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Friday, June 1, 2018
Gagging on Gowdy
I bit my tongue when I heard Rep. Trey Gowdy essentially give the bad actors at the top of the FBI a pass during a recent Fox interview.
Starbucks on Shaky Grounds With Planned Parenthood
Your tax dollars aren’t the only thing supporting Planned Parenthood — proceeds from your daily coffee may be too!
The Past Is Once Again Giving Valuable Hints to the Future: This Summer’s Texas Heat!
This June could challenge the hottest June on record in Texas. What’s astounding is that two of the five following-year accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) analogs we have been using since last October — 1934 and 2011 — are two of the hottest.
Roseanne’s Spontaneous Combustion
In retrospect, everyone said ABC should have known this was going to happen.
Danger of Authoritarianism May Come From the Center, Not the Right
“Across Europe and North America, centrists are the least supportive of democracy, the least committed to its institutions and the most supportive of authoritarianism.” So wrote political researcher David Adler in The New York Times after analyzing responses to two multi-country surveys on values.
Children, ‘Animals’ and Immigrants
Maybe you’ve seen the video of the hero the French have dubbed “Spider-Man.” When he saw a toddler dangling off a fourth-story balcony, he scaled the exterior of the Paris building in about 30 seconds to save the child.
How Many Divisions Does the Deep State Have?
During the so-called McCarthy era, a single question cut across all partisan and philosophical lines: Were you on Sen. Joe McCarthy’s side or not? McCarthy’s conspiratorial, bullying, blunderbuss anti-communism and “red-baiting” was either defensible or it wasn’t.
Roseanne, Trump and the Myth of Conservatives’ Racism
Roseanne Barr posted what many are convinced was a racist tweet, and ABC summarily canceled her sitcom. As Roseanne is considered a Donald Trump supporter and Trump is widely accused of racism, people are loosely smearing Trump as responsible for her, however indirectly.
The Media’s Double Standards
Roseanne Barr, on Twitter, compared Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett to an ape. Given the long history of racists in this country comparing black people to apes, claiming Roseanne’s remark was not racist is something the fringe might debate, but decent people agree on. The remark was racist and she was fired.
Why Aren’t Liberals Celebrating Higher Gas Prices? It’s What They Want
With consumer confidence at a 17-year high and economic prospects looking relatively strong, congressional Democrats have taken to grousing about the gas pump as a midterm strategy.
Democrats’ Dishonesty Hands Trump a Winning Issue
How evil is MS-13? Last year, two gang members in Texas reportedly murdered a teenage girl as an offering to Satan. According to prosecutors, the gang leader (known as “Diabolico”) told the young girl that “the Beast” wanted “a soul” before having his partner shoot her in the head and dump her body on a street corner.
Thursday, May 31, 2018
ABC Doesn’t Hate Roseanne; It Hates Her Viewers
There’s no doubt that what Roseanne Barr tweeted the other day regarding Valerie Jarrett was racist. But did ABC Entertainment go too far when it canceled her television show?
Forging a Better Strategy on Iran
To hear many in the media tell it, President Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal was the worst thing to happen since he was elected.
Trump in Tennessee
President Trump delivered a rousing speech in Nashville, Tennessee, Tuesday night. He appeared to speak off the cuff for nearly an hour to a raucous audience. As usual, Trump tackled a lot of issues, but he really zeroed in on immigration.
A Lessen of Liberty in North Korea
The worst part of the State Department’s new report on international religious freedom isn’t the stories it tells but the ones it doesn’t.
How McConnell Is Winning the Long Game
Franklin Roosevelt, afflicted by the disease at age 39, died in April 1945 at the polio recuperation facility he had created in Warm Springs, Georgia. Before then, Mitch McConnell living in Five Points, Alabama, began going there for treatment for the polio that struck him at age 2, in 1944.
The Carnivores of Civil Liberties
After a landslide loss in the 1972 presidential election, the Democratic Party was resuscitated the following year by the Watergate scandal. The destruction of the Nixon presidency powered the Democrats to make huge political gains in the 1974 elections.
Harvey Weinstein and the Clinton Protection Racket
Harvey Weinstein’s recent perp walk reminds me of another great thing about Trump winning the election: Hillary Clinton isn’t president.
Ireland Makes Its Decision on Abortion
The scientific, moral and theological battle between life as an “endowed unalienable” right and the evolutionary view that we are just material and energy shaped by pure chance in a random universe with no author of life, no purpose for living and no destination after we die has been won in Ireland by the evolutionists.
