New UK nuisance law includes targeting Carol Singers

As we swing in to the heights of the holiday season, caroling teams in the UK had better employ a police look-out less they are deemed a nuisance by grumpy home-dwellers that end up reporting them for creating a disturbance.

Relaunch or More Leftover Turkey

As many of us anxiously waited throughout the entire Thanksgiving dinner, through all three football games and after becoming accustomed to watching that much contact sports, it almost seemed natural to get out there and be part of the action-packed Black Friday shopping, with one hand pushing the crowds away and the other on the very best X-Box deal we could find.

America's Socialist Government

Norman Thomas, the six-time Socialist Party candidate for U.S. President, said the following in a 1944 speech: (69 years ago!)

ObamaCare offers lots of options . . . all bad

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has awarded a $1.1 million contract to Families USA to establish a database of Obama "success" stories. Obviously these stories will be used to help President Obama "re-market and rebrand" ObamaCare as he said last week on Fox News.

What I Learned as a Medical Journalist

“Have you ever thought you’d like to be a journalist?” Well, here’s the good and the bad. First, I was well trained at The Harvard Medical School, but as a journalist I’ve had an unprecedented learning experience searching for information I would never have sought before, on all sorts of topics. The bad? The profession requires responsibility, discipline, thick skin and recurring deadlines. So I’ve written about the experience in a book titled, “What I Learned as a Medical Journalist.”

Hands Off: Will federal authorities keep you from your own money in the face of another financial crisis?

Are U.S. federal government policy makers planning for an economic meltdown? Fiscal and financial news isn’t a particularly sexy topic for broad audiences, even under normal circumstances. And over the Thanksgiving national holiday weekend, about the only news people care to consume are football scores.

“Where are the priests? We want to burn them at the stake”

The National Post’s November 27 headline Why being a Christian could be the most dangerous identity to hold in the world today can be interpreted in more ways than one.

A Bang-Up Week

Last week was a killer for America, but a bang-up one for Barack Hussein Obama in furthering his Mission from Marx to destroy free, constitutional, capitalist America. It started out with Harry Reid (D-NV), the neo-fascist Senate Majority Leader doing a complete 180 degree switch on the Senate's prerogative of advise and consent on presidential nominations. The minority party's option to filibuster nominations they deem unworthy, for whatever reason, an option that had existed in the Senate for over 200 years, is gone. One party rule is the "new normal".

Violence is Very Human

The “knockout game” is in the news these days along with much discussion of bullying. Football is a game of violence with rules in which players frequently sustain injuries. Terrorism has been adopted to advance the Islamic goal of global domination.

Planting Pits and other Outdoor Activities

In the United States, for reasons best known to themselves, December has been declared both National Pear Month and National Fruit Cake Month, along with the 15th December being National Cupcake Day. In China, presumably because their ancient culture really appreciates such, the Chinese celebrate the winter solstice, 21/22 December, by feasting on dumplings in northern areas, sticky puddings in the south. But why this Christmas Day, Thursday 25th December, Americans will celebrate as National Pumpkin Pie Day is to the rest of us a mystery. Elsewhere we have other ideas in mind.

Manufacturing Intolerance

By now everyone knows that Dayna Morales, the lesbian waitress who claimed to have been denied a tip over her sexual orientation, was lying. It's not the first politically correct receipt hoax and it won't be the last. These hoaxes happen because leftist activists promote them and the media picks them up. The world is full of liars and con artists, but it's revealing to see which of their lies and cons succeed.

Obamas revert to activist mode for Thanksgiving 2013

Barack and Michelle Obama Thanksgiving hypocrisy hit an all time high this year.

Lies my president told me

"Under my plan, if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan. Period. Nothing changes, except your health insurance costs will go down."

Canada: I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin' …

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, in its current General assessment of the macroeconomic situation of the global economy, gives 2 Tables, A1a and A1b, titled Indicators of potential financial vulnerabilities. These tables list 12 categories of macroeconomic activity that could warn of financial vulnerability. They are:

The Finger of Doom

It was President Carter in 1979 who naively misunderstood the internal politics of Iran and let the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, be overthrown by Islamists. Carter was overjoyed to let the Ayatollah Khomeini return from his exile in France to take over the Iranian state. Astonishingly as we look back now at his actions, Carter believed that he was undertaking a human rights agenda.

A Father’s Legacy

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach - W.E.B. Du Bois. For any number of reasons, a child mimics his or her role model. It is essential that parents remain active in a child’s life.

The ObamaCare Propaganda Campaign

In an effort that exemplifies both desperation and contempt for the public, the Obama administration, in coordination with its media cheerleading squad, is determined to rebrand ObamaCare. Toward that end, Families USA (FUSA) a self-described "national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans" was given a $1.1 million grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Their mission is to gather ObamaCare success stories and feed them to the media. Thus the American left embarks on yet another mission to "change the narrative" of a disaster entirely of their own making.

Black Friday - Welcome to America, & why does Britain want this?

A curiously increasing custom stateside is Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the traditional kick-off of the American Christmas holiday season. But whereas there is no Thanksgiving in Britain (because it celebrates British pilgrims who left the UK behind), the nation’s retailers are still trying to emulate the American way.

WSJ: Obama's FTC now going after evil capitalist piano teachers

I bet you didn't know the kindly old lady who taught you piano when you were 9 was actually part of a nefarious price-fixing scam that threatened the economic well-being of consumers everywhere. But don't worry. The federal government is on the case, as Kim Strassel reports in Potomac Watch column for the Wall Street Journal:

Obama tells Baba Wawa: Hey, I've got nowhere to go but up!

I actually admire a person who is willing to think positively in the face of swirling disaster. Sometimes people make the mistake of thinking a leader is "in denial" when he's actually trying to keep his focus on ways to solve the problem.