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TAMPA, Fla. — Tuesday night was Good Cop/Bad Cop night at the Republican National Convention. Ann Romney played the good cop; the keynote speaker, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, played the bad cop. Where Mitt Romney comes across as remote, his wife exudes accessibility. Democrats have devised a talking point about the Republicans’ so-called “war […]
TAMPA, Fla. — The Republicans who are assembled here have been told time and time again that Barack Obama’s great advantage over Mitt Romney is likability. And many of the 15,000 or so journalists who endured the gusts of rain on Monday and groaned in the sun on the 1.5-mile walk from the nearest parking […]
(These poll numbers are from a survey of 500 likely voters that I conducted on Thursday, Aug. 23.) Voters have hardened their views about the economy and now decisively reject Obama’s economic record and say they see no reason for it to get better in a second term. Instead, they conclude that the president doesn’t […]
Another week and more to read on the: Middle East: as always.: : Some of the more interesting articles I thought worth sharing: With the election 2.5 months away, an interesting piece on Obama vs. Romney: 4 Interesting Differences on: Israel:: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2012/0826/Obama-vs.-Romney-101-4-differences-on-Israel/Israel-s-threats-to-bomb-Iran A new book, “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People” discusses the age-old question of: “Jews: A religious group, […]
With Hurricane Isaac’s slamming the American gulf coast putting a temporary halt to oil production and refinery output, consumers can expect to see higher prices at the pump. Just in time for the Labor Day holiday. Before Hurricane Isaac came along, gasoline costs were at an almost four month high.: The nationwide average rose to […]
In 2005 after hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast like a sledgehammer, several folks on the right side of America’s political aisle suggested that the devastation the storm inflicted on New Orleans was somehow a punishment imposed on the city by God. Most on the right condemned the remarks. The left, of course, went apoplectic […]
As part of a never-ending series, I like to do short reviews of the books I read. Here are the latest 10 books I’ve read along with the previous 250 that I’ve perused included. PS: If you’re wondering why there are very few low rated books on this list, it’s because I have a low […]
“Middle-class society is being strained to the breaking point not, as Marx predicted, by ever-increasing misery but by ever-increasing affluence.” – Eric Hoffer “Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.” – Victor Hugo It goes without saying that it’s better to be rich than poor. However, that doesn’t mean that affluence doesn’t have its own […]
After a long, wonkish, inside baseball fight over who selects delegates that came as a reaction to the way the Ron Paul people had gamed the system, an inept Republican establishment that sees grassroots activists as disposable widgets put together an unhappy compromise that created all sorts of acrimony with the delegates. This was a […]
In yesterday’s Fish Wrap Of Record there were a total of 3 opinion pieces whining about Republicans taking Obama’s “you didn’t build that!” comment out of context with the RNC motto of “You Did Build That!” Here’s the Times’ uber-far left Editorial Board It was appropriate that “We built it,” the needling slogan of the […]
While Liberals are hyperventilating over an RNC attendee supposedly throwing nuts at a Black camerawoman and saying “this is how we feed the animals”, calling this racism (it may or may not have been. It could have been a jerk being a jerk to the very liberal media, or, yeah, could have been a racist), […]
Update/Correction: MSNBC aired South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s speech. Haley is Indian-American. A: funny thing happened on race-obsessed MSNBC tonight. The liberal network failed to give viewers coverage of the speakers who happen to be member of racial minorities. : As Francesca Chambers, Editor of Red Alert Politics,: reported on August 28th: When popular Tea Party candidate Ted […]
As Republicans convene in Tampa to nominate Mitt Romney and hammer out their party platform, one of the planks that could attract the most attention is the Party’s official position on the gold standard. As it is now being considered, the platform stops short of recommending a return to the gold standard, but does advocate […]
While all eyes were on the Republican National Convention in Tampa and Hurricane Isaac on the Gulf Coast, the White House was quietly jacking up the price of automobiles and putting future drivers at risk. Yes, the same cast of fable-tellers who falsely accused GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney of murdering a steelworker’s cancer-stricken wife […]
Forty years ago, the United States locked up fewer than 200 of every 100,000 Americans. Then President Nixon declared war on drugs. Now we lock up more of our people than any other country — more even than the authoritarian regimes in Russia and China. A war on drugs — on people, that is — […]
The United States is backing off from the Middle East — and the Middle East from the United States. America is in the midst of the greatest domestic gas and oil revolution since the early 20th century. If even guarded predictions about new North American reserves are accurate, over the next decade the entire continent […]
If you listen to America’s political hacks, mainstream media talking heads and their socialist allies, you can’t help but reach the conclusion that the nation’s tax burden is borne by the poor and middleclass while the rich get off scot-free. Stephen Moore, senior economics writer for The Wall Street Journal, and I’m proud to say […]
With all the conflicting polls and survey samples using registered — as opposed to likely — voters, I decided to conduct my own poll using the same methodologies I used so successfully for Clinton. On Thursday, Aug. 23, I conducted a national survey of 500 likely voters through live telephone interviews. The poll finds Romney […]
TAMPA, Fla. — Huzzah, America, our centuries-old struggle with racism and bigotry may be coming to an end. This news was confirmed by none other than Michael Eric Dyson, a professor of sociology and the author of 18 books on race, racism, racial history, black culture and black history. Suffice it to say, he knows […]
This week’s Republican convention in Tampa, Fla., is a political autobahn. Depending on how Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan play it, they’ll either gain some unfettered mileage in advancing their agenda with the voting public, or slam into a pole in a single-car crash. Nothing stands in their way except themselves. Not even the liberal […]
Some great Publicity quotes (and my thoughts): “The very minute a thought is threatened with: publicity: it seems to shrink towards mediocrity” Oliver Wendell Holmes (Israel: should keep more secrets) “Publicity: is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” Louis D. […]
The current White House occupant, in a calculated, targeted attack against Republican rival Mitt Romney, attempted to dismiss a key Romney rationale for his presidential candidacy by saying: “When you’re president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure […]
Left-wing, British columnist Owen Jones was not a fan of George W. Bush, it seems. While this is no surprise for as screaming a left-winger as Jones, what is a surprise is that he has decided that President Obama is no real improvement over the “repulsive” Bush. In a recent column in The Independent, Jones […]
So while everyone has been preoccupied with the is-it-or-isn’t-it hurricane blowing wind at the Gulf Coast (Soledad O’Brien was so terrified of the effects that she went without makeup for her morning report from New Orleans), long-time friend of the United States and its interests, reliable trade partner and human rights paragon Russia has joined […]
No one should be particularly surprised. Democrats constantly yammer on about “diversity”, yet they never seem to actually investigate what diversity they are supporting. These are also people who support Palestinian homicide bombers, wanted America to fail in Iraq and Afghanistan (partly because Bush was president), and many thought Osama Bin Laden was assassinated and […]
Over the past few days we’ve been treated to a constant litany of news that wonders if it is proper for the GOP to hold their convention at all, much less toning it down, as Isaac has been churning in the Gulf of Mexico. This notion ramped up when it looked like Isaac was going […]
Neutered house-pet Greg Hampkian asks a question oft posed by lesbians and man-haters, but seldom by those with testes, “Men, Who Needs Them?” Women aren’t just becoming men’s equals. It’s increasingly clear that “mankind” itself is a gross misnomer: an uninterrupted, intimate and essential maternal connection defines our species. …I don’t dismiss the years I […]
1) America’s credit rating would get so low that it would force President Dennis Kucinich to petition the UN for donations to pay for Social Security, Medicare, and his newly implemented 350 weeks of unemployment plan. 2) There wouldn’t be a Pledge of Allegiance said in schools, no one would sing the Star Spangled Banner […]
Insurance is all about risk. Yet neither insurance companies nor their policy-holders can do anything about one of the biggest risks — namely, interference by politicians, to turn insurance into something other than a device to deal with risk. By passing laws to force insurance companies to cover things that have nothing to do with […]
