Category Archives: Current Affairs

Things Named After Robert Byrd Are Instruments Of Racial Terror

And this is all thanks to Democrats. So says the Brent Staples in a NY Times op-ed Confederate Memorials as Instruments of Racial Terror The Confederate-flag-waving white supremacist charged with murdering nine African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church in June demolished the fiction that the flag was an innocuous symbol of “Southern pride.” This barbaric […]

Good News: There Are Two Side Deals With Iran That Won’t Be Shared With Congress

The hell you say! This comes Fred Fleitz at National Review Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Congressmen Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) issued a press release today on a startling discovery they made during a July 17 meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency officials in Vienna: There are two secret side deals to the nuclear […]

The Donald: Don’t Lecture Me!

Here’s the problem with Donald Trump: he’s throwing red meat to the Republican base, and no one is seeing through him. He sounds oh-so-reasonable. And he doubles down, as he writes at the USA Today Trump: I don’t need to be lectured John McCain has called his own constituents who want a secure border “crazies.” […]

Planned Parent And Chattanooga Open Thread

I’ve had a couple people ask why there are no posts on the Planned Parenthood selling fetuses fiasco, nor on the Islamist Chattanooga terror attack. Quite frankly, the answer is simple: the stories occurred at a time I couldn’t blog about them, and I get so behind that I feel there isn’t much I could […]

Kid Rock Tells Anti-Confederate Flag Hysterics To Kiss His….

….well, you know (Rolling Stone) Even as South Carolina and major retailers officially disconnect themselves from the Confederate flag, the controversial symbol continues to have a prominent presence at Kid Rock‘s concerts. On Monday, the National Action Network’s Michigan chapter protested outside the Detroit Historical Museum, which houses a Kid Rock exhibit, demanding that the rocker stop displaying the […]

Oops: Background Check On Dylann Roof Was Flawed

Let’s see: the usual Leftist idiots blamed guns, ammunition, the Confederate flag, and wanted to institute all sorts of new background checks. How about if law enforcement, including the FBI, actually did the proper job in the first place? (NY Times) The man accused of killing nine people in a historically black church in South […]

Catholic School Teacher Fired For Gay Marriage, Democrats To Go After Funding

Who didn’t see this one coming? (NJ.com) Parents, alumni and students are standing behind a Montgomery County Catholic school teacher after she was apparently fired for her same-sex marriage, according to a report by 6 ABC. More than 100 people met at Jack’s Firehouse in Fairmount Wednesday to support Margie Winters, who was the religious education teacher […]

Should County Clerks Be Given “Conscientious Objector” Status On Gay Marriage?

An interesting question posed by the Christian Science Monitor (via Hot Air headlines) Gay marriage: Can religious clerks conscientiously object to issuing licenses? After the US Supreme Court’s decision declaring same-sex marriage a fundamental right last week, many county clerks and local magistrates soon found themselves at the center of new questions about the scope […]

AP Throws A Dose Of Reality Into Church Arson Controversy

There have been 8 predominantly Black churches which have burned over the last 10 days. Only 3 can positively be identified as being arson. The rest? Lightning strikes are some of the most probable causes, especially for the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Greeleyville, SC. Three of those fires have been ruled arson, […]

Montana Polygamists Apply For Wedding License

Well, this was quick (via Twitchy) (ABC News) A Montana man said Wednesday that he was inspired by last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage to apply for a marriage license so that he can legally wed his second wife. Nathan Collier and his wives Victoria and Christine applied at the Yellowstone County […]

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