s right brother — you’ve been offended by me with impunity for the last time. I’m sick of you being offended and now I’m putting it back in your court: I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m offended that you’re offended. I’m offended that millions and millions of “illegal aliens” overloading hospitals and emergency rooms, […]

Pro-gun control lawmaker resigns to avoid losing recall election in Colorado

An: anti-gun: Colorado state senator resigned Wednesday in the face of a recall effort that could have cost anti-gun Democrats their hold in the state Senate. According to Fox Denver affiliate Fox31, Sen.: Evie Hudak’s resignation means a Democratic “vacancy committee” will appoint her successor. “In the interest of preserving the progress made over the last year, I […]

Welcome to the Kludgeocracy

How is it possible that Barack Obama did not know that his beloved healthcare.gov: website was a botch? That’s a question many thoughtful people (including thoughtful Democrats) are asking. We heard him say that he wouldn’t have boasted that it would be as easy to use as: amazon.comor: obitz.com: had he known that it wouldn’t. I’m not “stupid enough,” […]

Set Toilet Paper on Fire? That’s a First Degree First Degree Terroristic Threat!

So now, high school pranks earn you the label of “terrorist.” Awesome: Police say a 15-year-old freshman boy: faces a second-degree criminally negligent burning charge, a misdemeanor, and a first-degree terroristic threatening charge, a felony, after he: ignited: a roll of toilet paper in the bathroom of West High School Wednesday morning. Under Alaska law, a person causing […]

The Mayflower Compact, 1620: An American Founding Document

One of America’s earliest, religious documents, the Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the Separatists, also known as the “Saints”, fleeing from religious persecution by King James of Great Britain. They traveled aboard the Mayflower in 1620 along with adventurers, tradesmen, and servants, most of whom were […]

Iran Announces Development of Ballistic Missile Technology, not to worry Obama trusts them

: This is what happens when an amateur president (aka Barack Hussein Obama) makes a deal with vipers (aka Iranians).:  Washington Free Beacon reports a top Iranian military leader announced late Tuesday that Iran has developed “indigenous” ballistic missile technology, which could eventually allow it to fire a nuclear payload over great distances. Brigadier General Hossein […]

Obama administration’s closing of Vatican embassy ‘slap in the face’ to Catholics

The: Obama administration: plans to shut down the: U.S. Embassy to the Vatican: and relocate offices onto the grounds of the much larger American Embassy in Italy. In the wake of the attack in Benghazi, Libya, the move is justified primarily on the grounds of enhanced security,: John Allen of the: National Catholic Reporter wrote. Cost savings is said to be […]

Obama Mocks Tea Partiers As “Tea Baggers” In Letter To Teacher

Barack Obama may be the nastiest, smallest, pettiest, most hyper partisan little man ever to occupy the White House. Ritter, a fifth-grade teacher at Sally B. Elliott :­Elementary in Irving, Texas, had written to the president: “This bill has caused such a :­divisive, derisive and toxic environment .?.?. The reality is that any citizen that […]

Is It Too Soon To Say “I Told You So”?

Back in September, The New York Times promoted Bill de Blasio’s mayoral candidacy with an editorial titled, “Don’t Fear the Squeegee Man.” The editorial informed readers that crime wouldn’t get worse under de Blasio because “policing is far better than it used to be, thanks to innovations by Mayor David Dinkins.” (Emphasis added — the […]

America’s coastal royalty

The densely populated coastal corridors from Boston to Washington and from San Diego to Berkeley are where most of America’s big decisions are made. They remind us of two quite different Americas: one country along these coasts and everything else in between. Those in Boston, New York and Washington determine how our government works; what […]

The Knockout Game — NYT/NPR Say No Big Deal

The “knockout game” — and the media underreporting of it — combines the breakdown of the family with the media’s condescending determination to serve as a public relations bureau for blacks. The “game” is a dare in which a young man — all the perps appear to be male people of color, mostly blacks — […]

Obama finds a way to ruin Thanksgiving

For some, Thanksgiving is difficult enough with abrasive relatives gobbling up your food without a scintilla of gratitude. Now President Obama comes along with a proposal that could cause turmoil in even the happiest of homes. The president wants us to discuss politics, immigration reform and Obamacare at our holiday tables. Imagine the scene. One […]

Smart Phones, Foolish Choices

“In space, no one can hear you scream” was the tag line for Ridley Scott’s breakthrough 1979 sci-fi flick, “Alien.” With the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to revisit its 22-year ban on using cellphones in flight on passenger planes, that could change. Oh, joy, was my first thought. That obnoxious Alec Baldwin wannabe who makes […]

Broken Families Dragging Down Growth

Are Republican politicians trying to frame a policy agenda stuck in a Reagan rut? A good case can be made that they are — or have been. Tax cuts have been a staple of Republican platforms since Jack Kemp persuaded Ronald Reagan to back a 30 percent tax rate cut in the 1980 campaign. Republicans, […]