Stand Up, Speak Out, Fight Back!
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This past Friday, as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered his annual address from Jackson Hole – the State of the Dollar, if you will – I couldn’t help but hear it as an incumbent’s campaign speech. While Wall Street was hoping for some concrete announcement, what we got was a mushy appraisal of the Fed’s […]
Friday morning’s Today show on NBC did its best to paint the most rosy scenario possible on Obama’s latest dismal jobs report. Attempting to inoculate Obama from this economic downturn, host Matt Lauer said that analysts he had “been reading” claimed that the economy will add up to 12 million new jobs, “no matter who […]
Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot about coat hangers. Coat hangers and dirty back alleys. Were abortion to be restricted, they say, women will be lining up for coat hanger abortions in alleys. No, seriously, they’re actually saying that. In nearly every case, the reason a woman has an abortion is that the pregnancy was […]
Fellow Americans and community organizers, So glad to see all of you people here tonight! I apologize for moving the location inside, unfortunately the turnout was drastically lower than we expected, so a smaller venue became necessary in order not to make the convention look like a failure. How do you like all the change […]
During his convention speech accepting renomination, President Obama didn’t offer much in the way of policy specifics. Charles Krauthammer described it as “one of the emptiest speeches [he] had ever heard,” and then in a devastating critique observed: “At least Romney had a five point plan. What we heard from Obama was a vision. And […]
Proponents of wind turbines say that this is all incidental and coincidental. Enough so that there is actually a medical condition name for it (UK Daily Mail) It was Uplawmoor’s tranquility and wild beauty that drew civil servant Aileen Jackson to settle there 28 years ago. She’d had enough of life in the big city. […]
“Many students lack search skills and their schools are to blame.” . . . apparently too many students rely too heavily on the top search results when doing research, according to: an articlepublished on Inside Higher Ed. This problem is compounded by the finding that most students don’t really know how to conduct searches. Often times […]
“. . .: 48 instances of U.S. companies or industries expanding or bringing back : production capacity in the states. We’ve boiled down the more significant ones in the following: presentation.”
When Americans are divided by class and are pitted against one another for political gain it tears our nation apart. The us versus them mentality that the Democrats have instilled in a large portion of this great country is troubling. All you ever hear from the left is envy, contempt, and division. The Democrats have […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — “First shot, straight through, that’s how you perform under pressure,” Barack Obama said in 2008. They played the quote with a video clip of Obama making a basket at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday. Obama knew how to make it look easy, even though it wasn’t. When he spoke at the […]
The consensus on Barack Obama’s acceptance speech Thursday night, and in effect on the Democratic National Convention as a whole, is that it was a bust. One reason may be optics. Obama was scheduled to deliver the speech in a stadium seating 64,000 people. But on Wednesday, after Charlotte, N.C., had been pummeled by periodic […]
The Obama Administration’s Justice Department announced on August 22 that it was joining a lawsuit by a former Gallup employee and whistleblower against the Gallup Corporation for allegedly overcharging the government on polling work. The announcement comes on the heels of a confrontation between Gallup staffers and Obama strategist David Axelrod in which he accused […]
Today, Canada announced that it is closing its embassy in Iran and would be expelling Iranian diplomats from Canada. As Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said “Canada has closed its embassy in Iran, effective immediately, and declared personae non gratae all remaining Iranian diplomats in Canada. Canada’s position on the regime in Iran is […]
Actress Kyra Sedgwick might be tempting fate in Hollywood with a recent interview on the Tavis Smiley show on PBS where she scolded her industry for ignoring the great middle of the country. Sedgwick was on the show discussing her recently concluded series The Closer on TNT and noted that the show was a great […]
I think you can forgive me for using “Snap!” Been awhile, and this article deserves it (via Climate Depot) (Washington Times) Scientists have been studying solar influences on the climate for more than 5,000 years. Chinese imperial astronomers kept detailed sunspot records. They noticed that more sunspots meant warmer weather. In 1801, the celebrated astronomer […]
It’s actually a very nice remembrance, right up till we get to the end 2nd paragraph, and completely at odds with his immediate thoughts on September 12, 2001 (White House) This week, we mark the eleventh anniversary of the September 11th attacks. It’s a time to remember the nearly 3,000 innocent men, women and children […]
If you haven’t seen it yet,: Jerry Seinfeld’s new Web series is pretty good. (The first onestars a 1952 VW Beetle which has . . . wait for it . . . 25 hp.)
Doing her thing: here.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — “First shot, straight through, that’s how you perform under pressure,” Barack Obama said in 2008. They played the quote with a video clip of Obama making a basket at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday. Obama knew how to make it look easy, even though it wasn’t. When he spoke at the […]
Charlotte, N.C. — Going by the conventional rules of American politics, the Democratic Convention this week was an unmitigated disaster. And, going by the same rules, GOP convention was a disaster, too. So, either the rules of American politics have fundamentally changed, or at least one of the parties is taking an enormous gamble. Since […]
CHURCHVILLE, VA–StanfordUniversityhas just published a new study on organic foods–reporting that its physicians and nutritionists found no evidence that organic foods are more nutritious. There was great surprise some quarters and statements such as “a $25 billion a year industry and no one told us it made no difference?” My son, Alex Avery, had already […]
Ze’ev Jabotinsky was perhaps the Jewish leader who had the largest impact upon the pre-state establishment of Israel. Ten quotes which I compiled remain so relevant and applicable to events which transpire today: “In the beginning, G-d created the individual. Every individual is a king equal to his fellow. Society was created for the good […]
The latest Labor Department report shows that job growth in America slowed abruptly in August.: Economists expected payrolls to increase by 125,000, but instead, new hires rose by only 96,000.: That is not enough to keep up with population growth, much less brighten the picture for millions of out of work Americans.: The unemployment rate […]
The Democrat National Committee wanted to make a nice heartwarming video telling America and convention goers how wonderful ol’ “Sheriff Joe” Biden is. But, oops, one of the still photos included in the retrospective shows Biden standing chummy with a union member that was arrested for pick pocketing in 2009. The video, titled, Vice President […]
If you missed the Democratic Convention, you didn’t miss much. It was extremely liberal, relatively nasty, and most of it was paint-dry-boring watching. The DNC was also abortion-palooza 2012. Not only did the Dems have speakers from NARAL and Planned Parenthood on the stage, speaker after speaker just went on and on about abortion. It’s […]
The Democratic National Convention started with the national debt clock hitting 16 billion dollars, the Dems booed God and making Jerusalem the capital of Israel in the middle, and it’s going to end with the jobless rate going up at the end of the week. The first night of the Democratic Convention was mediocre and […]
I heard this one yesterday while listening to Rush at the gym, and, unsurprisingly I was unsuprised at many of the answers Democrats provided (The Blaze) Radio talk show host and erstwhile Senate candidate Peter Schiff has a long track record of trying to reason with his opponents, or at least engage with them fairly. […]
It’s very simple (Daily Caller) President Barack Obama‘s 2012 Democratic National Convention speech asked voters to embrace a planned economy where government leaders would set goals for large swathes of the economy. Pretty much exactly like we expected. This is all Obama and a good chunk of today’s Democrats know. Government. The speech validated the […]
If you were an alien who flew in from Venus this week to catch the Democratic Convention, you would think we were in the middle of a jobs boom. Speaker after speaker talked about what a wonderful job Barack Obama has done creating jobs. Of course, not only is the reality quite different, it’s: getting even […]