LEE RODGERSLIBERALS WANT YOU UNARMED AND
DEFENSELESS ...
OBAMA'S OBSESSION WITH GROWING THE PUBLIC PAYROLL ...
DEMOCRATS LOVE THE 1% -- IF NAMED KENNEDY, KERRY, ETC.
OBAMA'S OBSESSION WITH GROWING THE PUBLIC PAYROLL ...
DEMOCRATS LOVE THE 1% -- IF NAMED KENNEDY, KERRY, ETC.
It was bound to happen after all the hype over the Trayvon Martin shooting. An attack on so-called "stand your ground" laws in several states, including Florida. The government's instrument for for this "investigation" is the Civil Rights Commission. One of the commission members is a former member of the notoriously loony San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
The clear goal is to kill state laws that enable a citizen to use deadly force when in imminent danger of being assaulted. In other words, there are elements within the U.S. government that want to make it illegal for you to defend yourself against criminals. In more other words, they are determined that your role in any such encounter is to be a hapless victim.
The Florida law was inspired by an epidemic of carjackings. When criminals figured out that they just might find themselves staring down the barrel of a .38, the epidemic abated. And liberal protests that allowing law-abiding citizens to be armed would result in another epidemic of shootings by newly-armed people prepared to defend themselves proved to be a false alarm.
All in all, it reaffirmed the code of the old west: "An armed society is a polite society." Tough guys are less inclined to bully someone who just may be packing heat.
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Democrats endlessly replay Romney's admittedly maladroit line about liking to fire people; replay it out of context, of course.
Actually, anybody who's ever had any experience with any government agency, from the DMV to the TSA to the IRS to the guy leaning on his shovel at the government "infrastructure" job knows full well that firing the incompetent, slothful and inefficient is the ONLY way to fix a failing business -- or government. If you've never encountered such a person in any government operation, count yourself fortunate -- and rare.
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Mickey Kaus (Daily Caller) reacts to Obama's concern about shrinkage of government jobs, while maintaining -- then correcting himself -- that the private sector is "fine" ...
"The problem is that many voters (myself included) don’t think government jobs are just another sector. We want the number of housing and manufacturing jobs to keep growing–the more the merrier, all things being equal. We don’t want the number government jobs to keep growing, in part because we pay for them without the assurances, offered in a competitive private economy, that we’re getting our moneys worth or that the jobs are necessary at all. It’s one thing to boost government jobs as a temporary stimulus measure. It’s another thing to never let federal, state and local governments shrink to a more sustainable size."
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Romney's wealth is now an issue as the Democrats turn to their old reliable, envy politics. But big bux were never a concern when they considered Roosevelt, Kennedys, Kerry, etc.
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Wouldn't the proper term be "Regressives" instead of "Progressives" for people who want to return to Roosevelt's 1930's policies that prolonged the depression?
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Polls show Hillary to be the most popular politician in the country in a count obviously heavily weighted with Democrats.
One question for those so enchanted: Exactly what has she accomplished? Let's hear a list of her concrete achievements.
If the American public had asked -- and gotten answers -- to a similar question four years ago, it's unlikely we'd have the ongoing embarrassment that IS Barack Obama in the White House.
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An oversimplified one word explanation for the inbred nature of American politics, unfair but with a large dollop of truth: Harvard.
When frequent candidates of both parties wallow in the same culture, the concerns of average Americans fail to penetrate the layer of elitist skin they develop.
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I would not want to be a functionary of any government agency currently involved in trying to deny the tough little town of Tombstone, Arizona ("The town too tough to die"), water to the residents of that community.
Sounds like hazardous duty in a place still haunted by the likes of Wyatt Earp and his brothers, the Clanton family and Doc Holliday, of whom it was said, “Doc was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long, lean, ash-blond fellow nearly dead from consumption, at the same time the most skilful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun I ever knew.” -- Wyatt Earp, San Francisco Examiner - August 2, 1896.
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I was a youthful lad in radio when I worked with Dewey Phillips, whose colorful life is the centerpiece of the long-running Broadway hit show, "Memphis." If anyone among our readers has seen it, I'd appreciate whatever opinions might be offered before I fly to New York to see it. Ol' Dewey was one wild dude. Wink Martindale (of quiz-show fame) and I were part of the lineup that included Dewey at a great radio station, WHBQ.
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Re yesterday's reference to Arizonans' resistance to being "Californiaized": I did consider another bastardized word, "Californicated," but being a person of impeccable taste ...
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Dr. Bud provides some fascinating facts about the human body ...
It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
One human hair can support 6.6 pounds.
The average man's penis is two times the length of his thumb.
Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
Women blink twice as often as men.
The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.
Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
Women will be finished reading this by now.
Men are still busy checking their thumbs.
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."