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In Texas we are not blaming guns for the school shooting

Silvio Canto, Jr.
5/23/2018 5:28:45 AM

        Student shootings are horrible events, especially for those who remember dropping off children at schools that look very much like the one near Houston.       Nevertheless, its good to see that we are not blaming guns or letting left-wing groups use high school students to carry their message.    The Los Angeles Times noticed the difference between South Florida and Houston in this report:        There was no outcry against firearms in Santa Fe after a gunman killed 10 and wounded 13 others Friday. Guns didnt come up at a prayerful vigil attended by 1,000 people that evening. On Saturday, there were no protests, and local[...]

We remember Helen O'Connell (1920-93)

Silvio Canto, Jr.
5/23/2018 12:00:06 AM

      We remember Helen O'Connell who was born in Lima, Ohio, on this day in 1920.       Her career took off in 1939 when she recorded "Green eyes" with Bob Eberly and the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra.   It was followed by other best sellers like "Tangerine" and "Amapola". In the 1950's, Helen worked on NBC's "Today Show."   She was also the hostess of the Miss Universe Pageant plus the spokeswoman for Polaroid cameras for several years. She died in 1993.

  Helen O'Connell....1920-93.... https://t.co/sivUalSdLS via amazon  Silvio Canto, Jr. (SCantojr) May 23, 2018              

There Aren't Any Rules

K T Cat
5/22/2018 6:30:57 AM
Insomnia last night and a class this morning means this is a cut-and-paste-and-comment kind of day.From the WSJ comes this story about how the Euros are upset by Trump, essentially because he's not a member of the global elite and doesn't think like they do. Take the Iran deal, for example. Who does he think he is, upsetting the apple cart? They missed the key feature of Obama's imperial presidency. The un-American imperial part.From the White House, things look very different. The Iran deal was not a legally binding instrument but the result of President Obamas overreaching freelance diplomacyas if Woodrow Wilson, counting the votes against the Treaty of Versailles, unilaterally committed the U.S. to join the League of[...]

Starbucks Is Cra-Cra

K T Cat
5/21/2018 6:43:21 AM

Is that how you spell it? Or is it cray-cray?So some Starbucks employee somewhere called the cops on non-paying loiterers in their store. The cops then led the loiterers out in handcuffs. This resulted in a stand-down of thousands of Starbucks, retraining sessions for the employees, a corporate apology and a change in policy so that anyone will be allowed to use Starbucks' restrooms.Imagine what that will look like in San Francisco or even here in downtown San Diego.This guy and his compadres may soon be part of the downtown Starbucks experience. YayThis was done because Starbucks was afraid that their workforce might be full of racists and other People of Intolerance (PoI). There's no word on whether or not Starbucks[...]

Ana Navarro Finds Out the Internet is Forever

5/18/2018 4:02:30 PM
In light of the latest liberal tempest in a tea pot over Donald Trump's characterization of MS-13 members...

  Oh my Does ananavarro remember tweeting this? pic.twitter.com/6Hk0cxfczr  Mike LaChance (MikeLaChance33) May 18, 2018

Legendary Guitar Maker Gibson Files for Bankruptcy - Thanks, Obama?

5/1/2018 7:35:39 PM

  Legendary guitar maker Gibson files for bankruptcy  The 120-year-old companys desperate move comes as annual sales of guitars have reportedly dropped to 1 million from 1.5 million a decade ago, as hip-hop music has come to dominate at the expense of guitar-fueled rock.Curiously missing from the story was the assault they were subjected to by the Obama administration just a few years back. Could this have played a part? A golden oldie from LCR, with updates by me.By the Left Coast RebelIs it any wonder that American business is dying? Is it any surprise that China and India (not to mention several European nations, Asia et al.) are eclipsing the United States in entrepreneurial activity, wealth creation[...]

Canto Talk, May 10th: Cultural Appreciation vs Cultural Appropriation

mutnodjmet13
5/9/2018 4:02:52 PM

Dear Friends: It will be my pleasure to be a guest on Canto Talk this Thursday, May 10th at 10 am PT/12 noon CT/1 pm ET. Please click HERE then for the live podcast, or after for the archived show.

Canto Talk, March 29: Spring Break in California

mutnodjmet13
3/22/2018 10:06:15 AM

Dear Reader: It is my pleasure to announce that I will be a guest on Canto Talk this Thursday, March 22, at 10 am Pacific/12 noon Central/1 pm Eastern. Click HERE for the live show, or to catch the archived podcast after.The topic will be Spring Break in California

The Fed's Quadruple Mandate

W.C. Varones
4/17/2018 6:45:45 AM
The Fed's Quadruple Mandate:1) price stability2) full employment3) facilitating large deficits by suppressing interest rates and/or monetizing debt4) supporting asset prices

CalPERS has been a net seller of stocks - but that will change

W.C. Varones
4/15/2018 9:03:38 AM

Despite CalPERS, like most government pension plans, being vastly underfunded, they're actually still paying out more money to beneficiaries than they're taking in as contributions from municipal employees and employers.CalPERS 2016-17 financial report:Look at the numbers circled in green. That's what they're putting into investments. The numbers circled in red are what they're taking out each year.The green numbers were even lower in recent years. CalPERS has been putting far less into the market than it's been taking out every year. They're belatedly starting to increase contributions, and the net contributions (green minus red) should turn positive fairly soon.To the extent CalPERS is representative of public pensions[...]

Father's Day Love

B-Daddy
6/18/2017 4:30:05 PM
As a Bible following Christian, I am often confronted with accusations of hate, along with accusing questions along the lines of what would you do if your child ______________? Father's Day is a great day to answer with the love God grants me through Jesus Christ.  I have two adult sons, and both my wife and made their upbringing our number one purpose.  Our love them is well-known and shown, so I have skin in the game to discuss this topic.  So on to the accusations.      What if your son came out as gay? I would still love him of course.  Further, I would have good advice for him, remain celibate.  This advice is given out of my love. The gay promiscuous lifestyle isn't known for its[...]

While Leftists Shoot Republicans, California Sinks Into One Party Rule

B-Daddy
6/14/2017 8:36:37 PM

Going Hugo Chavez one better, the Democrat controlled California legislator is taking action to ensure that one of their own who voted for the hated gas tax won't get recalled.  The legislator is rigging the system to make it harder and longer to recall State Senator Josh Newman (D-Fullerton) whose support for the increase made him a recall target.  From the Sacramento Bee:Democrats are pushing late-blooming bills to significantly improve state Sen. Josh Newmans odds of surviving an effort by the state GOP and others to recall him from office.The proposed changes, which became public Monday morning, would add months to the existing timeline of certifying a recall election for the ballot. The measure would virtually[...]

ASTONISHING: DEMOCRAT CALLS RUSSIAN SHENANIGANS ACT OF WAR.

barrycjacobsen
3/2/2017 7:43:11 PM

Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) today stepped alarmingly into the ether when she characterized alleged Russian interference in the November election as an act of war.Ok, let me stipulate for the court that I am against the Russians or any other foreign entity messing with our election process. But foreign governments have been doing that sort of thing since Persian gold Darics ended up in the pockets of Athenian politicians to oppose Philip of Macedon (and likely long, long before that). We certainly have gone to great lengths in the past to interfere in other nation's internal affairs, including killing their candidates and sometimes leaders (just ask Diem of S. Vietnam or Allende in Chile; or more recently Obama[...]

VIVA LA HAMILTON: OUR POP FOUNDER HAD THE ANSWER

barrycjacobsen
2/24/2017 8:00:03 AM

          SEPARATION, NOT SECESSION: GREATER FEDERALISM AND LESS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS THE ANSWER TO OUR DIFFERENCES AS A PEOPLE              With Trump's election leaving unhappy Californians as nervous as a Christian Scientist with appendicitis (if you don't get that joke, you don't understand the oxymoron that is Christian Science), some here in the Golden State are calling for secession. That is, for California to leave our Union and go its own liberal way. Trump is't their kind of President, and his vision of America not one they want to stick around for.                 Legally speaking, I think the issue of states[...]

A kinder, nicer NFL?

dawnwildman
1/20/2016 12:37:59 PM

A Kinder and Nicer NFL?Are any of you buying the new crisis management public relations campaign by the NFL, Together We Make Football? The NFL has been pushing commercials that make them look like AT&T or Hallmark. Problem is, I dont think many are falling for the new kinder and gentler NFL. The whole reason they have to clean up their act is that there have been so many bad actors in NFL with behavior stretching from bad to criminal that they had no choice but to look like they cared. And rather than really take a look at the behavior and get rid of bad players, they have them do the classic mea culpa like Ray Rice after he beat his fiance unconscious, they go away for a little while either by due process or the NFL[...]

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[...]

House Passes Prison Reform, But Senate May Not Ever See It 

Mary Chastain

Republican Senators are split between the House bill and Chuck Grassley's broader bill

Marquette Urges Students Not to Call Illegal Immigrants Illegal 

Mike LaChance

"in favor of terms such as undocumented or unauthorized immigrant

Trump says 'substantial chance' summit with Kim may be delayed

(19:01 UTC) AuBC: Trump says 'substantial chance' summit with Kim may be delayed

Trump to demand Justice Department probe whether FBI infiltrated campaign

(19:31 UTC) AuBC: Trump to demand Justice Department probe whether FBI infiltrated campaign

Trump claims 'you'll see it' when asked for proof of alleged 'SPYGATE' scandal

As he left the White House Wednesday headed to New York, President Donald Trump kept pounding away at what he's now calling the "SPYGATE" scandal after a Twitter tear on the unsubstantiated allegations earlier in the morning. Asked by reporters what proof ...

This Is Not of God: When Anti-Trump Evangelicals Confront Their Brethren

But we werent asked permission for evangelical leaders to say that Donald Trump is the president for evangelicals. In an interview later by phone, the Rev. Jonathan Falwell said he disagreed with Mr. Goldens premise that evangelicalism has been ...

College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults

Looks like many students are not prepared to be adults. The Daily Beast reports. College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults Is 18 years enough time to prepare for the stresses of being an adult? For Americas increasingly fragile college studentsthousands of whom are returning to campus in the next two weeksthe []

You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online?

Not a free college degree though Republican-American reports. How to go to Ivy League schools for free online Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale come with a lot of prestige. But another thing these famous schools are known for are their high tuition costs. Fortunately, with the popularity of open education and technology, there []