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Ultimate in Schadenfreude: Democrat is Twice Bitten, Not Shy

There’s stupid. There’s really stupid. There’s really, really stupid. Then there’s Democrat stupid.

Welcome to EbolaCare -- but the Website is Down

A well known phenomenon in the animal kingdom is that when taking over a new pride, a lion will sometimes kill all the cubs. We don't know exactly what kind of feeling drives him in this bloody act, but there's obviously a lack of attachment. Suffice it to say the problem can be summed up thusly: it's not his family.

2014 Election: Blacks, Hispanics, Young and Women Still Reliably Liberal

The best predictor of future voting patterns is past voting patterns, to use a twist on a famous maxim. This is probably even truer of groups than individuals, and, despite some wishful thinking to the contrary, this election cycle was no exception. As to this, Silvio Canto at American Thinker recently asked “What Happened to ‘Demographics’?”

It’s Official: The Democrats are the Party of the Devil

So should the Democrats henceforth be known as the Demonrats? Will their new symbol be the Pentagram? Will they trade the donkey for the Tasmanian devil?

Does Barack Obama Have Blood on His Hands?

Little Eli Waller will never grow up to be president. The four-year-old New Jersey boy will never grow up to be anything because enterovirus D68 took his life--quite possibly because a boy who did grow up to be president, but not really a man, invited the virus into our country.

The Special Treatment Homosexuals Demand

There is one particular thing that illustrates better than anything else the unreasonableness--and some would say gall--of homosexuality activists. It's not demanding that bakers, shirt printers and wedding planners be party to events and expression deeply contrary to their principles, as offensive as that is. What I speak of is something even more fundamental, something again brought to light by the recent Vatican synod on the family.

Equal Work? Government Has No Idea What That is

An autocratic agency as incompetent as it is arrogant, Equal work, Equal pay

Liberal BBC Asks, "Is Sport Sexist?" While Promoting Inequality

It long ago became clear to me that, despite all the pretense, protesting and politicking, no one who has ever seriously thought about equality actually believes in it. When making this case, one could point to how Eric Holder's DOJ is currently suing the Pennsylvania State Police for treating women equally (how dare they!), but there's perhaps no better example than a recent BBC writer who asks, "Is sport sexist?"

If You Want to Get into a Really Big War, Elect a Liberal

If I pointed out that involvement in every major 20^th-century conflict the US was part of occurred on liberals' watch, it might not be entirely fair. True, there was WWI under Wilson, WWII under FDR, Korea under Truman, and Vietnam under Kennedy and Johnson. But the second Great War needed to be fought, four conflicts aren't exactly a scientific sample, and some could contend that these men were, to some extent, victims of timing and circumstance. It also should be said that with modernity's characteristic flaw of relativism causing ever shifting social visions, yesterday's liberals aren't like today's.

Immigration: The Ultimate Get-out-the-vote Drive

One reason predictions of a Mitt Romney victory in 2012 were inaccurate, say analysts, is that the turnout among certain Democrat constituencies — in particular blacks and Hispanics — was greater than expected. And what a significant factor this is. Whether we call it getting out the vote, having a great “ground game” or just turnout, it can make or break an election.

Libertarian Folly: Why Everybody is a Social-issues Voter

There is this notion, one we hear more and more, that the Republican Party has to shed the social issues to seize the future. "Social issues are not the business of government!" says thoroughly modern millennial. It's a seductive cry, one repeated this past Tuesday in an article about how some young libertarians dubbed the "Liberty Kids" are taking over the moribund Los Angeles GOP. Oh, wouldn't the political landscape be simple if we could just boil things down to fiscal responsibility? But life is seldom simple.

Muslim Kills Teacher in Front of Class

Prejudice lies with the liars-- The Media

Benedict Obama's Invasion of America

If millions of soldiers from south of the border were flooding our nation for the purposes of colonizing our land, we would easily recognize the threat. And if some amongst us were aiding and abetting this invasion--purposely lowering border security to facilitate it--we'd know what to call them. And we'd know how they should be dealt with.

Why I Hate Soccer

This article will be a departure from my usual fare. I will not claim there is some Absolute Truth deeming soccer the bane of humanity’s sports. I do not contend that some objective, divine standard places it in Dante’s ninth circle of athletic arenas, though I wish I could. Sport is a matter of taste, and, as G.K. Chesterton said (okay, so this isn’t a complete departure for me — I’m quoting Chesterton), “There are no uninteresting subjects, only uninterested people.” I get it. And I, I confess, like golf. So mock away. But in this piece I’ll ditch the Mr. Spock act, let my human side emote, may even contradict myself, and will say something.

Are Most Mass Murderers Really White?

Aside from attacks on the Second Amendment, there is a certain theme that's now repeated after every massacre committed by an unhinged individual: that most all mass killers are white. After the recent Elliot Rodger murders, for instance, Michael Moore said that he no longer had "anything to say" before immediately saying, "Nearly all of our mass shootings are by angry or disturbed white males."

How Covering up Minority Crime Leads to Gun Control

Commenting recently on the Elliot Rodger killings, arch-leftist Michael Moore wrote that while "other countries have more violent pasts...more guns per capita in their homes...and the kids in most other countries watch the same violent movies and play the same violent video games that our kids play, no one even comes close to killing as many of its own citizens on a daily basis as we do...." From a man who used to take the simple-minded gun-control position "fewer guns=less homicide," it was surprising evidence of growth. After making his point, however, Moore made a mistake in following up with, "and yet we don't seem to want to ask ourselves this simple question: "Why us? What is it about US?" It's not, however, that we don't want to ask the question.

Leftists Cancel School Honors Night — Too “Exclusive”

It’s increasingly the case in America that the nail that sticks up gets hammered down. A case in point is Archie R. Cole Middle School in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Writes East Greenwich Patch:

Michelle Obama in 1954

Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco — and Michelle Obama left her brain in 1954.

A Question for those Who Believe in Homosexual Scouts

Not satisfied with having pressured the Boy Scouts of America into lifting their prohibition against openly homosexual scouts, activists now want homosexual scoutmasters to be allowed as well. Equality, you know, is the order of the day. Yet the truth is that virtually all of you who advocate this social change operate with a certain bias — you just don’t realize it.

How Demagogues Con People

How do you know you’re being had by a slick politician? Writing in Mein Kampf about how to manipulate people and win power, Adolf Hitler said that since the average person had a very limited memory and a “slowness of understanding,” it was necessary to use only short, catchy slogans and repeat them often. Sound familiar?