In case you missed it the first time around, Vice President Joe Biden earlier this month was left grasping for hardcore scare tactics to push the administration’s sagging Jobs Act, arguing that its passage, in addition to helping the economy, would also, miraculously, prevent murder and rape from occurring on large scale: When the message […]
The headlines and ledes paint the picture: an off-duty Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office detention officer opens fire on a vehicle that rear-ended his car; meanwhile, the paper brings other news of Wildlife Officers going wild with their guns. Reminded of how government agents have little respect for others and are seldom, if ever, punished for […]
Anwar al-Awlaki’s death has stirred an interesting debate. Can we celebrate his departure as one less al-Qaeda operative? Or, should we lament the killing of an American citizen abroad as another step on the slippery slope toward domestic tyranny? The slippery slope argument doesn’t lack precedent. Governments are notorious for targeting their own citizens. Nazi […]
In a similar vein as the warped concept that all students deserve a passing grade, or that every young athlete deserves a trophy, comes news that a football player has been benched for scoring too many touchdowns. In this case, it’s 11-year-old Demias Jimerson from Malvern, AK, where officials have reinstated what’s known as the […]
It’d be nice to think it’s just an innocent editorial oversight when the uptown paper runs a banner headline that reads Judge orders immigrants removed from church, when the more accurate and honest header would be Judge orders illegal immigrants removed from country. The subterfuge, however, doesn’t end with just a headline that makes it […]
Recall the derision and palpable scorn that usually meets Ron Paul and his persistent gold standard fever rants. Or how about the hearty chuckle everybody got from that loon, Rep. Glen Bradley, right here in our own back yard, and his crazy-mad notion to pass the N.C. Constitutional Hard Tender Act. Donald Trump is laughing […]
If you were born in the 1960s, educated in the 1970s, and emancipated from parental dependence in the 1980s, the ideological differences between Democrats and Republicans were clearly defined. Democrats favored high taxes, government regulation, and wealth redistribution. Republicans advocated low taxes, limited government, and private charity. During the 2000s those lines were blurred. Republicans […]
It’s come to this across the pond, where government agents in the UK are yanking four children from their home, not because the kids are being abused, neglected or traumatized, but simply because they are, in a word, fat. This from the Daily Mail: Four obese children are on the brink of being permanently removed […]
It was flat-out strange seeing John Kasay kick for a team other than Carolina, but still cool watching him stick two between the uprights – even if it was for the Saints.
Labor Day comes and goes each year and the reason for it fades into the past. Then comes the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne to remind us: In an opinion typical of the left wing media, Dionne makes the vain attempt to portray Republicans, Fox News, the Tea Party and those of similar views as opponents […]
