San Diego Local Order of Bloggers

We needed that punch

Silvio Canto, Jr.
2/4/2026 5:17:05 AM

     In the meantime, the lesson is clear.  You cant win unless you score runs.  You gotta get up and vote even if its another meaningless local election.Click to read:https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/02/we_needed_that_punch.html

1983: Karen Carpenter died on this day at age 32

Silvio Canto, Jr.
2/3/2026 10:03:00 PM

                        It's hard to believe but Karen Carpenter died in 1983.  It was a shock to say the least.  Later we learned that her death was related to anorexia.          What a tragic story        P.S.  You can listen to my show.  If you like our posts, please look for Donate on the right column of the blog page.                   

And So It Begins

K T Cat
2/2/2026 9:23:13 PM

Almost all of this is mine. ChatGPT helped me clean up a sentence or two, but this is almost all me.-------------------------Cats headache had gotten worse through the night. Now, with sunrise coming to the bayou, his vision had become a bit blurry from the pain. His shoulder hurt dully from where hed been burned, but worst of all was his side where the man had stabbed him with a needle. That burned like fire. Like his head, it had gotten worse.Through a slight haze, he saw the General lying on his side amidst the wreckage in the living room, panting. Cat knew his breathing too well to think he was asleep.How are you doing, Beau?Woof, replied the basset hound. The words sounded in Cats head in a rich, baritone voice. My head[...]

Why Bother Coming Here At All?

K T Cat
1/29/2026 5:44:36 AM

If the illegal alien Somalis in Minnesota are just as American as you or I the moment they step off the plane, why do they need to step off the plane at all? Why aren't the Somalis in Somalia just as American as the rest of us? Dittos for the Hondurans who walked across the southern border. Same for the Haitians the Biden Administration flew into the country.Maybe we could send them all Social Security cards now and just cut out the middle man.It seems kind of unfair to make them go to all that trouble.

Why does America keep winning?

W.C. Varones
12/12/2025 8:48:00 AM

X:          Yes. But also, America's abundance of natural resources and history of fortuitous developments kinda seems like God shed His grace on thee.        Capitalism and divine providence are like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. 

Inflation is always and everywhere a progressive phenomenon

W.C. Varones
11/13/2025 9:31:17 AM
Excerpt from a text conversation with a young "democratic socialist":DS: Every time the US has become progressive, the right wing and the centrists said the policies were too unrealistic, but the civil rights movement still passed, and FDR is currently looked at as one of the best presidents of the past hundred yearsWC: Some times the right wing and the centrists are right. LBJ's Great Society has trapped millions in multigenerational welfare dependency. Obamacare has made health care unaffordable and is bankrupting both families and the US governmentLBJ's Great Society (and the Vietnam War) was what forced the US government to break the gold standard under Nixon, leading to all subsequent inflation crises. Inflation and all[...]

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[...]

Project Vault: Strategic Reserve is Next Step in U.S. Shift to SelfReliance in Critical Minerals 

Leslie Eastman

In trying to intimidate U.S. manufacturers, China may have instead accelerated a permanent rewiring of global minerals flows.The post Project Vault: Strategic Reserve is Next Step in U.S. Shift to SelfReliance in Critical Minerals first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Second Suspect Biolab Tied to Chinese Citizen Raises Urgent Questions on U.S. Biosecurity Oversight 

Leslie Eastman

FBI, SWAT, and HazMat Teams swoop down on Las Vegas home, tied to a China-connected biolab in Reedley, California.The post Second Suspect Biolab Tied to Chinese Citizen Raises Urgent Questions on U.S. Biosecurity Oversight first appeared on Legal Insurrection.