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In honor of Fleet Week (which starts Saturday in San Francisco), I have three Navy/Marine related stories to relate and I want to promote a few of my favorite Navy related blogs. Story 1: My daughter has started a new school and is making new friends. The other day, I met the Mom of one […]
Sadly, ABC’s The View is what passes for as “intelligent” conversation on TV, these days. The View yacker Joy Behar’s blather is also indicative of the historical illiteracy of the far left in this country. Herman Cain made an appearance on the coffee klatch show this week and genius Behar had this comment about the […]
Remember the story about 20,000 Ugandans evicted from their land, along with many who were raped and murdered, all in the name of carbon offsets, thanks to the Warmists and their crazy beliefs? Well, now we get, via The Reference Frame (The New American) The deaths of 23 Honduran farmers involved in land disputes with […]
I can’t decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing (Fox News) To the dismay of consumer groups and the discomfort of Democrats, President Obama wants Congress to make it easier for private debt collectors to call the cellphones of consumers delinquent on student loans and other billions owed the federal government. […]
I am a tremendous fan of Ann Coulter’s work. Coulter’s best known for being a master polemicist with an eye for controversy, but she’s also funny, an outstanding researcher, and a brilliant thinker. Let me also add that I hate to spoil her ferocious rep, but I’ve found her to be one of the single […]
Remember what happened after Gabrielle Giffords was shot? Liberals apparently don’t because all of their talk about how important the tone of political debate seems to have gone right out the window. Courtesy of Gateway Pundit, here are three stories about the “tone” we hear from the Left. Lovely People… Obama Supporters Chant Against StL […]
There are Americans dead because the Obama Administration funneled guns to Mexican criminals for reasons that have never been fully explained. Moreover, even the inadequate explanations we’re getting aren’t true. Eric Holder has apparently perjured himself. New documents obtained by CBS News show Attorney General Eric Holder was sent briefings on the controversial Fast and […]
I agree with the Obama administration’s decision to kill the American-born al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki. What I can’t fathom is why the administration agrees with me. Here’s Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta responding to complaints from the ACLU over the “assassination” of an American citizen without due process: “This individual was clearly a terrorist. And […]
Politicians who are principled enough to point out the fraud of Social Security, referring to it as a lie and Ponzi scheme, are under siege. Acknowledgment of Social Security’s problems is not the same as calling for the abandonment of its recipients. Instead, it’s a call to take actions now, while there’s time to avert […]
The Washington Post’s stoning of Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry is journalistic malpractice. Instead of calling the newspaper to task, other national media outlets have joined in. And now, the Post is doubling down on slander. The Post dispatched reporters to the remote hunting grounds of a Perry-linked ranch — “associated” with Perry through “his […]
Here’s my fantasy: Libertarians are elected to the presidency and to majorities in Congress. What would happen next? Well, if libertarians were “in charge,” you’d have more freedom and prosperity. Freedom frightens some people. They say if no one is in charge there would be chaos. That is intuitive, but think about a skating rink. […]
Should the president have the right to kill you? And if so, under what circumstances? If you are a U.S. citizen living in the United States and plotting the murder of your neighbors — let’s say they mow their lawns very early every Sunday — it is unlikely a predator drone will launch a Hellfire […]
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men, women and transgendered — and any other human who is able to elude the tyranny of work for a couple of weeks — are created equal. We gather to be free not of tyranny, but of responsibility and college tuitions. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that […]
When President Obama says that the rich don’t pay their share of taxes, he is lying, distorting and demagoguing. Here are the facts according to the IRS: ___Those making more than $1 million pay 24 percent of their income in taxes. ___Those making $200,000 to $300,000 pay 17.5 percent. ___Those making $100,000 to $125,000 pay […]
Who arranged the Solyndra loan? Top Obama fundraiser Steven J. Spinner, who according to ABC, worked to “pick and select fantastic projects” for the Department of Energy to fund. During the campaign, he was responsible for raising at least half a million dollars for Obama. Now he told associates that he “helped oversee the more […]
William F. Buckley, Jr., founding father of the modern conservative movement, famously asserted his doctrine of voting for the most conservative candidate who is electable. Let me presume to add an analytic codicil: The GOP and the conservative movement have tended to support the most conservative policies only when they are understood to be conservative […]
Is there a clumsier group of newspaper character assassins than the hit squads at The Washington Post? On Oct. 1, the Post was back on the racist-Republican attack with a 3,000 word, investigative treatise over a rock. Specifically, Gov. Rick Perry had leased a property where the N-word was painted on a rock, and then […]
I met a really great girl before deploying to Iraq. We’ve gotten as close as two people can while physically separate, but she is sexually frustrated to the max and wants to have an unemotional hookup. She suggests we each have a “last fling” before we start our relationship (when my deployment ends in 60 […]
In the early 1900s, Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian engineer-economist-sociologist, developed what he called the “80/20 rule.” His research indicated that in a business, 20 percent of the items accounted for 80 percent of the business and that roughly 20 percent of the population controlled roughly 80 percent of its wealth. Since then, others have incorrectly […]
The conventional wisdom holds that the parties in Congress are not locked in a zero sum game where the loss of one triggers the gain of the other. Instead, it appears that the parties are embracing one another in a downward death spiral, losing public favor with each passing month as their bickering continues. But […]
Proving yet again why he was considered the joke of the Senate when he was a member of that august body, Vice President Joe “Slow Joe” Biden has once again shown that he is one of the most clueless men ever to serve in our second chair. And that really is saying something when we’ve […]
Anyone shocked? From The Politico New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie formally announced that he wasn’t going to join the presidential race on Tuesday, saying he’d come back to his original feeling about staying out despite reconsidering in recent days. “In the end, what I’ve always felt was the right decision remains the right decision today. […]
The Occupy Wall Street Crowd is finally getting the media coverage it wanted when hundreds were arrested crossing over the Brooklyn Bridge a few days ago. On twitter many conservatives have been making fun of the protesters who seem to be young people not sure of what they are protesting. They know they are “anti […]
I have to tell you, it’s stories like these which may turn me back into a Warmist….oh, you didn’t know that prior to 2003, I was a True Believer? Well, yes, I was, and stories like these make me very worried about the future if climate change continues to happen. Starting off with Discovery News: […]
Obviously, there has been a big kerfuffle over the “targeted killing” of Anwar al-Awlaki, a United States citizen turned al Qaeda big wig (along with Samir Khan, another traitor who hails originally from North Carolina). Said kerfuffle is bipartisan in nature, with many saying that killing him amounts to assassination of a US citizen, and […]
RWN has been around since 2001 and the page has had a lot of different design and staff changes over the years, but the general style really hasn’t changed all that much. The page, like most blogs, has always straddled that line between news and opinion. The style is as old as the blogosphere: You […]
There tends to be a rough parity between parties in the American political system. That’s because both parties shift in response to changing conditions. They go after new groups of constituents, positions on the issues change, and the only rule at the end of the day tends to be that he who can deliver the […]
Listening to some establishment Republicans grousing about the field of GOP presidential candidates should serve as a warning. Republicans, if they are not careful, are in danger of catching the same virus that infected Democrats in 2008. That would be a messiah complex, the belief that one man (or woman) can deliver us from our […]
* Once you start catering to people’s pathologies, it seldom ends well or at a reasonable point. * Tolerance, diversity, and “not being mean” are part of a pseudo-morality. Real morality is difficult & requires firm lines. * God > Family/Friends > other Americans > America’s allies > Everyone else > Animals * Women complaining […]
You could make an argument that the United States should dramatically cut back on foreign aid just on purely financial grounds. After all, if we don’t have the money to pay our own bills, why in the world are we giving our money away to other countries? But, let’s say you reject that argument on […]