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What the fucking hell is going on with this stupid country? I’ve been running a case of the flu so I haven’t felt like blogging, but that does not mean events have stopped. I just went to Drudge earlier and saw these headlines: WHITE HOUSE THREATENS ‘EXECUTIVE ORDERS’ ON GUNS… ‘The president is going to…

Last month I wrote a facetious post, mocking what struck me as a ridiculous idea. The government can mint two platinum coins, declare they are worth $1 trillion each, deposit them at the Fed, and then move the money directly into Treasury accounts. Don’t laugh! Economists are actually endorsing this harebrained idea… That was then.…

Last April I wrote a post title “Fool us twice?” about the anti-Second Amendment policies of BofA. Well, guess what? Engulf and Devour has been at it again, and this time it’s even more outrageous, for they have illegally frozen perfectly legitimate funds deposited by a firearms manufacturer in the course of business, simply because they don’t…

As I’m fighting off what seems to be an insistent toehold of the flu right now, blogging isn’t a priority, but I did read about an interesting claim earlier that seems worth addressing. According to some Muslims (including that leading American front group CAIR), Islam has senior title to America. Why, you ask? Because, claims CAIR,…

Via Newsbusters, I found this true gem by Troubador at Daily Kos: …the murder-suicide massacres we see from time to time are the purest expression of the conservative mentality as it now exists in this country. I’m glad someone finally figured out the murderous essence of conservative purity. Clearly, Stalin, Mao, and the Cambodian killing…

In a WaPo article about the horrendous gun control legislation now in the works, a discussion of the importance of timing reveals the blatant opportunism at work. Timing is imperative Obama’s advisers have calculated that the longer they wait, the more distance there is from the Newtown massacre and the greater the risk that the bipartisan…

Here’s something you don’t see every day. A leading environmentalist named Mark Lynas, who has long opposed GMOs (probably because evil big corporations like Monsanto are involved) actually took the time to study the science. Not only did he conclude that he was wrong, but he has apologized: I want to start with some apologies.…

Here’s Joe Biden in 2008, sounding almost line Charlton Heston when he promised that if Obama “tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem“: Nice. Via Ted Nugent, who trusts that Biden still maintains those sentiments. Go Joe! Ain’t YouTube wonderful?

Al Jazeera is now a US TV network thanks to Al Gore. “When considering the several suitors who were interested in acquiring Current, it became clear to us that Al Jazeera was founded with the same goals we had for Current,” Hyatt wrote. “Al Jazeera, like Current, believes that facts and truth lead to a…

It is humbling that even at my age, I learn about “new” things that astound me, but which are in fact traditional and not new. Earlier it made me feel like an ignoramus to learn about a Catalan religious tradition going back to the 18th century which would seem downright disrespectful to Christianity, but which…

Most of us (specifically 77%) will have to pay more: The budget deal passed by the U.S. Senate today would raise taxes on 77.1 percent of U.S. households, mostly because of the expiration of a payroll tax cut, according to preliminary estimates from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in Washington. More than 80 percent of…

H/T JPFO

Treason? Or treason? UPDATE: (12:05) Now that it’s the next year I can’t make any more sense of the above than I could last year, but in any case… … a very HAPPY NEW YEAR to all! (Perhaps things will be less crazy as time goes on, but perhaps not.)

In his latest endorsement of gun control measures, President Obama said  one thing that is absolutely true: “I’ve been very clear that an assault-rifle ban, banning these high capacity clips, background checks, that there are a set of issues that I have historically supported and will continue to support,” the president said. I see the above…

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The above picture was from this Yahoo story of Hillary hospitalized with blood clot. Notice the odd triangular motif on the right? That is not something you normally see in the context of American icons. The caption for the picture reads: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answers questions from the audience at the 2012…

I just read something interesting. The 2012 elections are over and it was a landmark one for women. Female voters made up 54 percent of the electorate, and according to exit polls, 55 percent of those women voted for Obama…. So why have men in effect “stopped voting”? Or more accurately reduced their participation.

The utterance in the title can be heard at about the 5:05 mark. So what is the video about? The end of college and probably all of education as we know it. The montage in the beginning is especially interesting. So are teachers really worth what we pay them? Some are worth way more. The…

As it’s that time of the year (a time I would rather not explain in explicit detail), I’ve been feeling haunted lately. Feeling haunted is a not altogether unpleasant experience, although it it is a little like nostalgia on steroids. Nostalgia is to haunting as pot is to heroin. Or as beer is to Everclear.…

Eric in his post The Most Important Drug War Film I’ll Never See? linked to this Forbes article where I found this comment: The War on Drugs needs to be replaced with an all-out War Against Drug Dealers to include: – Death penalty for 2nd & 3rd time offenders, as optional for juries and judges…