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Oreck used to be one of the biggest names in the vacuum cleaner business. Ten years after he sold his company, David Oreck reflects on what happened. BY ERIK SHERMAN, CONTRIBUTOR, INC.COM@ERIKSHERMAN – for INC.com My cmnt: My 87 yr old mother had an Oreck lightweight vacuum for 20 years and after she passed I took […]
Read More Oreck Founder: Private Equity Bankrupted My CompanyBy JAMES P. PINKERTON – FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR – June 21, 2021 for The Daily Caller “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,” by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, is a classic text for the left. The book, published in 1988 and still in print today, argues that corporate and governmental control of the news […]
Read More How Manufactured Consent Collapsed The COVID-19 NarrativeANDREW KERR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER – for The Daily Caller – July 01, 2021 My cmnt: Getting rich off of ‘public service’ is as old as the democrat party. Like the Black Lives Matter co-founder hypocritically buying million dollar homes and Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the Clintons and so many other democrats getting rich off of […]
Read More Stacey Abrams Purchased Two Homes Valued At $1.4 Million After Reporting Massive Debts In 2018By MIKE HUCKABEE Published on June 21, 2021 – for Stream.org My cmnt: China has been aggressively paying-off prominent American corporations for years. The NBA, Apple, Big Green, Nike and anyone else who is dependent upon their cheap and slave labor to produce their goods. Like all communists their ultimate goal is world domination and control – same […]
Read More Info From Chinese Defector Might Change the Course of HistoryHad a conservative made these comments they would have been immediately canceled by the outrage mob By PAUL SACCA -February 06, 2021 – for The Blaze New York Times bestselling author and founder of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research Ibram X. Kendi made remarks on video that some are classifying as “transphobic.” The left-wing […]
Read More ‘Antiracist’ Ibram X. Kendi caught on video making remarks that some say are ‘transphobic’Cal Thomas | Posted: Jun 29, 2021 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com My cmnt: Politicians used to have to be at least a little clever in their lies, usually throwing in some half-truths to throw off the unwary. The press used to have a modicum of conscience and at least some ethical standards to call […]
Read More Lying with a Straight FacePosted on June 16, 2021 by Dan Mitchell – for The Center for Freedom and Prosperity I was a big fan of (and occasional guest on) John Stossel’s TV show, and I’m now a big fan of his videos (see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here). So it was an honor to appear in his latest video about “Capitalism Myths.” It’s a two-part series. […]
Read More Defending Capitalism: Part IPosted on June 22, 2021 by Dan Mitchell In the first video, we discussed three myths about free enterprise. Myth #1 – Capitalists get rich by ‘taking’ money from others. Myth #2 – The rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer. Myth #3 – Monopolies destroyed the free market. Here are the final four myths. […]
Read More Defending Captialism: Part IIJohn Stossel | Posted: Jun 23, 2021 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com Last week, I debunked three myths about capitalism. Here are four more: Myth No. 4: Capitalism creates unsafe workspaces. “Greedy capitalists” will risk workers’ lives to increase production if government, through agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, doesn’t […]
Read More Capitalism Makes Us Better OffBy 10/11 NOW Published: Jun. 23, 2021 at 11:23 AM UTC|Updated: 27 minutes ago LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – Two women are facing shoplifting charges stemming from incidents throughout the last year. The Lincoln Police Department arrested 30-year-old Morgan Newsom and 40-year-old Alisha Wilson. On January 31, were dispatched to Menards off N 27th Street for […]
Read More LPD: Women arrested after stealing $1,400 worth of items from MenardsWhy Evolution is Different Section 5.1 appeared at Evolution News and Views (www.evolutionnews.org) September 2, 2014 (see also the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJua-0FpmnI). 5.1 Why Evolution is Different In the current debate between Darwinism and intelligent design, the strongest argument made by Darwinists is this: in every other field of science, naturalism has been spectacularly successful, […]
Read More Why Evolution is DifferentBy Michael Haskoor @Tweetskoor Jun 5, 2021 at 11:26am – for Decider.com My cmnt: Maher is right again. College, especially in the liberal arts, is a waste of money and time. The list of worthless degrees grows longer every year. The dumbing down of college is the natural result of full-ride scholarships for athletes who would not be […]
Read More Bill Maher Says College Is A Scam Just Like ScientologyBy KYLE SMITH – April 26, 2021 – for National Review On HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night, Maher showed once again that he is the only late-night comic who is willing to say things his liberal audience probably doesn’t want to hear. In the course of lavishing praise on President Biden, whom he described as […]
Read More Bill Maher Blasts Young Progressives: ‘The Problem Is That Your Ideas Are Stupid’By Will Feuer June 4, 2021 | 1:08pm | Updated – for The New York Post Billionaire buddies Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are teaming up to build a nuclear reactor — on the site of a coal plant that’s being phased out in Wyoming. Nuclear reactor design company TerraPower, which Gates founded about 15 years ago, and power company […]
Read More Bill Gates, Warren Buffett building nuclear reactor in coal-rich WyomingAuthorities should worry about worsening vaccine hesitancy by pushing low-risk kids to get jabbed, med school professors warn. By Greg Piper – June 13, 2021 11:11am – for Just the News My cmnt: the CDC has lost all credibility with many of us and pushing vaccination on children is just the latest load of feces coming […]
Read More CDC claims COVID-19 kills ‘healthy young children’ as doctors push back on vaccinating kidsBy Eliza Relman and Sonam Sheth May 4, 2020, 9:45 AM – for the Business Insider Joe Biden’s former staffer, Tara Reade, says the former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee, assaulted her in 1993. Reade’s Senate ID card can be seen on the right. Associated Press, Tara Reade Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is facing […]
Read More Here are all the times Joe Biden has been accused of acting inappropriately toward women and girlsBy JOHN NOLTE – 6 Oct 2017 – for Breitbart News My cmnt: I post this not only because it is so true and still relevant today but because I want to emphasize that all of this #MeToo business was really about an attempt by many of these victims of democrat men to try to […]
Read More Silence is Complicity – The Powerful Said Nothing as Harvey Weinstein’s Alleged Victims Piled UpIn 2007 and 2011, Bezos did not pay any money in federal income tax. By Nicholas Sherman – June 8, 2021 – for Just the News My cmnt: As a resident of Nebraska we know a little about Warren Buffet. He makes a big show of still living in the same modest house for a jillion […]
Read More Bezos, Musk, Buffet among US’s wealthiest use IRS loopholes to pay zero, little federal income taxBuffett and wife Susan lived apart for almost 30 years but never divorced Her friend became billionaire’s mistress and second wife after her death All three sent out joint Christmas cards every year with their three names at the bottom By MEGHAN KENEALLY UPDATED: 16:25 EDT, 13 January 2012 – for The Daily Mail The affable demeanor […]
Read More Warren Buffet breaks down in tears at the mention of his first wife who died of oral cancerThe most shocking thing about the Jessica Krug scandal is that people are shocked by it.
Read More ‘White Lie’ professor Jessica Krug exposes the fallacy of identity politicsIdentities are tricky. They can be assigned to us — and sometimes we assert them. They are socially constructed, but they’re not entirely fictive.
Read More Jessica Krug, Rachel Dolezal and America’s white women who want to be BlackTwo years ago, she was a respected black rights activist and teacher. Then she was exposed as a white woman who had deceived almost everyone she knew. Why did she do it? By Decca Aitkenhead Sat 25 Feb 2017 04.00 EST – for The Guardian Rachel Dolezal: ‘I began to see the world through black […]
Read More Rachel Dolezal: ‘I’m not going to stoop and apologize and grovel’By Jon Levine – July 4, 2020 – for The New York Post She still sees herself as black — and yearns to play a role in the push for racial equality. But Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who claimed to be African-American in 2015, sparking a national scandal, shrugs off the years of shaming that […]
Read More Rachel Dolezal, who posed as black, ‘vindicated’ by Black Lives Matter movementBy CHARLES C. W. COOKE – February 11, 2021 11:24 AM – for National Review Mandalorian cast members Pedro Pascal and Gina Carano at the premiere of the television series in Los Angeles, Calif., November 13, 2019 (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) Gina Carano, the actress who plays Cara Dune on Disney+’s The Mandalorian, has been fired by Lucasfilm for her social […]
Read More Gina Carano’s Firing Is the Product of Yet More CalvinballWith the former president reportedly discussing a return to office “sooner than you think,” what are some of the theoretical pathways back to the White House? By Sophie Mann – Updated: June 7, 2021 – 10:26pm – for Just the News The ever-churning rumor mill surrounding former President Donald Trump has, in recent days, produced a new […]
Read More Scenarios for an early Trump return to power: the feasible, the far-fetched and the fantasyVijay Jayaraj | Posted: Dec 12, 2020 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com Editor’s note: this column was coauthored by Calvin Beisner. My cmnt: I included the chart below to show that the climate always changes but man-made global warming is a scare tactic that is not happening. The climate warms and cools all the time. […]
Read More Healthy Polar Bears and Thriving Tigers: The Common Climate TaleBy Haris Alic June 2, 2021 – for News Daylight My cmnt: All right enough of this nonsense. Electric cars are NOT the future. In typical democrat, Lib-think they kick a problem down the road and consider it solved. The first problem is electricity generation. Libs hate both coal and natural gas and nuclear powered […]
Read More Roadwork ahead: Joe Biden’s electric vehicle future heading for huge potholesVia Hendrix Tue, June 1, 2021, 2:29 PM·8 min read – for Yahoo News or Insider.com My cmnt: In Tokyo, Japan business men and office workers commute at the beginning of each work week into Tokyo to their places of employment. It is too expensive and time consuming to commute every day so they stay […]
Read More I’m 21 and live in a 72-square-foot NYC apartment that costs $1,345 a month. Here’s what a day in my life looks like.Katie Pavlich | Posted: May 28, 2021 11:40 PM – for Townhall.com My cmnt: Fauci is a lying, little troll. He lied about AIDS in the 80s, lied about sexual hook-ups with strangers during the Covid pandemic being up to the discretion of the participants while demagoguing the unnecessary step of closing all of the […]
Read More The Supposed ‘Hero of the Pandemic’ Was Actually the VillainWhat’s the difference between a liberal and a leftist? By Dennis Prager for Prager U on Facebook This question stumps most people because they think liberal and left are essentially the same. But they’re not. In fact, liberalism and leftism have almost nothing in common. But the left has appropriated the word “liberal” so effectively […]
Read More Liberal vs. LeftistA recent study by the American Psychological Association reported that nearly a quarter of adults were drinking more to manage stress during the pandemic By Kerry J. Byrne – May 29, 2021 – for The New York Post My cmnt: As I noted in a previous post on drinking alcohol I am a lifelong teetotaler. So now, […]
Read More Why the hot new alcohol trend is cutting back — or even quittingRiley Johnson Nov 23, 2020 Updated Dec 29, 2020 – for The Lincoln Journal Star The effort to recall Lincoln’s mayor and a majority of the City Council because of their actions during the pandemic officially launched Monday outside City Hall, the site of an August hearing that galvanized recall organizers to seek the ousters. LNK Recall organizers […]
Read More Effort to recall Lincoln mayor, council members underway; opponents implore residents to decline to signMy cmnt: Propagandized, guilty, white college educated young women believe everything fed to them by the MSM and the democratic party in the bubble they live in. They will never protest actual violence against black people in this country perpetrated by abortion and black-on-black riots, crime, shootings and murder in democrat-run cities with the strictest […]
Read More Photo essay: Biden voters protest and riot in LincolnMy cmnt: I’ve been to dozens of completely peaceful Pro-Life protests (except for the counter protesters using bullhorns to yell in our faces) in Lincoln over the decades. We clean up after ourselves, are compliant with police orders, march prayerfully and quietly, have permits, and most of us are Republicans. My cmnt: During the ‘summer […]
Read More A costly night of violence, vandalism and chaos tops $10 million in damagesBy Peter Salter Jun 3, 2020 Updated Mar 26, 2021 – for The Lincoln Journal Star The glass-fronted office building near 14th and H streets should be busier this week, filled with some of the 20 staffers of the Nebraska Association of County Officials. They should be there tweaking software for county assessors, fielding questions from far-flung […]
Read More Lincoln mauled: One night of crime, more than $10 million in damageBy Lori Pilger Nov 20, 2020 Updated Dec 31, 2020 – for the Lincoln Journal Star A warrant has gone out for the arrest of a 25-year-old Lincoln man, wanted in connection to nearly $17,000 in damage to windows along Lincoln Mall early May 31. Police say the destruction was caught on video, the man […]
Read More Warrant out for Lincoln man accused of smashing windows while dressed as Deadpool during riotsLincoln Journal Star Dec 7, 2020 Updated Apr 20, 2021 Shot fired amid the criminal chaos of May 30, 2020 nearly hits Lincoln officer Lori Pilger Dec 2, 2020 Updated Feb 24, 2021 My cmnt: I will keep this brief as I’ve posted much about this already on this site. The original sin of the […]
Read More Revisiting Lincoln racial justice demonstrations, riots 6 months laterTHIS JUST IN… THE NFL FOUND 23 ADDITIONAL POINTS FOR THE CHIEFS FROM MAIL-IN TOUCHDOWNS, AND, BASED ON OUTCRY FROM LIBERALS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, HAS AWARDED THE SUPER BOWL WIN TO THE CHIEFS. We all went to bed last Sunday at midnight thinking Tom Brady had won the Super Bowl. Now we read on the […]
Read More What if the Super Bowl was treated like the 2020 Presidential electionBy Larry Getlen – for The New York Post May 28, 2021 | 12:50pm | Updated My cmnt: Sinead’s life was one, apparently, of abuse starting at a young age. She’s obviously looking for or running from something. Sinéad O’Connor was already a world-famous singer with a No. 1 record — but that didn’t stop a man she barely knew […]
Read More Sinéad O’Connor: How I survived hellish night with ‘devil’ PrinceComorbidities are downgraded as causal factors in death when they overlap with COVID, whether the latter is verified or even merely suspected. By Andrew Davies – May 29, 2021 – for Just the News My cmnt: This article may be a little hard to understand. What is being stated here is that while even an unverified […]
Read More Death and double standards: Harder to attribute mortality to vaccine than to COVID?By 10/11 NOW Published: May. 27, 2021 at 10:02 AM UTC|Updated: 3 hours ago LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – A Lincoln woman was arrested on a weapons charge and child abuse during a traffic stop with six teenagers inside her vehicle, according to the Lincoln Police Department. LPD said an SUV, which frequented a home under […]
Read More LPD: AR rifle found with teens during traffic stop, driver arrestedBy Derrek Sigler 08.13.20 – for All Outdoor We’ve all heard this one before, that “AR” stands for “Assault Rifle.” We all know full well that that is definitely false. “AR” stands for ArmaLite Rifle, coming from the AR designation used in the model and serial numbers used by all firearms produced by the company, which […]
Read More Five Myths About the AR-15By S.L. PRICE – Dec 8, 1997 – Sports Illustrated archives What do you do for a living?” Each time Kevin Little hears the question, he suffers a small crisis. He would love to say straight out, “I run fast. I am a sprinter.” But Little is tired of facing disbelief, tired of the skeptical […]
Read More Whatever happened to the White Athlete?Teams don’t consciously build rosters based on race, it just ends up that way BY JASON REID AND JANE MCMANUS – June 01, 2017 for The Undefeated It really seems ludicrous coming from Christian McCaffrey, one of college football’s most decorated players over the last two seasons. Yet there he was at the NFL combine last month, explaining he hasn’t […]
Read More The NFL’s Racial DivideSTUDIES HAVE FOUND PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES THAT MIGHT HELP EXPLAIN WHY BLACKS OUTPERFORM WHITES IN CERTAIN SPORTS–BUT SCIENTISTS ARE WARY OF JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS By S.L. PRICE – Dec 8, 1997 – Sports Illustrated archives The best athletes on the planet are black. Stop the conversationright there and few will argue the point. It’s always the […]
Read More Is it in the Genes?By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Updated 1:09 PM EDT, Fri August 24, 2018 My cmnt: Please forgive me for posting anything on my site from CNN. It’s not like I ever look at or listen to CNN it’s because my local newspaper reprinted this article that I saw it. So mea culpa and onto some clarifications before […]
Read More No amount of alcohol is good for your overall health, global study saysLilah Sturges Releases Lumberjanes Graphic Novel Latest in the series insists emotional vulnerability is cool now BY RAY EMERSON, 7:00AM, WED. OCT. 17, 2018 For the Austin Chronicle My cmnt: Matt Sturges is a creative writer. Being able to imagine what it would be like to present yourself to the world as a woman takes a lot of imagination […]
Read More Matt Sturges before and afterBy By George Costantino for Good Morning America ABC – May 13, 2021 My cmnt: Here we have the Cancel Culture rearing its ugly head once again. This 16 year old boy posted a 3 second video when he was TWELVE. He is not even doing what the MSM and hysterical, hypocritical loony left are accusing […]
Read More Caleb Kennedy ousted from ‘American Idol’ following controversial social media postBy Joe Dejka May 16, 2021 Updated May 17, 2021 – 14 min to read – Omaha World Herald Nebraska reopened its schools last August despite the advice of some medical experts, protests from teachers unions and worries it could ignite COVID-19 outbreaks. As the extraordinary school year comes to a close, education leaders say reopening […]
Read More Nebraska’s early push to reopen schools during COVID has other states playing catch-upBy Joshua Rhett Miller and Sam Raskin – May 18, 2021 – for The New York Post The savage beatdown of a woman in a Little Caesars in Georgia was caught on video — showing the suspect dragging the victim out of the pizza shop by her hair and a toddler jumping in to stop the fight. The […]
Read More Video shows wild beatdown at Little Caesars in GeorgiaU.S. government funding, bat coronavirus research, reports of sick workers, alleged involvement with gain-of-function experiments. By Daniel Payne – May 19, 2021 – for Just the News My cmnt: Type “Wuhan lab” into the search field on this site to see other posts on that smarmy little weasel Fauci’s involvement with the Chinese Wuhan lab leak […]
Read More COVID ground zero? The Wuhan lab-leak theory and the Fauci connection
