Tell me something: do you think we can use the vote to “take back” Detroit? Can we use the legal system to “clean up” Chicago? Can we use both to turn California around? If you believe we can use these methods to do any of that, then you’ll have to explain why none of it…
So, apparently we trust the govt. and media when it comes to a scandal such as the NSA domestic spying allegations. OK, well, I accept. Media reports are to be taken as factual. So, let’s not be too quick to assume the NSA is doing anything wrong before we have any evidence against the NSA…
Bonus Vegas era Pre-Fatass Elvis at the bottom. Another major blogospheric figure, Ace of Ace of Spades HQ, shares my reluctance to jump headfirst in the Snowden Memorial Pool, Spa and Happy Ending Massage Parlor: Before I get into all of this, let me explain why I feel we’re being snookered on this, and why…
Andrew C. McCarthy is the former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. A Republican, and most notable for leading the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others, he is the author of three books: Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad (2008) The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America (2010) How the Obama…
I apologize in advance if this post sounds as though I am trying to lecture anyone. That is not my intention. At the same time, I don’t “think” I am correct about what I am about to say: I know I am. What I hope to do is explain why I know this to be…
Mule Trading Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily in Starkville , MS. and bought a mule for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day. The next morning the farmer drove up and said,”Sorry, fellows, I have some bad news, the mule died last night.” Curtis & Leroy…
It is stuff like this from the Telegraph that is the reason that I am pushing so hard for us to deal with facts: None of this debunks outright Snowden’s claims that the NSA is gathering data, that it has extraordinary power or that it has lied to Congress about it. But it does smack…
Woman in China could face death penalty for killing man by crushing testicles Prosecutors claim the woman said she would ‘squeeze it to death’ before violent encounter with man who later went into shock and died. Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 7:25 AM The woman could face the death penalty if convicted. A 41-year-old woman is…
There is an excellent post over at the American Spectator: We are often lectured that a major difference between liberals and conservatives is that the former “care” about the common people, while the latter are concerned only for themselves and their own. Many believe that it was this sentiment that doomed Mitt Romney’s presidential chances…
The Rio Norte Line 