Tamir Rice and the Policeman’s Day in Court

At first blush, it sounds crazy. A socialist, running in a Democrat primary, who has made a career of limiting American influence abroad thinks he can attract voters from a GOP candidate who is running on the motto “Make America Great.” But that is part of the plan of Bernie Sanders. The underlying idea apparently is that Trump is channeling anger and Sanders is channeling | Read More »

If Rubio fizzles in Iowa, unable to get third there, and then fizzles in New Hampshire, he starts to slow down significantly as voters and the press look to see who did better than Rubio in New Hampshire. If it is Chris Christie, we’re going to hear a lot about him as we head to South Carolina. And because of Christie’s terrible gun views, the south is going to consolidate even more quickly to Ted Cruz. That makes it harder for Rubio to regain any momentum.

Just one day after Christmas, North Texas was hit with a devastating storm that produced EF3 and EF4 tornadoes, and damaged over a thousand homes.  Living in Tornado Alley, we get our fair share of tornadoes, but this one was the second deadliest tornado outbreak in the DFW area’s history. Eleven people were killed in the storms, including a 3-day-old newborn baby.  The Rowlett City Manager | Read More »

I’m technically a donor to the Donald Trump campaign. I bought a hat as a historical curiosity. So, apparently that meant the Trump campaign (which is under serious pressure from Ted Cruz by the way) wanted to send me a Christmas card. The problem is, it didn’t even come in time for the start of Christmas! Failure!

The title here is not at all an exaggeration or a mischaracterization. Myanmar, which at least theoretically took a major step forward as a country (in terms of things like basic human rights) this year by kicking out what was effectively a military junta. Myanmar stunned the world when the country held elections that were actually reasonably open and resulted in a peaceful transition of power to | Read More »

Al Sharpton vs. Rahm Emanuel. Let them both lose…

If you read the news you would be excused for thinking there is actually a war going on in Syria. You’d also be forgiven for thinking that Syria, never a Garden of Eden, has collapsed into a festering, effervescing puddle of FAIL that can’t even aspire to the worth term of Third World S**t Hole. But you would be wrong. While you were wasting valuable | Read More »

There are occasions when I look at the New York Times and wonder how, if it were actually owned by the Democrats in general and the Clintons in particular, would it be different from the current newspaper that apparently believes it is an objective reporter of current affairs. Today is one of those moments. Case in point: How Hillary Clinton Went Undercover to Examine Race | Read More »

Ever since 9/11 we have been harped at the left on two issues — other than the US deserving the 9/11 attacks, I mean. The first of these is that we shouldn’t give into the completely understandable human impulse to strike back at the religious community that has spawned one conscienceless murderer after another and the second idea is that we need to be really | Read More »

The Ohio police officer who shot and killed a 12 year old boy named Tamir Rice was not indicted by a grand jury, multiple news outlets are reporting, and will apparently not face criminal charges. The prosecutor who gave the statement today said he had recommended no charges be filed. In November 2014, the cop, Timothy Loehmann, and his partner, Frank Garmback, were on the scene when | Read More »

CNN has conducted a poll which shows that the Democrats might have a long, hard slog ahead of them in the Presidential elections, pretty much no matter who the Republican opponent is. At the end of the day, people want government to do a lot of different things for them, but the baseline for success for any government is protecting the citizenry from foreign invaders. | Read More »

Right now, there is a movement in Congress to ban Internet-only taxes, meaning you won’t be asked to pay tax on e-mail or Internet access. It is a movement that makes sense, because it opens the door wide for the government to take more and cut less, not to mention give the government yet another in-road to regulating Internet use. Enter Lamar Alexander, who is | Read More »

There are a number of inexorable truths about the modern human condition that bear upon the left’s current fetish with global warming. The first is that achieving a significant reduction in carbon emissions is flatly impossible if the world’s population continues to grow. The second is that some amount of population growth is necessary to healthy and sustainable economic growth. Liberals, of course, care nothing | Read More »

It is no secret that the mainstream media might as well be on the DNC’s payroll. Major scandals involving Democrats go unremarked. When they are remarked upon, often the political affiliation is buried deep in the story if mentioned at all. I’m not talking only about the editorial pages, the devotion of the media to Democrats infests the actual news gathering function of newspapers, magazines, and | Read More »

Guns Guns and more Guns.  We love to shop for them, read about them, shoot them.  There are more guns in this country than there are citizens.  We won our country’s independence with guns, and in turn when our founding fathers drafted out our rights as Americans they clearly protected our right to keep and to bear arms.  In modern America the every day run | Read More »