Not that anyone reading this blog really expected any different. After all, the VA been in failure mode since before I was born. But, via many sources, we have new information about the VA. Namely that nearly 1/3 of the 850,000 people waiting to get on the waiting list died before their applications were processed. So…
Month: September 2015
Extra! Brave Artist Takes On World’s Greatest Evil!
On the northwest corner of Houston Street and the Bowery in what is now Manhattan’s hipster central, you’ll find a wall that is the site for a rotating display of murals. Living in the area, I walk by at least once a week on the way to shop at the Whole Paycheck that sits kitty-corner to…
What Could Go Wrong?
DHS grants temporary legal status to Yemeni citizens Beautiful. The Obama administration Thursday announced it will grant legal status and halt deportations for potentially thousands of citizens of Yemen, saying the security situation on the ground there is so bad that the U.S. has a moral obligation to protect people. But apparently no moral obligation…
“Take that, Bibi”
More Self-Inflicted Wounds Periodically the MSM break cover and let their true colors show. A case in point: So that brings me to the real self-inflicted wound, which was a tweet by PBS NewsHour co-anchor Gwen Ifill on Wednesday—after it became known that President Obama had secured the necessary number of Democratic backers in the…
Maybe Tina Fey Can Do Something With This
“We can see Alaska from our pu-pu deck.” So while President Obama is in Alaska slapping the memory of President McKinley and American history upside the head, five Chinese warships are no doubt ready to give him a 21 gun salute: Five Chinese Navy ships are sailing in international waters in the Bering Sea off Alaska,…
Jews, Guns And The 2nd Amendment
American Jews have long been staunch supporters of the authoritarian policies of the American Left, none more so than gun control. The peculiar reading of the 2nd Amendment that informs them is easily refuted by the most cursory examination of the political writings of the founders, basic understanding of the vocabulary of the day, and…
Andrew Klavan Macroaggresses Planned Parenthood
The Devil and Planned ParenthoodDoes the Prince of Darkness himself work at your local Planned Parenthood clinic? You won’t believe what we uncover in this video that the main stream media doesn’t want you to see! Posted by Andrew Klavan on Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Capitalism…Bitches!
The Saudis Gambled And Texas Won in a game that command economies should never play. Even the rapidly disappearing vestiges of capitalism we have in the United States is enough to smack the Saudis around. Innovation, risk, profit. Lovely words for a free people. I just hope that Texas doesn’t keep that kind of attitude for…
Breaking News: Pope is Catholic
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/638738666316283904 What this guy said. The media is having another one of those weird fawning moments over something Pope Francis never said that they wish he had said. The tweet above is CNN’s reaction to the Pope’s recent “move” with regards to abortion. Here’s Reuters: He has shown no intention of retracting the Church’s opposition…
On Language: Humpty Dumpty Was Wrong, But He Is Winning Anyway
Welcome To The United States of Alice is an excellent article in The American Spectator about the manipulation of language. It resonates with me because of its clear condemnation of our current rejection of objective meaning. But it goes even farther, suggesting that it is representative of, and responsible for (at least in part) the…