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April 20, 2015
Hillary Clinton Logo turns blue like a Home Pregnancy TestHillary Clinton's much criticized logo has changed color from red to blue. (The old one on the left, the new is on the right.) I think she has changed the color to better appeal to mothers. In many pregnancy tests when you urinate on a ...
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March 23, 2015
Jeb Bush's immigration 'act of love'Remember when Jeb Bush said illegal immigration is an "act of love"? At the time I heard it, I thought it was odd. You could say that immigrants are coming here in search of jobs, or a better life, even thought they are breaking...
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March 23, 2015
Ted Cruz's policy positionsNow that Ted Cruz has decided to run for president, he is the first one with a website that actually states his policy positions. Other would-be candidates, like Scott Walker and Rand Paul, have none, since they are not yet declared candidates....
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March 21, 2015
Monica Lewinsky speaks out on cyber-bullying; silent on adultery, sexual predatorsBack in the 1990s, Monica Lewinsky's name actually became a catchphrase. When men said, "I'd like a Lewinksy, please," they weren't referring to a kind of beer. Lewinsky shamefully had an affair with Bill Clinton, pe...
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March 21, 2015
California spending drought money to prepare for floodingCalifornia is currently experiencing a drought, probably caused by global warming, since such things are not naturally occuring phenomena. In response, California is spending nearly a billion dollars, mostly on things unrelated to drought....
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March 20, 2015
Megyn Kelly: Let's import more followers of sharia lawMegyn Kelly is an attorney – smart, articulate, and excellent in a debate. But how would she look in a burka? The question may be relevant, given our current immigration patterns, especially if Megyn Kelly gets her way. Megyn K...
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March 20, 2015
John Kasich says he's more conservative than Scott WalkerGovernor John Kasich of Ohio, who would like to run for president, is upset when people imply that he's a liberal. Gov. John R. Kasich was sipping coffee in the sun-drenched garden room of his official residence, boasting about his “Oh...
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March 20, 2015
Is it racist when white cop shoots violent black who is high as a kite?An allegedly violent man who was also allegedly high on drugs, named Tony Robinson, was shot and killed by a policeman. Unlike the roughly 7,500 blacks who are killed each year by other blacks (93% of black murder victims are killed by other bl...
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March 17, 2015
Which candidates are Evangelicals leaning toward?The support of the Evangelical community is hardly decisive, even in a Republican presidential primary. Otherwise, Pat Robertson and Mike "Diabetes Cure" Huckabee might be president. Nevertheless, it's a solid voting bloc, a...
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March 17, 2015
Transgendered ISIS soldiers running faster than mascaraThe Iraqi armed forces, led by vicious Shiite militias and an Iranian Revolutionary Guards general, are surging northward from Baghdad and taking prisoners. But some of the ISIS prisoners were dressed as women. You may think they were dresse...
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March 16, 2015
Step right up! Mike Huckabee's cure for diabetesMike Huckabee claims he's found the cure for diabetes! And it has cinnamon in it! And the cure can be yours for one easy down payment of only $19.95! Supplies are limited, so act now! In a wood-paneled study lined with book...
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March 16, 2015
Ted Cruz calls for liquidating the IRS in New HampshireTed Cruz came to New Hampshire, but unlike other candidates who talked in Bushian generalities, he talked about his positions on the issues. He won applause when he called for a flat tax and abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and he said t...
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March 15, 2015
Barney Frank releases book describing how he made historyPolitico Magazine is featuring a zillion-word gushing piece describing how former congressman Barney Frank is coming out with a book called Frank (which I sincerely hope is merely a reference to his last name, and not to a coded slang word.) Fr...
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March 15, 2015
Scott Walker: My many changes in positions are not flip-floppingScott Walker has been accused of being a "flip-flopper" for changing positions on many major policy issues over a short period of time. I have such a deep, fundamental respect for Mr. Walker, to the effect that, for purposes of this a...
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March 14, 2015
Rand Paul woos blacks by offering to hide criminal recordsLast time I checked, black people - were concerned about getting and keeping jobs - were concerned about competition for jobs from illegal aliens - were concerned about crime in their communities - wanted to live in a country with the rul...
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March 14, 2015
James Bond movie plot changed to please Mexican govt.The latest James Bond movie, Spectre, got 20 million dollars in incentives from Mexico in return for changing key parts of the film. - The villain, a female killer named Sciarra, could not be a Mexican. Since villains can't be Mexican, ...
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March 13, 2015
Would you give up sunlight to live in Manhattan?I get the appeal of living in Manhattan. I don't agree with it, but I understand it. It has a lot of fancy restaurants and bars. It has art museums filled with paintings of overweight white pasty-skinned crossdressing Europeans,...
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March 13, 2015
Gordon Brown makes strong argument for Britain to leave EUGordon Brown is a former prime minister of Great Britain from the Labour Party. He penned an editorial in the Guardian telling people why Britain should stay in the European Union. But his argument does just the opposite. Being half-...
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March 12, 2015
Star Wars promotes gay lifestyleWhen it comes to pushing the gay agenda, is there such a thing as overdoing it? It's one thing to have literature or serious dramas with gay characters – after all, sexuality is often a part of stories about people's lives. But...
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March 11, 2015
Harvard study: global warming may end threat of mummiesFor generations, books, films, and TV have warned us of the danger of mummies. In their crypts they are relatively harmless, but when they rise from the dead and start strangling people, as they did in the Cotswolds of south central England in ...
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March 11, 2015
HuffPo: Polygamy the key to a happy monogamous marriageWhat's the secret of a successful monogamous marriage? If you read HuffPo, the answer may surprise you: polygamy! Who would have known? I vividly remember the first time I felt it. My husband and I were in the backyard, lazing in...
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March 10, 2015
Which Democrat could run against Hillary Clinton?Given the latest to come out about Mrs. Clinton's brazen disregard for the law, (the secret email server hidden behind the false wall in the maid's quarters of Mrs. Clinton's sensible Chappaqua home, where she administered affairs of stat...
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March 10, 2015
Rand Paul scores pot deal with DemsNo one admires Rand Paul more than I do. While the country is on a decline with out-of-control spending, an executive branch assuming near-dictatorial powers, illegal aliens flooding our country, and our medical system effectively nationalized,...
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March 10, 2015
Facebook's Sandberg: Men are inferior to womenIt's always fun being a man in a world where the media feels free to insult the intentions and capabilities of men but that doing the same for women is forbidden. There are always excited announcements of new studies showing how women excel...
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March 10, 2015
How might Hillary Clinton launder money?In one unforgettable episode of Doctor Who, citizens of London are captured, and their heads are cut open. Their brains removed and modified and then inserted into the bodies of evil robots called Cybermen. This being a BBC show, they cou...
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March 9, 2015
Women's colleges closing at a fantastic rateBreaking news! The sweet peaches of Sweet Briar College have to find somewhere else to ride firm, docile mounts: For more than a century, Sweet Briar College has offered women a liberal arts education in a pastoral setting near Virginia...
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March 8, 2015
NYC to keep track of Puerto Ricans at the Bronx ZooAs part of its continuing efforts to balkanize people by race, sex, and class, New York City is planning to count the number of each kind of minority at all of its cultural institutions. "If you're living in a city like we are in New Yo...
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March 8, 2015
Which GOP candidate won the Iowa Ag Summit?Republican candidates were invited to speak at the Agriculture Summit in Iowa, sponsored by Bruce Rastetter. Rastetter is the Darth Sidious of ethanol, who wants all the candidates to kiss his ring and promise to keep subsidizing ethanol, also ...
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March 7, 2015
Utah GOP bill grants special rights to Bisexuals and TransvestitesRepublicans in Utah are busy pushing through a bill to give special rights to gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered. The bill sailed through a Republican-controlled Senate committee in a unanimous vote Thursday before earning a promise from [R...
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March 7, 2015
Pampered Adulteress Sues Top Venture Capital Firm For Sex DiscriminationEllen Pao, a former junior partner at the top venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is suing, claiming she wasn't made a senior partner because she is a woman. The minute she arrived at the company, she was treated s...
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March 6, 2015
If you care about global hunger, cut down the Brazilian RainforestVox, the leftist site that claims to explain the news, is whining about renewed deforestation of the rain forest in Brazil. In the past six months alone 1600 square kilometers of rain forest was cut down! You know, one of things I love about lefti...
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March 6, 2015
Watch libs scream when their pet industries get regulatedColorado finds an urgent need to regulate yoga schools, and, indirectly yoga classes. It was evening at one of this city’s most popular yoga centers, and teacher training was about to begin. Students wore flowing genie pants. Votive candle...
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March 6, 2015
HuffPo: Feminism is cleaning toilets and sex talk with strangersThere was a little known TV movie in the 1970's called "Planet Earth", made by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. It was supposed to be a TV pilot for a futurist series in a post-disaster Earth where everything was destroyed except for...
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March 5, 2015
Why the Supreme Court will uphold Obamacare againIf you think about it, the US Supreme Court is a lot like the Nazgul Ringwraiths from The Lord of the Rings. There are nine justices, and nine Nazgul. They all wear black robes. Many of the Nazgul were initially good Numenoreans who were seduced by p...
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March 4, 2015
End aid to Iraq and the Syrian 'moderate' oppositionAmerica should not aid Islamic radicals fighting the Islamic State (who are also Islamic radicals). ISIS is a brutal radical fundamentalist Islamic terrorist group who tortures and kills anyone who doesn't think like it does. But whom ar...
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March 4, 2015
Is Scott Walker a budget surrender monkey?Before I put my rhetorical knife deep between Scott Walker's shoulder blades, let me start out by saying I like him. I really do. He hasn't just talked the talk; he's actually done good conservative things in Wisconsin. He...
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March 3, 2015
How to interpret Scott Walker's evolution on amnestyAs I have previously written, Scott Walker was for the Teddy Kennedy Amnesty bill of 2006, and as recently as 2013 he told Politico that he was still in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens. But now Scott Walker has publicly acknowledged changin...
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March 3, 2015
Why Ted Cruz is constitutionally qualified to be presidentI read the comments sections on my articles. One of the comments I see consistently is "I like Ted Cruz, but I am worried he is not constitutionally qualified to be president." So I decided to look into the issue. After doing so...
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March 2, 2015
We need a president with 'executive experience' (like Carter and Bush?)In my recent article on the Republican presidential candidates' positions on amnesty, one commenter remarked that he liked Scott Walker better than Ted Cruz because Walker has managerial experience. I have heard this argument a lot – ...
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March 2, 2015
Silicon Valley fights sexism by treating women as mentally infirmWhile women are being beaten, beheaded, and raped in the Middle East to complete silence from feminist groups, we do, on the brighter side, have yet another article about the woes of the ladies of Silicon Valley. The LA Times has written some v...
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March 1, 2015
Which Republican presidential candidates support amnesty?Which Republican presidential candidates support amnesty? I have analyzed all the major Republican presidential candidates (except Ben Carson and Rick Sanctorum, who are long shots, and Donald Trump, who has undocumented hair). I have fou...
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February 28, 2015
Facebook says 58 gender options aren't enoughFacebook used to give people the option to choose male or female for gender but quickly realized it was too limiting, so it created 58 more categories. Then it decided that the 58 categories weren't enough and now, in addition to them, is a...
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February 28, 2015
Google wants to build dangerous energy wasting, domed cityEveryone always says how brilliant the people at Google are. So when Google does something really, really dumb, most people... still call it brilliant. This is one of those times. Google is planning to build huge domed buildings, each dome encompassi...
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February 28, 2015
Why Conservatives Will Miss Mr. SpockThe death of Leonard Nimoy is sad to many of us, but he was especially admired by political conservatives. The character he played on Star Trek, Mr. Spock was a very rational, intelligent character who often came to opposite conclusions to people aro...
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February 27, 2015
How would you feel if your Nordstrom saleswoman wore a burqa?Are you familiar with the culture at Abercrombie & Fitch? Their stores feature tight spotlighting and dark colors reminiscent of Count Dracula's torture den. They also have giant wall-sized photos of topless guys with prominent, s...
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February 27, 2015
How to write a compelling illegal alien sob storyThe New York Times had a very compelling story about an illegal alien who came to the US and immediately gave birth to a sickly baby who died. The problem with the story was that the Times implausibly tied the death of the baby to the lack of immedia...
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February 26, 2015
How gun control is causing another European HolocaustWhen Adolph Hitler got into power, he confiscated all the guns owned by Jewish people. Then, once they were defenseless, he sent them all to concentration camps. Now, in 2015, Jews are being slaughtered again because of their religio...
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February 26, 2015
WashPost: Global warming tides will carry screaming Eskimos out to seaThe giant 600-foot tidal wave roared large over the remote Eskimo village of Kivalina. Kumaglak's infant son Inuksuk gave a whimper of fear as he clung tighter to her bosom. Kumaglak heard the screams of her fellow villagers as the ti...
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February 25, 2015
Please Support (but don't vote) For Marco Rubio For PresidentI would like to take this opportunity to endorse Senator Marco Rubio for President. He's a bright new leader for the GOP, looks like a young suavecito Ricardo Montalban, speaks English without an accent or rolling his r's, and most of all, ru...
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February 25, 2015
Hillary: I should be president because I have lady partsHillary Clinton has finally figured out a compelling reason why people should elect her president: she took a look inside the waistband of her black pantsuit and discovered, much to her surprise, that she's a woman! Mrs. Clinton...
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February 24, 2015
NYT spotlights jobs illegals are taking from AmericansThe New York Times made a mistake! Not on the level of covering up the Holocaust, which they did, or spreading positive propaganda about Stalin's Soviet Union, which they also did, but a mistake nonetheless. The NYT was trying to...
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February 24, 2015
Black Mr. Gay teaches new guilt theory to liberal white kidsThe New York Times had a long article about "diversity training" at elite private schools in New York. In the finest tradition of Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, white students were encouraged to sit around and brains...
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February 23, 2015
It's 'bad etiquette' to thank veterans for their serviceThe New York Times, which has no equal when it comes to supporting the military or our veterans, published an op-ed by a disgruntled veteran who feels very offended when people thank him for his service. Veteran Hunter Garth, who is now a gua...
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February 23, 2015
NYT finds New Yorkers love micro-apartmentsI always smile when I read an article in the New York Times that propagandizes in favor of a minimalist lifestyle. Give up meat, use less electricity, get rid of your car, and so on. But one of their favorite topics is the joy of living i...
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February 22, 2015
Illegal Aliens Unhappy with Shortage of Bilingual DoctorsThe LA Times reported that illegal aliens are unhappy that not enough doctors speak Spanish. The article never used the words "illegal" or "undocumented" or "dreamer" or "super virtuous" or however we are ...
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February 22, 2015
Hillary Clinton Investigating self, Reports Shocking DiscoveriesI think a candidate for president needs to be thoroughly vetted, don't you? Hillary Clinton certainly agrees, which is why she is hiring investigators to find out more about herself: Hillary Rodham Clinton, the subject of intense news media ...
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February 21, 2015
Would you allow yourself to be groped to fight global warming?It's an easy choice--let yourself be repeatedly sexually groped by a pervert, or accept the consequences of global warming. Which would you choose? Riders of the LA transit system make this choice every day, and I'm proud to say that...
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February 21, 2015
How many servings of global warming have you eaten today?The Left now wants to label food according to how much it causes global warming. Really. The nation’s top nutritional panel is recommending for the first time that Americans consider the impact on the environment when they are choosing wha...
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February 20, 2015
What Life is Like in DeBlasio's New YorkThe NYT published an article where people in different neighborhoods of New York City described what life was like there. Here are some excerpts, starting with a lady resident reporting from Chelsea, a trendy, expensive, and largely gay section of Ma...
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February 20, 2015
Harvard Study: Women are Better LegislatorsI will know I am still dreaming when I think I wake up and read an article describing a study that finds that men are better at something than women. You'll never read that. But we do have studies coming out of our ears on how much capable women ...
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February 19, 2015
How to Teach Kids about SocialismIt used to be that if you wanted to teach kids about capitalism, you’d tell them to open a lemonade stand. By producing a product, marketing it, and selling it, they would get a small taste of what it is like to run a business. But now telli...
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February 19, 2015
NYT: ISIS getting Arab Recruits who are Sexually RepressedLife imitates art! Yesterday I wrote a piece describing how feminists were sexually attracted to Islamic radicals. A few hours later, the New York Times published a piece describing how young Arab men are joining ISIS because... they're sexually ...
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February 18, 2015
Why Feminists want to be DominatedHave you ever wondered why feminist groups have been silent on the new movie, 50 Shades of Grey? In the movie, a young woman is spanked, whipped, degraded, has objects inserted into her bottom, and is treated like a subservient sexual object. Feminis...
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February 18, 2015
What if Illegal Aliens were all White People?What if illegal aliens were all white people, from Europe? And what if George W. Bush were still president, and wanted to give them all amnesty? How do you think Democrats and the media would react? "Bush is giving these illegals white privil...
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February 17, 2015
San Francisco Debuts Human Waste MapWhat do you get when you visit San Francisco, the city with the highest tech and the lowest morals? If your answer is, "An online map showing block by block where the human excrement is", you'd be 100% correct! Every city has a crime ma...
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February 17, 2015
Illegal aliens complaining about life in suburbiaLawbreakers are victims! Kirk Semple writes in the New York Times: José was looking for peace and quiet, in addition to work, when he decided to settle in the hinterlands of upstate New York 14 years ago. “A lot of farmland and tree...
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February 16, 2015
Florida considering law banning men from Women's BathroomsFlorida is considering a law which would require men to use men's bathrooms and women to use women's bathrooms, and not let them pick and choose. Rep. Janet Cruz, a Tampa Democrat, reacted sharply to Rep. Artiles’ proposal. ...
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February 16, 2015
How did the Internet Survive so long without .lgbt Domains?A new internet domain has been created, called .lgbt, because like every other aspect of society, the internet needs a section that is specifically marked for gays. Gay people couldn't make use of .coms, .orgs, and .edus like everyone else. In fa...
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February 15, 2015
Islamic State Expanding Rapidly within a Certain Religious GroupThe Islamic State is rapidly getting new recruits from a certain religious group. Since President Obama has told us that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam, we must try to figure out what religious group these people are from. The Is...
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February 14, 2015
Guns on Campus?Texas is considering allowing guns on college campuses Two major gun bills got their first real test today, as a Senate committee heard testimony from more than 100 people on the wisdom of Senate Bill 11, which would allow holders of concealed h...
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February 14, 2015
Media welcomes first Bisexual Governor with Open ArmsWhy is it so important to know who public figures are having sex with? The media seems obsessed with it. Now that Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber has resigned in scandal (he's a Democrat, though you won't see that widely reported), he will be ...
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February 13, 2015
$30 million to open an existing lane on a bridge?Most of you have probably never heard of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. In the San Francisco Bay area, it connects the far-left, granola-chomping-unwashed-dreadlocky-snakey-haired East Bay communities, including Richmond, Oakland and Berkeley,...
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February 12, 2015
Illegal Aliens should go back into the ShadowsI was reading an article describing how New Mexico is trying to pass a bill rescinding drivers licenses to illegal aliens. Immediately, the world's largest violins started playing. For years, New Mexico led in handing out driver's licens...
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February 12, 2015
#MuslimLivesMatterSometimesThree Muslims were shot to death in North Carolina in what may have been a dispute over parking. Or they may have been shot because they were Muslim. We don't know. But if you asked the White House, I'm sure they wouldn't be so quick t...
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February 10, 2015
The Authoritative Hispanic View of Global WarmingThe same group of suspects who recently that found that Republicans were upset by global warming has discovered the same about Hispanics: According to a poll conducted last month by the New York Times, Stanford University and the nonpartisan env...
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February 8, 2015
Lib Media: 'Kansas is Melting!!!'The Lib media will never have articles showing how much heavy taxation or out-of-control spending is harming the economy. But one kind of article they do know how to write is one which describes how people suffer from cuts in government spending, or,...
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February 7, 2015
Stop giving affirmative action to women in Silicon ValleyToday I read the one millionth story on why we need to get more women to work in technology. Facebook and LinkedIn want to boost dwindling numbers of women studying engineering and computer science with a collaborative initiative announced Frida...
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February 5, 2015
Jeb Bush: We will lose our liberties if we control the borderJeb Bush made a series of astonishing remarks about immigration Wednesday. Actually, his comments were not so much about immigration as they were about illegal aliens. First he said he wanted to repopulate Detroit with illegal aliens. I...
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February 4, 2015
Scott Walker to U. Wisconsin faculty: Work more than 14 hours a weekWisconsin Governor Scott Walker reportedly wants to "cut" $300 million from the University of Wisconsin budget over the next two years. I am always skeptical of the use of the term "cut" – from the article and other so...
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February 4, 2015
The GOP view on hand-washing in restaurantsMark Levin has often remarked that Republicans don't make the case for limited government because they don't know how. There is no better example of this than the newly minted Senator from North Carolina, Thom Tillis, the establishment GOP...
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February 3, 2015
How to Make Young People ConservativeInfluential talk show host Mark Levin has called on constitutional conservatives to come up with a way to appeal to young people. Levin said it is not enough to make intellectual arguments for conservatism and constitutionalism; we must come up...
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February 2, 2015
Politico high on Rand Paul pot policyScientists say that evolution normally takes tens of thousands of years to occur. But in a remarkable study, scientists have found that the species that evolves the fastest is the mainstream Republican. What else to explain the sudden rel...
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February 2, 2015
Obama vows to reduce income inequality (and economy)The mark of a good work of fiction is one in which you accept one or two untrue things, but everything else has to be believable. That's a skill the dilettante agitprop writers at the New York Times seem to lack in an article describing how...
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February 1, 2015
Why we lost AfghanistanFor once, The New York Times has it right. It has an article revealing that ordinary Afghans avoid their regular civilian courts and go to be judged by Taliban courts. Frustrated by Western-inspired legal codes and a government court system wide...
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January 31, 2015
NYT: Even Republicans fear global warming!The New York Times has a breathless announcement: Most Republicans Back Climate Action! Except, it's not most Republicans; by the Time's own numbers, it's only 48%, and even that number is very suspect. If they can't honesty portray t...
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January 28, 2015
Republican governors raising taxes, media applaudsRepublican governors are raising taxes, and the New York Times couldn't be happier! “My jaw dropped,” Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, a conservative Republican in Nevada, said after hearing Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republican, propose...
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January 27, 2015
Rich people upset about being richThe LA Times reports that wealthy people are upset about income inequality. A large majority of so-called high-net-worth individuals see income inequality as a top macroeconomic concern, according to a new study released by Morgan Stanley. The s...
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January 26, 2015
The Earth will be destroyed in 3 minutesDo you know what an idiot savant is? An idiot savant is someone who is brilliant in one area but quite dumb in most others. The not-so-good people at The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists are idiot savants. They may know particle theory...
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January 26, 2015
Devaluing a leftist code wordJohn Cornyn is an establishment Republican who rarely sticks his neck out for any conservative principles. But like a monkey clattering away on a typewriter, he occasionally does something right, albeit in a small way. This is one of thos...
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January 24, 2015
Jorge Ramos: Hero to Latinos!The liberal media tells us that every ethnic group has its own issues based on their ethnicity. There are black issues for black people, Native American issues for Native Americans, and of course, Latino issues for Latinos. If you're ...
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January 23, 2015
Government spends $432,000 studying gay sex appsThe federal government spent $432,000 to study gay sex apps. I never knew that gay sex even required an app; I always thought two guys, a tub of vaseline, and a big bottle of tequila was all that was needed. But apparently: The Natio...
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January 22, 2015
US Senate declares that the climate does changeThe US Senate has voted almost unanimously (98-1) that climate change is real. What a relief! I thought the ice age might have been an internet hoax. The climate actually changes! Who knew? The Senate should stop passing laws, and become an ora...
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January 22, 2015
Andrew Cuomo's Plan For New York StateGovernor Andrew Cuomo of New York has just released his plans for the coming year. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, delivering his State of the State address along with a budget proposal heavy on infrastructure Infrastructure? Oh-oh, hide your wallet,...
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January 21, 2015
In blow to consumers, limit on debit card fees upheldFrom Bloomberg: The U.S. Supreme Court, without comment, left intact a Federal Reserve rule governing how much banks can collect for debit-card transactions. The Fed rule is a product of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-reform law, which told the b...
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January 21, 2015
Newspaper in trouble for calling illegal immigrants 'illegal immigrants'Uh-oh! The Santa Barbara News-Press wrote an article where they dared to call illegal immigrants “illegal immigrants,” and that's got people mad, and even worse, they hurt some peoples' feelings! The News-Press ra...
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January 19, 2015
NYT: Tweet lazy students to get them to apply to collegeResearchers have discovered a shocking disparity: A child born into a poor family has only a 9 percent chance of getting a college degree, but the odds are 54 percent for a child in a high-income family. Is this really true? Who...
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January 19, 2015
Oxfam says the richest 1% control more than half the world's wealth (updated)The NYT published a press release from Oxfam claiming that the richest 1% control more than half the world's wealth. I don't know if that's true, but if it is...who cares? Even if it is true, where exactly is this money being hel...
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January 18, 2015
Eric Cantor Lectures On How to Win Elections?The Virginia Conservative Network had a special guest speaker this weekend: former Congressman Eric Cantor! Cantor, the only House Majority Leader in US history who was defeated by a virtually unfunded, no-name challenger (by 10 percentage poin...
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January 18, 2015
A Tale of Two SenatorsThe Associated Press (or the Associated Depressed, as Mark Levin aptly calls it) has an article talking about the fact that with the Republicans taking control of the Senate, Democratic Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey will lose influence while Republi...
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January 18, 2015
Will taxing big banks really help the middle class?In President Obama's State of the Union address he will reportedly call for a tax on banks and use the revenue from that and a capital gains tax increase to fund tax breaks for the "middle class". The tax would not just be on any banks ...
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January 16, 2015
Fareed Zakaria: We Can't Fight Radical Islam by Fighting Radical IslamFareed Zakaria wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled "U.S. intervention is not the answer" regarding our fight against radical Islam. At least, I think he wrote the article; given all the times he's been accused of plagia...
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January 16, 2015
Why Obama loves to release terrorists from GitmoPresident Obama released five more terrorists from Guantánamo Bay this week, though you'd be hard-pressed to understand it from the New York Times headline: "US Moves Five Yemenis from Guantanamo." Moved? Where did th...
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January 15, 2015
Good news! GOP Govs to Be 'Pragmatic,' says NYTThe New York Times breathlessly reports that Republican governors are promising to be pragmatic. Pragmatic means "dealing with things based on practical rather than theoretical considerations," according to Google definitions. T...
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January 15, 2015
West Virginia decides to teach global warming propaganda to kidsWest Virginia watered down an educational curriculum that dared to question the existence of man-made global warming The State Board of Education voted 6-to-2 to withdraw its altered version of the Next Generation Science Standards, which were d...
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January 15, 2015
Why 26 Republicans don't want DREAMers to wake upThe House of Representatives took a symbolic vote to cancel President Obama's illegal amnesty for illegal aliens. (Yes, I was compelled to awkwardly use the word "illegal" twice in one sentence – once to describe those who c...
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January 12, 2015
The New York Times has a new boyfriend, and his name is JebThe media have two great loves in life: liberals, and conservative who "grow" and become liberals. Jeb Bush, who clearly falls in the latter category, was the subject of a fawning piece in the New York Times. The article starts ...
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January 11, 2015
Mitt Romney thinks only Mitt Romney can win the presidencyMitt Romney is now "seriously considering a run" for president in 2016, reports the Washington Post. "Seriously considering," presumably with an emphasis on "serious." We don't know how he was con...
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January 7, 2015
A Guide to the Guide to Israeli ElectionsIf you read American or British press reports or even English-language Israeli news reports about political events in Israel, it can be quite confusing! The left-wing Labor Party is often called "centrist," the equally left-wing Kadim...
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January 6, 2015
Why do liberals hate highways?The website Vox.com portrays itself as the "howstuffworks" of the political world. It takes a political question, and then, step by step, uses facts to answer it. Vox is like a brilliant supercomputer programmed to answer any qu...
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January 5, 2015
Huffington Post: Separate but Equal News SegregationWe know that according to the mainstream media, every time conservatives talk about race, they're racist, but every time liberals talk about race, they're being progressive. Which is sure a relief to know, because liberals talk about ra...
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January 2, 2015
The Most Compelling Charity Causes... From A Liberal PerspectiveThe Washington Post published a gushing piece on Cari Tuna, trumpeting her "new" approach to philanthropy. The piece was so fawning and uncritically laudatory that it looked like the work of a ghostwriter at a public relations firm, but non...
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December 29, 2014
Bernie Sanders's 12-Point Socialist Plan for AmericaBernie Sanders's 12-Point Socialist Plan for America Every committed revolutionary needs a plan. Karl Marx had one, and so did Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. Add to that group socialist senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont, who is co...