“The overarching goal of Agenda 21 is to establish international norms of personal behavior that are dictated by a group of the world’s so-called ‘enlightened elite’ who believe they know best how people ought to live therefore they should be allowed to tell the how they should live.” Americans and the American news media are […]
President Obama, in a typical speech, threatens Social Security recipients with a cutoff of their checks if the Republicans don’t do as he tells them. He wants the debt limit raised high enough that he won’t have to bother with it again until after next year’s election. His wish list is a couple of trillion […]
Mitt Romney’s candidacy boasts several strengths. He is a successful businessman, an accomplished politician, and an articulate speaker. Romney is also perceived as economically conservative. In addition to those qualities he is photogenic, which is more essential to contemporary office seekers than a coherent platform. But Romney has drawbacks as well. Some of Romney’s flaws […]
Crisis. Everything’s a crisis anymore. As political leaders in Washington seek a resolution to the restrictions posed by the Debt Limit, we are told it’s a crisis. Where is the crisis? Isn’t global warming a crisis? Isn’t HIV a crisis? We had (have) a subprime crisis. How many crises can we take? Maybe this really […]
Winston Churchill had the most tempestuous relationship with a female “friend,” Lady Astor, that could be had without being officially married. She called him a “drunk” one night at a dinner party. He replied, ‘”Lady Astor, I may be drunk now but in the morning, I will be sober. You, on the other hand, will still […]
Social media has been abuzz with condemnations for Casey Anthony. Celebrities have been tweeting their outrage while media pundits from Joy Behar to Bill O’Reilly air their displeasure with the Anthony verdict. The court of public opinion had Anthony convicted and all but executed. Anger toward Casey Anthony united this country like nothing since Pearl Harbor. […]
At least in California, where the highest-paid state employee last year was a prison surgeon who was previously fired for alleged incompetence and “has not been allowed to treat an inmate for six years because medical supervisors don’t trust his clinical skills.” He has, officials say, a history of mental illness. So now the prison […]
States and local governments across the country have been stuffing their coffers with record takes of revenue, aside from a slight hiccup during the height of the recession, according to the advocacy group Watchdog.org: State and local governments collected a record high of $322 billion in taxes the first quarter of this year, and tied the […]
As far as bodacious spin and stone-crazy rhetoric goes, this has to rank near the top of any list: the latest gruesome jobs report, which pushed the real unemployment rate past 16%, is solid evidence that the $830-billion economic stimulus package … wait for it … worked exactly according to plan. So opines The One: […]
I’m not sure how much evidence Americans need to realize the guy in the White House is a serious Communist, but the creation of Obama’s new Rural Council is about the most any hopey-changey person would want. The executive order that created the Council, signed in June and attracting scant attention, states that, “To enhance […]
