Gun Bans, But No Hollywood/Video Game Bans? Figures!

So, have you fallen for the government/media line that Sandy Hook was the result of uncontrolled access to firearms?  Do you really believe that?  Well, if you do, you shouldn’t (and maybe you shouldn’t be voting, either – and yes, I mean that): Newtown gunman ‘plotted massacre for years’… Treated School As Video Game… The…

Rampant Hypocritical Cognitive Dissonance

This at NewsBusters made me think of the rank hypocrisy of the left – the liberal media demands that the Catholic church accept – no, check that – promote birth control: Appearing on Monday’s NBC Today as part of the Today’s Professionals panel discussion, the network’s chief medical editor Nancy Snyderman urged the Catholic Church to abandon its opposition…

Drip…Drip…Drip…Benghazi…

Back in September, I wrote this: Someone at the State Department who sees the betrayal and gets tired of the cover-up will leak this information. Obama is effectively standing on the tombstones of the dead to reach for re-election. Don’t know if it is the State Department helping it but the mortar is falling out…

Meritocracies are for Greedy People: Compassion Dictates “Fairness”

I have had it with all the mentally incapacitated people who claim meritocracies are better than government-dictated “fairness.”  We all know that they only want to justify their greed.  The idea of meritocracy is always pushed by those who have an “in” with the system.  You never see the poor, disadvantaged or down-trodden asking for…

Double Taxation — In The Name Of “Saving” You

Have you seen this story? Cyprus deal shock sends shares tumbling, gold up LONDON (Reuters) – The surprise decision by euro zone leaders to part-fund a bailout of Cyprus by taxing bank deposits sent shockwaves through financial markets on Monday, with shares and the bonds of struggling euro zone governments tumbling. The bloc struck a…

Orwell’s 1984 Is Happening

I normally discount most of the ranting of the WorldNetDaily/Alex Jones/Lew Rockwell set because I’ve always thought that they were the right’s version of the boy who cried wolf but this post at lewrockwell.com by Gordon T. Long hits uncomfortably close to the mark: In The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek showed how governments, supported…