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Trump: ‘Pretty Pathetic’ For Hillary To Blame Me For SC Shooting

Businessman and now 2016 presidential-hopeful Donald Trump is not taking any criticism from Hillary Clinton lying down. After Clinton went on an absurd tirade against Trump where she essentially blamed him for the Charleston, South Carolina AME church shooting, which took the lives of nine individuals, Trump is finally firing back. Clinton claimed that rhetoric […]

NY Times: Apologize For Slavery

NY Times writer Timothy Egan offers a compelling argument for a national apology for slavery on the occasion of Juneteenth Apologize for Slavery A WEEK of absurdity around a confused racial con artist, and a massacre in a black church brings us to this: Today is the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth, when the last of […]

Foreign Policy Downplayed in Jeb and Hillary Announcement Speeches

American presidents have greater leeway on foreign policy than on domestic issues. Just see how President Obama is forging ahead to an agreement with Iran opposed by large majorities in Congress and among voters. A president’s personal predilections and core assumptions can have much more of an effect on his foreign policy than on domestic […]

Why Are We Ignoring A Cyber Pearl Harbor?

What if a team of Chinese agents had broken into the Pentagon or — less box office but just as bad — the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and carted out classified documents? The next day, the newspapers and morning TV shows would show pictures of the broken locks and rummaged filing cabinets. And if […]

Liberals Mocking Obamacare Case Have a Big Problem

There is a big problem with the prevailing liberal narrative that the phrase describing subsidy eligibility in Obamacare, “established by the state,” could not possibly mean what it says. The problem is named Jonathan Gruber. For years Gruber understood Obamacare precisely the same way the challengers in King v. Burwell do. When the bill passed […]

The Trans Fat Ban Is Worse Than You Think

The Food and Drug Administration issued a final decision this week, giving the food industry three years to phase out bad trans fats, still used in a wide variety of products, such as Pillsbury’s Ready To Bake cookies and cake frosting. Now, if you’re ingesting large quantities of either, perhaps partially hydrogenated oils aren’t your […]

Let’s Ditch The Political Correctness

Political correctness is a contradiction of reality and distortion of morality that necessitates relentless government intervention devised by those who seek to control our lives. These self-appointed “Speech Sheriffs” warn us that words spoken outside the imaginary perimeters they’ve set are judgmental, negative, racist or intolerant. The goal of these elitists is to subtly subvert […]

Millionaire Loses Millions After Adopting 75 Orphans

A woman in China wanted to do something meaningful with her wealth, so she helped the less privileged by adopting 75 foster children. Now she finds herself in debt… The former garment business owner from Wu’an County, China, adopted her first orphan in 1994 and went on to adopt dozens more who either lost their […]

Toddler dies from ear infection after ‘parents refused treatment because they don’t believe in modern medicine’

1. Vaccinate your kids.  2. If you “don’t believe in modern medicine,” if your kids to someone who does and isn’t a complete idiot. Otherwise you’re the Deloziers, who did nothing while their daughter died from an ear infection that could have been treated with antibiotics. Ebed Delozier, 29, and Christine Delozier, 34, were charged […]

This Week In Quotes (Double Edition: June 5 – June 12)

Racism is an extremely attractive ideology for the dim and weak and unaccomplished. Dumb white people like thinking that they have some mystical connection to Other Great White People. Thus it is that an idiot Klansman can think he share some special blood-and-land kinship with Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo Da Vinci doesn’t need to dream […]