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“Progressives” and the Death of Mainstreet USA

The day after President Obama gave his State of the Union address, I drove through my hometown of Roseburg, Oregon. An old mill-town that once hummed with the sounds of log trucks coming and going, Roseburg is now dying. While it still deals with the overly-harsh environmental regulations on timber put forth during the Clinton […]

The Best Quotes From “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”

Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai is a classic 300 year old book about bushido, which is the Samurai’s “way of the warrior.” There’s a lot of wisdom in the book, although all of it is not applicable to modern life. Even in the areas where Yamamoto Tsunetomo’s honor code doesn’t quite fit, it still […]

Attack of the Concern Trolls

Turns out the: New York Times: is worried about the future of the Republican Party. So concerned, in fact, it has dedicated more than 6,000 words in this week’s magazine to explore, as the title puts it, “Can The Republicans Be Saved From Obsolescence?” Indeed, the folks at: The Times: seem extremely concerned that which they hate might not […]

For Dems to Win House, Obama Must Rise in Polls

Barack Obama has said that he wants to help Democrats win back a majority in the House of Representatives. He says he looks forward to Nancy Pelosi being speaker again. If he does work hard to elect House Democrats, it will be a change from 2010 and 2012, when he didn’t do much at all […]

Disgusting Leftist Mark Lamont Hill Compares Cop Killer to a ‘Super Hero’

Nothing really stuns me anymore about the Left and their lunacy. That was until this week when soulless Columbia professor Mark Lamont Hill: appeared on: CNN: and got giddy about cop killer Chris Dorner. Hill said Dorner’s murderous revenge spree was “exciting,” and was like Jamie Foxx’s character in Tarantino’s latest flick,: D’jango Unchained. Hill doubled down on his […]

For Presidents Day – George Washington Makeover

“What do you mean America’s youth don’t know who George Washington was?” “Dude?” “He was our first president, our best president and one of the primary reasons the experiment called America was able to work. But of course they don’t teach you that in school anymore.” “Dude?” “Scholars and historians deemed Washington to be our […]

Obama Drafts Path To Citizenship Bill

Well, someone in the White House drafted it while PBO runs around the country giving campaign speeches and playing golf. While the procedures and requirements are not bad (if we’re ignoring the basic fact that illegal immigrants broke US law by coming to this country either by crossing the border illegally or overstaying their visas […]

The Cut Is in the Mail

It’s Nixon’s fault. I speak of the financial woes of the U.S. Postal Service, and the news last week that its hopes to cut Saturday mail delivery to save a few billion dollars a year. As it goes, President Nixon, tired of strikes by then-government postal workers, signed the Postal Reorganization Act into law in […]

Delaware Shooting Illustrates Meaningless of Gun Control Laws

Welcome to Delaware, reader. While “our own” Joe Biden was promoting government control of your gun accessories in the nearby major media market of Philadelphia, network, local and national press reporters wheeled into “DelaWhere?” to document the horrible carnage of a most violently dysfunctional custody and child support battle. The shooter, Thomas Matusiewicz, was father […]

God Bless You, Sen. Feinstein

Sen. Dianne Feinstein began her war on allergy and cold sufferers in 2005. In an effort to prevent small-time dealers from buying allergy and cold drugs and cooking them into methamphetamine, she pushed through legislation requiring consumers to show identification before purchasing products with pseudoephedrine — otherwise known as the good allergy drugs, known only […]

State of the Union: Failure

Our failure in chief gave us his annual blurred vision of America again Tuesday night. Based on his State of the Union message, Barack Obama’s eyesight is as ideologically impaired as ever. Despite four years of failure, he still sees only one road America can go down to regain its economic health. Not down the […]

ACLJ Applauded Call For Abedini’s Release

: The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) which focuses on constitutional and human rights law applauded a bi-partisan Congressional call for Secretary of State John Kerry to “exhaust every option” in seeking the release of American Pastor Saeed Abedini. More than 80 U.S. Senators and Representatives have sent a letter to Secretary of State […]

Sports Illustrated’s ‘Racist’ Swimsuit Issue

Everything is racist these days. Even the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, apparently. At least that is the latest tempest in a teapot being stirred by our busy race merchants. The website Jezebel is the latest to stir the pot claiming that because SI used locations on all seven continents and featured people in native garb […]

It Isn’t Science

On the whole climate change thing, as far as the science goes, my position isn’t too remarkably different from blogger friend Phil’s. I think it is perhaps measurable lately, due to our inevitably sharpening skills and technology in measuring things, that human activity is having an impact on the environment around us. But not in […]

Obama Tells Law Abiding Chicagoans They Should Be Further Disarmed Since He Knows What It’s Like To Grow Up On The Mean Streets

No, really (Politico) President Barack Obama offered a personal reflection on gun violence here Friday, tackling the issue not as a policymaker or parent, but as a black man himself who knew how close he’d come to a very different fate. Obama’s talked frequently about gun violence since the Newtown massacre, but never in these […]

15 Things That Are Not Okay For Liberals To Do

Many liberals have come to believe the rules of morality, decency, and good behavior don’t apply to them. You see, since they’re liberal they think that no matter how racist, sexist, violent, dehumanizing, evil or disgusting their behavior may be, they’re still good people just by virtue of the fact that they’re liberals. Of course, […]

Obama’s Gone Jack Bauer on us

The Obama administration seems to have gone Jack Bauer on us, which would be okay if we were just talking about non-American enemy combatants on some far-flung battlefield. It seems the administration danced its way around case law and the Constitution in an attempt to justify the assassination of three American citizens it refuses to […]

Feds Force Private Businesses to Give Hiring Priority to Criminals

For anyone who doesn’t get it yet that the federal government is the enemy of any productive, decent, law-abiding American, this story ought to help: Should it be a federal crime for businesses to refuse to hire ex-convicts? Yes, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which recently released 20,000 convoluted words of regulatory “guidance” […]