What I think about our social and political comings and goings
An Updated List of Men Accused of Sexual Abuse, Harassment, Misconduct and Assault BY ANNA MENTA ON 11/12/17 AT 7:09 PM EST – for Newsweek My cmnt: Since 2017 the list has mushroomed and by 2020 includes Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Bill Clinton. I post this list to point out that by far most of the […]
Read More The Democratic Men of #MeTooRainer Zitelmann Contributor Leadership Strategy – for Forbes The psychology of success and wealth, the power of capitalism My cmnt: slight editing for clarity and accuracy How the world was In 1820, 94% of the world’s population was living in extreme poverty. By 1910, this figure had fallen to 82%, and by 1950 the rate […]
Read More Anyone Who Doesn’t Know The Following Facts About Capitalism Should Learn ThemDear A.G., It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times. I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago. I was hired with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your pages: first-time writers, centrists, conservatives and […]
Read More Bari Weiss – Resignation LetterWeiss revealed that she was bullied by her colleagues in a scathing resignation letter By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News – July 14, 2020 Many liberal journalists shrugged off the fiery exit of New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss, some even mocking the writer over the open letter she had penned to the […]
Read More Liberal journalists dismiss, mock Bari Weiss’ departure from The New York TimesBy Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News – June 4, 2020 New York Times writer and opinion editor Bari Weiss offered insight about the internal battle among her colleagues following the publishing of an op-ed written by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark that sparked a major backlash from its own staff. Hours before the Times offered […]
Read More NY Times editor Bari Weiss says there’s a ‘civil war’ within paper amid Tom Cotton uproarMy cmnt: Alex Berenson (search for him on this site) and now Bari Weiss having to leave the NYT because of its close-minded, Left-leaning, lying editorial and reporting policies. Her resignation letter said ‘the lessons that ought to have followed the (2016) election…have not been learned’ By Brian Flood | Fox News – July 14, […]
Read More Bari Weiss quits New York Times after bullying by colleagues over views: ‘They have called me a Nazi and a racist’Black Lies Matter By Willis Eschenbach / June 20, 2020 My cmnt: click Black Lies Matter (above) and go to the entire post by Willis. He notes that BLM is completely founded upon demonstrable lies. I’ve included the photo and quote by Booker T. Washington to entice you to read the rest of the post […]
Read More A great post and clever take on BLMMAY 14, 2020|IN WIKI, KNOWLEDGE, INTERNET|BY LARRY SANGER My cmnt: I could not agree more. I will use Wikipedia for quick info on anything trivial (e.g., entertainment, historical dates, flat-facts that cannot be slanted to benefit the Left or have no political value (e.g., the atomic number of gold). For info on anything important, controversial, political, or subject to […]
Read More Wikipedia Is Badly BiasedBy JOEL B. POLLAK -10 Jul 2020 for Breitbart News My cmnt: What a great article on the parallels between President Lincoln and President Trump in the upcoming Nov 3, 2020 election and Lincoln’s 1864 re-election. Opposition from RINOs in his own party and the evil democrats in the other is striking in its replay […]
Read More Blue State Blues: Trump, Lincoln, and the Election of 1864By Judge Andrew Napolitano – July 9, 2020 – for Fox News My cmnt: I am not a fan of Napolitano and have been ignoring him as a biased anti-Trumper. He actually wanted HildeBeest (Michelle O’s nickname) elected over Trump. That is insane and kind of demented. That Napolitano has gotten too full of himself […]
Read More Judge Andrew Napolitano: America, our personal liberties are being squeezed in a viseWhen the estimable Dr. Fauci was asked about having sex with total strangers during our so-called pandemic of coronavirus he smirked and said that it was up to the individual to decide how much ‘risk’ he or she was willing to take. What a douche-bag. STDs are a plague upon America and the most the […]
Read More Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 2018By Joshua Klein – July 6, 2020 – for Breitbart news In a series of tweets today, Sen.Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) described the depth of the “Deep State” as so great that its members “get away with political crimes.” In one tweet, Grassley referred to recent remarks by Attorney General Bill Barr asserting that President Donald Trump […]
Read More Grassley: ‘The Deep State Is so Deep Its People Get Away with Political Crimes’Restraining Government in America and Around the World – Dan Mitchell – June 8, 2017 My cmnt: The point of my posting this article about Norway’s oil dependence (and the sister column on Denmark’s oil dependence, and I could add Canada also) is that these are all small (population) northern latitude, homogenous countries with a […]
Read More Norway’s Version of the Resource CurseThor Pedersen on the importance of the North Sea to the Danish economy and welfare By Ulla Lena og Joachim Møller Pallesen – Sept. 20, 2016 My cmnt: My point in posting this column (and its sister blog on Norway) is that welfare states are counter productive to work and that the more benefits provided […]
Read More The North Sea oil is crucial to Danish welfareKevin McCullough|Posted: Jul 05, 2020 11:00 AM – for Townhall.com The single most important domestic issue of our time is not the rising number of new people testing positive for COVID-19. Deaths have hit all-time lows. The single most important domestic issue of our time is not even the continued economic hardship of a nation […]
Read More Six Weeks, Six Cities, 600 MurdersJULY 5, 2020 News Source: The Gateway PunditRead the full story here. Published by: The Daily Reformer. Six Democrat-led cities accounted for 600 deaths over a 6 week period. Unfortunately there were more deaths this week and BLM doesn’t care. After explaining that the coronavirus and the economy were not the most pressing issues in the US […]
Read More After 600 Deaths in 6 Democrat Cities in 6 Weeks – There Was Even More Carnage this Holiday WeekendBy Tammy Bruce – – Wednesday, June 10, 2020 – for the Washington Times My cmnt: We certainly have noticed that Libs and democrats have nothing bad to say about all those people NOT practicing social distancing in mass protests. But we can’t go to church or even a baseball game which are held outdoors. This simply […]
Read More Democrats exploit well-meaning passions in cities seeking reliefBy Dan O’Donnell – Jul 30, 2019 – for NewsTalk 1130 WISN President Trump is under fire for a series of tweets blasting Rep. Elijah Cummings’ (D-MD) home district of Baltimore as a “very dangerous & filthy place.” While the President’s critics have focused on the perceived racial focus of the tweets, they have fastidiously avoided […]
Read More The Most Violent Cities in America are All Run by Democratsby Walter E. WILLIAMS – January 23, 2019 for AP News My cmnt: It sure as hell is NOT the black citizens of those cities who overwhelmingly vote democrat each and every election. Time for a change? In 1976, Gerald Ford won 15 percent of the black vote. That’s the most of any recent Republican […]
Read More Who benefits from Democratic control of cities?By JOHN KASS -AUG 19, 2016 AT 7:27 PM for the Chicago Tribune My cmnt: Note that this column was written in August of 2016 but it could have been written today in July of 2020. Democrats still run all of the worst cities in America, where crime, murder, mayhem, failed public schools, black unemployment, abortion mills and […]
Read More Road to urban despair paved by DemocratsFeb. 28, 2012 – CNSnews.com On Feb. 16, Roman Catholic Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., testified in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in opposition to the Obama administration’s new regulation that will force all health-care plans in the United States to cover sterilizations and all Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptive, including […]
Read More The Parable of the Kosher DeliTed Noel|Posted: Jun 11, 2020 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com My cmnt: I of course agree with Dr. Ted Noel. Nobody handed me nor my family on either side anything because we were white. My maternal grandfather arrived in Texas from the Czech Republic in the early 1900s on a cattle boat (which is what it […]
Read More Willful Ignorance on Display in the Slavery Reparations DebateLaura Ingraham coined the epigram Birkenstock Bolsheviks to describe the rich, white, spoiled, trust fund babies who are illegally pulling down statues and making all the noise and most of the violence today. Riddled with white guilt and white privilege they have found a home in the democrat party along with the Squad, who though […]
Read More Birkenstock Bolsheviks, Limousine Liberals & the Democrat partyAuthors: Robert Rector and Vijay Menon – for The Heritage Foundation April 5, 2018 SUMMARY The true cost of welfare or aid to the poor is largely unknown because the spending is fragmented into myriad programs. Current welfare is focused largely on increasing benefits and enrollments and redistributing income. Self-defeating behaviors that increase the need for assistance […]
Read More Understanding the Hidden $1.1 Trillion Welfare System and How to Reform ItFY 2020 OBLIGATED AMOUNT $3.4 TrillionData as of March 31, 2020 USAspending.gov
Read More U.S. Federal FY 2020 spendingBy AWR HAWKINS 29 Jun 2020 for Breitbart News More than 60 people were shot, 16 fatally, over the course of the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. On Sunday morning Breitbart News reported at least 20 had been shot in a 24-hour time-frame running from Friday at 4 p.m. to Saturday at 4 p.m. Seven […]
Read More More than 60 People Shot, 16 Killed, over Weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s ChicagoBy WARNER TODD HUSTON 29 Jun 2020 for Breitbart News Thousands packed the streets in Chicago for an unofficial gay pride march despite Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the first openly gay mayor, canceling the official annual event because of her worries over the coronavirus. Organizers insisted that the rally held in the city’s West Side Lakeview neighborhood was […]
Read More Chicago Pride March Draws Thousands Despite Mayor’s Coronavirus RulesWayne Allyn Root|Posted: Jun 28, 2020 12:01 AM for Townhall.com My cmnt: Wayne says below what I have told my own children. Nobody handed me nor my family on either side anything because we were white. My maternal grandfather arrived in Texas from the Czech Republic in the early 1900s on a cattle boat (which […]
Read More Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About White PrivilegeThe Babylon Bee – Sept 1, 2018 RIVERDALE, NY—31-year-old Darlene Austin has always been an avid supporter of socialism, but she recently had an eye-opening experience. “At a vegan cafe, I met a guy from Venezuela,” Austin explained. “I asked him about how great it must be to live in a country working to end […]
Read More Millennial Drops Support For Socialism After Learning How Hard It Is To Get Avocado Toast In VenezuelaFour women over the past few decades have publicly accused Bill Clinton of sexual assault or harassment. One woman accused Clinton of raping her. Amid ongoing national attention on issues of sexual assault and workplace harassment, Democrats and others on the left are beginning to reexamine their response to the allegations against Clinton. by Eliza […]
Read More These are the sexual-assault allegations against Bill ClintonThe New Yorker: The Talk of the Town October 5, 1998 Issue My cmnt: Both Toni Morrison and Ta-Nehisi Coates (see article below this one) are missing the point. Morrison trying to inject racism into Clinton’s self-inflicted problems and crimes is not helpful nor is Coates blaming Clinton’s prosecution for sexual assault on vague power […]
Read More Tony Morrison: Clinton is our first Black presidentThe Babylon Bee – May 15, 2020 My cmnt: This is more than just bogus and sad – this is bizarre. Joe Biden is obviously suffering from senile dementia. We are not blaming him for losing his cognitive faculties we are blaming the democrat/media establishment for shamelessly using him for their own ends. This is […]
Read More Biden Campaign Hires Interpreter To Translate His Speeches Into Englishby Frank Furedi / October 13, 2016 for Prospect Magazine UK “Speech codes are now littered with words that are ambiguous and opaque” The first time I was told off for using “inappropriate language,” I thought my colleague was joking. We were university professors and speaking freely should come with the territory. But during the […]
Read More The Orwellian UniversityIs it transphobic to say women get periods? Don’t be daft, says Ella Whelan According to the latest Twitter meltdown, using the shorthand of ‘women’ when referring to ‘people who menstruate’ is not just pedantic, it’s transphobic – it doesn’t include the gender non-binary individuals who have periods. An article arguing for greater investment in menstrual […]
Read More J K Rowling is not transphobic: people who menstruate are womenby Emma Colton, Social Media Manager | June 09, 2020 12:17 PM |The Washington Examiner Democratic lawmakers wearing Ghanaian kente sashes during a tribute to George Floyd were mocked online for the move. A group of Democrats, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, knelt in the Capitol building on Monday for nearly nine minutes, […]
Read More Democrats blasted for ‘virtue signaling’ by wearing African sashes during George Floyd tributeBy DYLAN GWINN – 1 Jun 2020 for Breitbart News My cmnt: This is incredible. More censorship from the Left. We are living under Orwellian speech codes which is truly a frightening development. Sacramento Kings announcer Grant Napear has been placed on administrative leave by the radio station he works for, after posting “All Lives […]
Read More NBA Announcer Suspended for ‘All Lives Matter’ CommentAugust 2012My unpublished column on Charlie Rogers below: There was a movie in 1981 called ‘Absence of Malice’ starring Paul Newman and Sally Field. My wife and I went to it and enjoyed the film. It not only contained excellent actors but an intriguing plot that raised all kinds of moral and ethical questions. […]
Read More So-called Hate Crime laws hurt us all (Charlie Rogers, Matthew Shepard, Tawana Brawley, Duke Lacrosse players, Anita Hill, Jussie Smollett)The U.S. contemplates sending military aircraft and possible ground troops to rescue the Yazidis, as more American military advisers arrive in Iraq to help plan an evacuation of the displaced people. BY AVI ASHER-SCHAPIRO, FOR NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NEWS PUBLISHED AUGUST 11, 2014 My cmnt: Part of my interest in these people is: I have had an extended Yazidi […]
Read More Who Are the Yazidis, the Ancient, Persecuted Religious Minority Struggling to Survive in Iraq?JEROME HUDSON 22 May 2020 – for Breitbart.news Joe Biden saying, “You ain’t black” if you’re on the fence about voting for him over President Donald Trump is beyond insulting. Am I insulted? Hell yes. Am I surprised? Hell no. I’ve been called a coon “with bad African blood” because my skin is black, and I’ve never, […]
Read More A Deplorable Moment for Every Black American in This CountryKevin McCullough|Posted: Apr 23, 2020 3:30 PM There is simply no other way to state this. Nearly everything we’ve been told about models, rates of infection, deaths, and recoveries was inaccurate. I’m not here to argue that it was malfeasance or ignorance — both are unacceptable. But the one thing that Governor Andrew Cuomo’s stunning […]
Read More Antibody Testing: Proves We’ve Been Had!Is this endless shutdown of America about flattening the curve or flattening the economy? Even as the Red (Republican) states are opening up the Blue (democrat) states are continuing to stay shut down. Why is this and how did this get started in the first place? Originally we were told that the shutdown – which […]
Read More Flattening the Curve or Flattening the EconomyDennis Prager|Posted: May 05, 2020 12:01 AM Opinion – TownHall.com The idea that the worldwide lockdown of virtually every country other than Sweden may have been an enormous mistake strikes many — including world leaders; most scientists, especially health officials, doctors and epidemiologists; those who work in major news media; opinion writers in those media; […]
Read More The Worldwide Lockdown may be the greatest mistake in HistoryThe disaster of the Wuhan Chinese Coronavirus (Covid-19) is not so much the virus itself or its impact on the health of the world but rather the incredibly crazed reaction the world and more importantly America has had to it. This virus is no more deadly or virile than the seasonal flu that hits the […]
Read More Never AgainEssentially we have this: Leftists and other democrats lie, cheat, steal and murder to get what they want. Starting with the Russian revolution in 1917 (or even the French revolution in 1799*) opportunistic communists have been trying to destroy freedom and empower themselves in the name of security, hope, change, and equality and are continuing […]
Read More Covert Covid thoughtsWhile doing a little online research on Steven Spielberg’s films I read the Newsweek article from December 8, 1997 on slavery in America. This article deals at length with his film ‘Amistad’. I was interested in Spielberg’s statement that he did not receive any money from the profits of his film ‘Schindler’s List’ as he […]
Read More Race and the LeftSeptember 17, 2019 | Jason Morgan, PhD for tfp.org – Tradition, Family & Property Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino,Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2019) More than any other country, the United States is rooted in ideals. Americans share no common ethnicity or religion, and […]
Read More The Kavanaugh Hearings: When Justice Was On TrialBy Elise Cooper for The American Thinker July 21, 2019 Justice on Trial by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino is a powerful book, whatever a person’s political affiliation. This story reads more like a novel than a fact-filled book. It explains the historical context of the court nomination system and how political and cultural trends change the […]
Read More The Kavanaugh Hearing RevisitedThree columns here: Two on Benghazi and Obama’s and Hillary’s lies about everything that happened there and then another column on how Ellen is now friends w/ George Bush and how the Libs are rewriting history about how badly they lied and treated him when it actually mattered when he was president. The Damning Dozen: […]
Read More What difference does it make?With the further politicalization of science by the world’s Leftists and nature worshipers we must all be on our guard against false claims of ‘science’ and scientists who, like in the former Soviet Union and Russia today, demand consensus rather than actual observations to be the determining factor in what is science and what is not. Wall […]
Read More Concerned Scientists Reply on Global Warming
