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Chuck is in deep trouble

Silvio Canto, Jr.
10/3/2025 5:00:00 AM
Chuck is in deep trouble : It's entertaining to watch the Democrats defend their decision to close down the government. Yes they did, no matter how many times they try to blame the Orange Man. In other words, Chuck has a bad hand and he knows it.   Click to read:        https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/10/chuck_is_in_deep_trouble.html          So why would someone like Senator Schumer do this? What's driving Chuck these days? First, the senator knows that there is an ideological and generational war involving their side. The senator also knows that he is going to get "primaried" by AOC with the support of the new mayor— Silvio Canto. Jr.[...]

October 3, 1951: "The Giants win the pennant" beating the Dodgers

Silvio Canto, Jr.
10/3/2025 3:59:27 AM

      The Dodgers-Giants rivalry is one of the greatest in sports.  In 1951, the Dodgers and Giants had a special playoff to settle the NL pennant.  It came down to the bottom of the 9th.  It was Ralph Branca vs Bobby Thomson:   At 3:58 pm, Brancas second pitch, another fastball, came in high and tight. Thomson swung, his uppercut driving the ball deep toward the corner in left. Pafko, dashing toward the high wall, ran out of room. The ball landed in the first row, just above the 315 ft. sign for a three-run home run. Game over. The Polo Grounds shook as the euphoric crowd erupted. Joe King wrote in The Sporting News, (Thomsons homer) touched off scenes in this place[...]

How do I love SPBC? Let me count the ways

W.C. Varones
10/2/2025 4:46:11 PM

     SPBC is the Simplify US Equity Plus Bitcoin ETF. Simplify is stock market genius Michael Green's (profplum99) place of business.SPBC was launched in 2021, near a Bitcoin peak with $100 million in assets. in the ensuing Bitcoin winter, SPBC was largely forgotten and dwindled down to a few million in assets. But it shouldn't have been. SPBC has outperformed just about every asset class except gold (by a nose) since its launch.The concept is simple and beautifully elegant. It's designed to give you 100% of the return of the S&P 500, plus 10% of Bitcoin. I love Bitcoin, and I love stocks. But like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, this is two great tastes that taste great together. The kicker is in the[...]

Happy government shutdown day

W.C. Varones
9/30/2025 6:04:00 AM
  It's looking like the best shutdown everThe Vought memo orders agencies to identify all programs that depend on discretionary funding (which lapses next week) and dont align with the presidents priorities. Employees who administer those disfavored programs or projects wont be furloughed. They will be fired.For small-government advocates, the beauty of this is its reset potential. When government reopens, the Trump team will hire back the fewest possible statutorily required employees at programs it already wanted to cut. For a starter list, see the more than 45 Mr. Trumps recent budget asked Congress to eliminateamong them the Economic Development Administration, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, the[...]

Christian Morality Is About Individuals, Not Groups

K T Cat
9/28/2025 7:08:17 AM

 St. Thomas Aquinas has provided us with the best definition of love.    You've got a decent chance of figuring out what "the good" is for an individual if you really get to know them. At least you can make an educated guess. You can also take steps to make sure your actions don't have destructive secondary effects on others.You've got just about no chance at all of figuring out what "the good" is for the members of a large group and you can just forget about predicting how you might harm people outside the group.I've discussed in the past how my middle brother died as a homeless addict and alcoholic. If you had exerted yourself to do "good" for him, you would have locked him away in rehab for the rest of his[...]

On Old Men And Cigars

K T Cat
9/26/2025 2:53:10 PM

After my tobacco growing experiments yielded a smokable harvest, I decided to find out if my tobacco was any good by taking up pipe smoking. I'd never smoked prior to that and even now, I smoke about twice a month. I recently decided to see what cigars were like.Recalling that Roger Moore was partial to Monte Cristo cigars, and Roger being my favorite James Bond, I stopped at our local Total Wine and More and picked up one. It was utterly sublime.At 62, I took up cigar smoking with about the same regularity as my pipe smoking. Monte Cristos are quite expensive, about $25 apiece, so I tried to find similar cigars that were less expensive. A bit of searching both here in San Diego and in Mobile, Alabama yielded a string of[...]

What Ails Us - But First Some Background

B-Daddy
4/6/2025 5:10:10 PM
Someone close to me asked me to give an overall take on the current state of politics and the prospects for our future. I thought to answer, but first want to explain how I analyze the political landscape.Here are some key principles that are worth repeating because we seem to forget them.1. A chicken is an eggs way of making another egg.      To influence the the size and numbers of your chickens, manage egg production and consumption. Demographics are destiny.2. Eggs are rare, sperm is plentiful.      Combined with 1 above, the most important variable component of demographic destiny is female reproductive behavior and strategies.3. Testosterone confers greater strength and aggression[...]

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Green Meltdown Continues as Russ Vought Axes $8 billion From Climate Crisis Projects 

Leslie Eastman

The move come shortly after funding for New York state infrastructure programs.The post Green Meltdown Continues as Russ Vought Axes $8 billion From Climate Crisis Projects first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

CDC Reports that Cases of Drug-Resistant Nightmare Bacteria Up by 70% 

Leslie Eastman

Bacteria have become resistant to carbapenems, a class of antibiotics considered a last resort treatment of serious infections.The post CDC Reports that Cases of Drug-Resistant Nightmare Bacteria Up by 70% first appeared on Legal Insurrection.