Month: January 2019

If ever there was a time to pity House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, this may be the time.  It is a case of being careful what you ask for.  She got her speakership through the election of some of the most rabid left-wing radicals in America.  They are not small-d democrats.  Much like the Nazi experience in Germany, these folks want to use the legal political process to gain a foothold, but they will push aside democratic traditions and institutions to gain permanent power.  That is their goal.  It is part…

It would appear that the partial shutdown has forced the IRS to lay off almost all of their employees considered as none essential. A statement by Bacon & Gendrean (a tax preparation firm) informing their clients on December 28th that because of the government shutdown, “the IRS has furloughed all but 12% of its employees across the country.” Because of that, the IRS “will continue to process electronically filed and paper returns with payments” but they “will not issue any refunds.” Besides, the agency “will not perform audits or process…

If your devotion is to all, what is the value of your love? Are such displays of emotion not useless if any member of the horde on the other side of the hill holds the same space in your heart as those who have built their lives around you, who have celebrated and suffered by your side? Is it not pathological to care for strangers more than those next to you? Shockingly, such a standard has become politically correct in much of the Western World. Be it African or Middle…

Soon after the fanfare of seating the new Congress died down — now that the Democrats control the House — the inevitable talk of impeachment began. The most visceral such call to impeach the president came from freshman Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a practicing Muslim who made a profanity-laced vow to remove him from office. In a video she made after being sworn in she said, “Now we can impeach the Motherf****er.” She subsequently defended her remarks, saying she will “always speak truth to power.” Without directly referring to Tlaib…

The Washington Post has taken upon itself to be the scorekeeper on President Trump’s rhetorical accuracy. They currently claim more than 7000 of what they call “lies” That, in and of itself, is a stretch of the truth. To visualize their score of presidential veracity, the folks of the Fourth Estate have literally tossed one gumball into a large jar for each alleged lie by the President. They further claim that the frequency of these prevarications is increasing exponentially. In his prosecutorial brief, Victor Blackwell, of CNN, presided over several…

When it comes to television ratings, it is too often an example of that old adage that figures do not lie, but liars figure. If you surgically analyze all the variables in the rating matrix, almost any slick-sleeve public relations practitioner can make anything look like a winner. This is done by ignoring the basic overarching statistics and manipulating others to concoct a good sounding – if not totally accurate – picture. In analyzing ratings, the Washington Post suggested that they should be “treated like exposed wiring in a flooded…