Category Archives: Current Affairs

Reason: How To Share A Bathroom With A Gender Confused Person

No one can say Reason is a liberal leaning online site, it tends to lean more libertarian and conservative, and Joshua Swain and Nick Gillespie offer an interesting, though ultra simplistic, take on sharing a bathroom with a trans person In less than half a minute and by following four simple steps, Reason TV offers […]

Obama To Lay Wreath For Cuban Who Would Have Stood Against Everything Cuba Is About

Obama is in Cuba, and it’s totally Historic, ya know. Here’s what he’s going to be doing today, right about now (USA Today) Wreath-laying and tour at the José Marti Memorial, 10:20 a.m. • Official welcoming ceremony, Palace of the Revolution, 11 a.m. • One-on-one meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro, 11:30 a.m. • Expanded meeting between U.S. and Cuban […]

Will GOP Hold Strong On Supreme Court Pick?

The pick of Merrick Garland has reportedly split some Progressives, who wanted someone more hardcore Progressive and/or a woman/minority (why? Because. That’s pretty much their rationale). Senator McConnell is reportedly holding strong on the “no hearing till we have the next president” thought. So is Senator Grassley “When they structured our nation, the founders placed […]

White Supremacist David Duke Endorses Donald Trump

Well, this is interesting (Buzzfeed)  David Duke, a white nationalist and former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, is urging the listeners of his radio program to volunteer and vote for Donald Trump. “Voting for these people, voting against Donald Trump at this point is really treason to your heritage,” Duke said on the David Duke […]

Oops: Sheriff Joe Biden Said POTUS Shouldn’t Nominate A SCOTUS Candidate During The Political Season

Allahpundit call this “game over” In which C-SPAN archivists drop a 20-megaton political warhead directly on Obama and the Democrats. The best part? Biden actually goes a little further than Republicans have gone this month in opposing an election-year replacement for Scalia. Not only doesn’t he want a vacancy filled, not only doesn’t he want […]

NY Times: Congress Should Rubber-stamp Anyone Obama Nominates For Supreme Court

The NY Times Editorial Board actually makes a few salient points in their editorial, but, it is the lead that should be noticed first When Antonin Scalia was named by President Ronald Reagan to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court in 1986, the Senate considered the nomination for 85 days, then voted to confirm […]

NY Times Recommends Dems Support GOP “Guilty Mind” Proposal

Well, here’s something one doesn’t see in the Leftist opinion pages of the NY Times: support for a Republican proposal. Granted, it’s written by Gideon Yaffe, a professor of law at Yale, not the hoity toity Editors, but, it is unusual (NY Times) THESE days, it’s practically unheard-of for those on the left to embrace […]

New Excuse: US Navy Boats “Drifted Off Course”

The Obama administration will say anything to protect their Iranian buddies. Powerline noted the other day that the US, really, the Obama administration, had been humiliated badly. Today we get (CNN)  Defense Secretary Ash Carter said that a mistake in navigation was the reason U.S. sailors entered Iranian waters earlier this week. “I think that […]

NY Times: Seriously, You People Need To Calm Down About All The Sexual Assault In Germany By Refugees

This op-ed by Anna Sauerbrey is definately in the running for the January most bat guano insane award, at least in terms of Big Credentialed Media. Germany’s Post-Cologne Hysteria As M asks in the comments “120 complaints of sexual assault is hysteria?”(actually more than that) Hello There writes “Ms. Sauerbrey is blaming Germany for not […]

The Deal In Oregon: My Take

Jeffrey asked yesterday why I wasn’t writing about the “standoff” in Oregon. Well, let’s see. First off, I really do not care all that much. These are some foolish people trying to make a point, yet the people they are supposedly making a point over want them to stop. There’s no doubt that there are […]

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