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Where is Sam Donaldson when we really need him?

Silvio Canto, Jr.
9/12/2024 5:00:00 AM
Where is Sam Donaldson when we really need him?: Once upon a time, there was Sam Donaldson reporting from the White House on Peter Jennings' nightly newscast on ABC.   It was my favorite for a long time because you felt that Sam was shooting straight.   Click to read:              Where is Sam Donaldson when we really need him? - American Thinker https://t.co/Ps73sHtr4y— Silvio Canto. Jr. (silvio_canto) September 11, 2024

A good day for Jack and Nikita

Silvio Canto, Jr.
9/12/2024 5:04:42 AM
A good day for Jack and Nikita - American Thinker https://t.co/B8fyChebRo Silvio Canto. Jr. (silvio_canto) September 12, 2024 In early June 1961, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and USSR Chairman Nikita Khrushchev had an important meeting in Vienna. There are many viewpoints about what happened, but the consensus is that the Soviet leader pushed his way around the new U.S. president. In his book about President Kennedy, Richard Reeves concluded that Kennedy was totally unprepared for the summit. It's hard to believe, but apparently no one told President Kennedy that Chairman Khrushchev was testing him.    Wonder if the two men joked about September 12th or an important anniversary that[...]

There Is No Plan For The "Migrants"

K T Cat
9/9/2024 2:56:55 PM

Absolutely none.The town of Springfield, Ohio has a population of 58,000. Well, it had a population of 58,000. It now has a population of 78,000, thanks to the addition of 20,000 Haitians. Haiti is what it is due to the presence of large numbers of Haitians. Now, all the glories of that, err, diversity are coming to Springfield.People are coming to the reasonable conclusion that it's probably time to leave.  Absolutely HEARTBREAKING moment Springfield, Ohio, resident tells mayor that she "can't take it anymore" as Haitian migrants squat on her lawn, litter in her yard and harass her and elderly husband daily. The mayor of Springfield does NOT want people to see this: pic.twitter.com/OJtAy7LSXX captive dreamer[...]

The Best Thing About Queer Theory

K T Cat
9/8/2024 9:00:00 AM
 ... is that you don't need to know much of anything. All you need to know is which groups are doing well and which are not. Nothing else matters.Unlike gay identity, which, though deliberately proclaimed in an act of affirmation, is nonetheless rooted in the positive fact of homosexual object-choice, queer identity need not be grounded in any positive truth or in any stable reality. As the very word implies, "queer" does not name some natural kind or refer to some determinate object; it acquires its meaning from its oppositional relation to the norm. Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers. It is an identity[...]

"Democracy" may not be on the ballot, but freedom of speech certainly is

W.C. Varones
8/22/2024 7:39:06 AM
This idiot was actually a high school teacher, indoctrinating kids with these Orwellian lies:Walz making an alarming and false claim: "There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy."Walz is wrong, of course: The First Amendment, which vigorously protects Americans' free speech rights, does not distinguish between good information and misinformation. Moreover, so-called hate speechan arbitrary category, as different people find different sorts of speech to be hatefulis quite obviously protected.Combine that with the Biden-Harris administration's long record of brutal censorship (see disinformation czar Nina Jankowitz, Twitter Files...), the First Amendment is on the[...]

Nailed it

W.C. Varones
7/22/2024 7:01:16 AM

Twitter (X):            To be fair, though, I thought they'd come up with someone more appealing than Cackles Harris.

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,[...]

Defunding Minneapolis

B-Daddy
6/8/2020 10:05:46 PM

Which would be the result of actually implementing this whole #DefundThePolice nonsense.  To catch you up:From The Guardian:The Minneapolis city council has pledged to disband the citys police department and replace it with a new system of public safety, a historic move that comes as calls to defund law enforcement are sweeping the US.  Speaking at a community rally on Sunday, a veto-proof majority of council members declared their intent to dismantle and abolish the embattled police agency responsible for George Floyds death and build an alternative model of community-led safety. The decision is a direct response to the massive protests that have taken over American cities in the last two weeks, and is a[...]

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[...]

Brown U. and Claremont McKenna College Join U. Chicago in Defending Free Speech

Mike LaChance
It's about time someone did, right? The College Fix reports. Brown University, Claremont McKenna College join U. Chicago in defending of free speech Two universities have joined the University of Chicago in defending the importance of free speech and of students being exposed to different points of view. As noted by Reasons Robby Soave, Claremont []The post Brown U. and Claremont McKenna College Join U. Chicago in Defending Free Speech first appeared on College Insurrection.

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 []The post College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults first appeared on College Insurrection.

Hollywood Bowl Cancels Show after Heat Wave Melts Southern California Grid 

Leslie Eastman

Rolling blackouts are back, babyThe post Hollywood Bowl Cancels Show after Heat Wave Melts Southern California Grid first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

LA Times Columnist Blames Republicans for Democrat-Dominated Californias Failures 

Leslie Eastman

Meanwhile, longtime former California Democratic legislative leader Gloria Romero has just announced she is leaving the Democratic Party for the GOP.The post LA Times Columnist Blames Republicans for Democrat-Dominated Californias Failures first appeared on Legal Insurrection.