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Ask every Democrat about Joanne

Silvio Canto, Jr.
9/29/2025 5:00:00 AM
Ask every Democrat about Joanne: Back in 2016, some of us asked a simple question: Why doesn't the Obama administration demand the return of police killer Joanne Chesimard, who was hiding in Cuba? No Joanne, no embassy Well, as you may remember, President Obama and Raul Castro ...  Click to read:    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/09/ask_every_democrat_about_joanne.html      Going forward, every Democrat should be asked about Joanne Chesimard and her crime. The Democrat running for governor and the other one over the bridge who is running for mayor. Let them choose sides: police killer or support of the police who must be outraged that this woman is— Silvio Canto. Jr.[...]

We remember Gene Autry (1907-1998)

Silvio Canto, Jr.
9/28/2025 10:09:00 PM

      Gene Autry was born in Tioga, Texas and grew up here and Oklahoma.   Where else?     We remember him for songs and movies.    "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer" is the second all-time best selling Christmas single, i.e. 30 million copies.   He is the only entertainer to have all five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one each for Radio, Recording, Motion Pictures, Television, and Live Theater performances. And he owned the Angels, the AL baseball team in Los Angeles.    Sadly, he never saw his Angels win the 2002 World Series. Autry was one of the most famous people of the 20th century.        P.S.  You can listen[...]

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[...]

The Democrats created Trump

W.C. Varones
9/23/2025 7:13:07 PM
Holman Jenkins, in the Wall Street Journal:Nancy Pelosi, who said impeachment shouldnt be a partisan stunt, launched a partisan stunt in 2019 by putting in charge Adam Schiff, whom the country knew as a collusion liar. This was a mistake.Kamala Harris scrapes the larger mystery in her new memoir. Democrats essentially promoted Mr. Trump as a foil. They thought he was their ticket to enact policies Americans otherwise never would support and even most Democrats in office didnt support, from unenforced borders to extending Joe Bidens senile incumbency. This was a mistake.On Aug. 8, 2016, the New York Times made its signal contribution with a front-page directive to the nations press to abandon objectivity and adopt an[...]

It's different this time

W.C. Varones
8/11/2025 9:23:05 AM

No, really. It is.        

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[...]

Scientists Making Plans to Nuke Asteroid Targeting Moon, Slated for 2032 Impact 

Leslie Eastman

A lunar impact could generate debris that damages key satellites, the ISS...and potentially any lunar installations that had been constructed as part of the new space race.The post Scientists Making Plans to Nuke Asteroid Targeting Moon, Slated for 2032 Impact first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

DOT Orders Emergency Action After Deadly Crash Tied to Illegally Licensed Truck Driver 

Leslie Eastman

California hit with sanctions related to its egregious noncompliance with the requirements for foreign commercial truck drivers.The post DOT Orders Emergency Action After Deadly Crash Tied to Illegally Licensed Truck Driver first appeared on Legal Insurrection.