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Chinese Summer Solstice Means Death for Thousands of Dogs

Apparently the Chinese haven’t evolved past the point of consuming what most of the world consider to be household pets. Despite an outright ban by the government, dog meat is still consumed in record amounts during the Yulin Festival. This celebration has been dubbed “the festival of cruelty” by critics. From Vice News: Despite an […]

Dear Everyone, Get Over Yourselves

Dear Everyone, I say this in the most sincere way possible: Get over yourselves. Not everything is about everything, or everyone. In fact, most things are about the very few people involved in them and no one else. From the tragic to the political, we saw a wave of people inserting their pet projects and […]

Defaulting on Personal Responsibility

Boy, was I dumb to pay back my college loans. That is the conclusion of writer Lee Siegel, who explained in a New York Times op-ed why he never paid back his. Siegel’s parents had limited means, you see, so, at 17, he borrowed to go to a pricey private school for two years. When […]

Public Safety Was The Last Thing On Their Minds

Everyone has a story: The time an unlicensed driver rear-ended me. The time an unlicensed driver ran a red light and killed a co-worker’s dog as her husband was walking the dog in a crosswalk. It seems as if there are so many unlicensed drivers in California that authorities are not capable of deterring the […]

Russia – The Horseman of War

NoisyRoom.net “Death on a Pale Horse” (1796) by Benjamin West, Detroit Institute of Arts When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come and see!” Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men […]

Notice how gunmen target schools and churches, not NRA events

When is the left going to wake up and realize that crazy gunmen are deliberately choosing victims in locations where they know they will be unarmed? Disarming schools and churches has made those locations prime targets for the nutcases.  Breitbart reports, Why do they target Fort Hood twice within a five years period while opening […]

Check out this brutal KO fight in slow motion [VIDEO]

In this era of smartphones everywhere, not a fight takes place anywhere that is not recorded. Some student captured a fight right as it broke out between two school kids, and uploaded it to LiveLeak in slow motion so you can see every step. It’s difficult to predict in the beginning which kid will win, […]

Sheriff Joe provides armed posse to protect black churches

After the Charleston shooting, there is concern across the country that it could happen at other churches. Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is providing extra security for the churches in his county… The sheriff, who was asked by Rev. Jarrett Maupin, a local minister and civil rights activist, to provide the protection, will send armed volunteer […]

For Father’s Day, Counting Our Blessings

I was swapping dad stories with a friend and laughing hard. Then my friend got quiet and said something that hit me hard. “God, I wish my father was still alive.” I’m one of the luckiest sons on earth because my dad is healthy, and I pray he stays so for a good long while. […]

Who Has the Worse Idea: Obama or Trump?

There are some very stupid ideas emanating from powerful people and political wannabes. From the powerful, President Obama wants to put welfare housing in wealthy neighborhoods as a tactic to “end poverty.” He obviously wants to emulate the societal “success” of forced busing. Let’s apply common sense to the President’s plan. Obama wants to diversify […]

Pope Keeps the Faith on Climate Change

Pope Francis is releasing an encyclical Thursday on climate change — a draft of which was leaked to the Italian magazine l’Espresso on Monday. The New York Times reports that the encyclical is “eagerly awaited, especially by scientists and environmentalists” — because the pope agrees with most of them. On the right, it’s not all […]

Donald Trump’s Circus Act

Poor Jeb. He’s Donald Trump’s first Republican victim, but he won’t be his last. On Monday Bush officially declared he was a Republican candidate for president, something everyone knew was coming. Jeb gave a serious, by-the-book announcement speech, explaining his many qualifications, making his claim that he’s a true conservative and promising to make America […]

CIA report reveals alarming flaws in US intelligence

PARIS — Two years ago, former NSA contractor and CIA employee Edward Snowden bailed to Hong Kong with a stash of digitized top-secret documents, some of which have since dribbled out into the public domain. According to a newly declassified report by the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General, systemic vulnerabilities in the intelligence community […]