Category Archives: Current Affairs

What’s The Deal With “FireBigBird”?

Funny stuff (WRAL) Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill business majors are capitalizing on the furor that flew after Mitt Romney suggested defunding the public television stations that air Big Bird. The Republican presidential nominee mentioned the 8-foot, talking canary who stars in “Sesame Street” by name when discussing cutting taxpayer money for […]

Romney: “You Know Obama’s A Complete SCOAMF On Libya, Right?”

OK, he didn’t call Obama a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure, but, dog whistle, you know? (Fox News) Mitt Romney, fresh off what by most accounts was his victory Wednesday night in the first debate with President Obama, said in a Fox News interview that the deadly consulate attack in Libya was a “tragic […]

Is It Racist To Mention That The Unemployment Rate Has Been 8%+ For “44” Straight Months?

You know, since Obama is the 44th president, and since everything else, including the words Chicago and golf, are considered racist to mention (WRAL) With a month to go until the presidential election, the government on Friday issues its September jobs report, expected to show an uptick in the U.S. unemployment rate after employers added […]

BTW, Obama Decided Not To Send In The Military To Rescue Our Benghazi Personnel

As Ace points out, on one hand Team Obama decided not to increase security at the Benghazi consulate. On the other hand According to the Wall Street Journal, as the attack on the U.S. consulate was raging, Obama took a “wait and see” approach. Ninety minutes after news of the attack reached Washington, Obama, Sec. […]

BTW, North And South Korea On The Verge Of Nuclear War

Did you know that the UN General Assembly was still going on? Yeah, me neither (UK Telegraph) Pak Kil-yon, Pyongyang’s vice-foreign minster, put the blame for the tense state of inter-Korean relations firmly on South Korea’s conservative government and claimed the citizens of the North feel “shame” and “political terror.” Monday’s speech was the first […]

Obama Admin Knew Within Hours That Benghazi Attack Was Terrorism

I know many are talking about the bombshell of Obama’s speech in 2007, which I really don’t see as that big of a deal: we knew back then that Obama hadn’t divorced himself from Jeremiah Wright, that he was (and still is) a race hustler, and that he attempts to divide people. I find this […]

Team Obama Tries New Spin On Benghazi Attacks

Now they’re trying to say that they always considered it a terror attack (Daily Caller) White House officials are now insisting that President Barack Obama has always treated the Sept. 11 strike in Benghazi, Libya as a terrorist attack by jihadis. “Well, first of all, Candy, as you know, the president called it an act […]

Univision Special Exposes More Gun Walking Programs

Yesterday I mentioned the Univision special on Operation Fast and Furious, an Obama era gun walking program that began on Halloween, 2009. The Bush era program, Wide Receiver, had been shut down when the ATF realized that the Mexican cartels were able to circumvent the trackers in the guns, and only lost about 400 guns. […]

Univision To Broadcast Special Highlighting More Fast And Furious Deaths

If Operation Fast and Furious had occurred under President Bush, or any Republican president, it would be a major scandal. At least 2 American federal agents and hundreds of Mexican civilian deaths, at least 1,400 weapons still missing, and an administration that has stonewalled Congress and their oversight and investigation duties. Now comes this (Daily […]

Surprise! Race Card Played In North Carolina Governors Race

I’m sure you’re utterly surprised that the Democrat played it (WRAL) Republican Pat McCrory blasted Democratic gubernatorial rival Walter Dalton on Thursday for releasing a video in which elected leaders and others accused the former Charlotte mayor of being insensitive to black residents on issues such as voter ID and education. The video, released as […]

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