LEE RODGERSPHONY
“RESIGNATIONS” …
THE NATIONAL DISEASE: STUPIDITY …
GUN OWNERS BITE BACK AT NEWSPAPER
THE NATIONAL DISEASE: STUPIDITY …
GUN OWNERS BITE BACK AT NEWSPAPER
Those four State Department officials who “resigned” to take the fall for the murder of the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans … didn't. The whole story was phony. They all now have other job titles, but they're still working at the State Department. Just another Obama administration lie.
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A nation of fools ... an ongoing series ...
Analysis of post-election polls shows that a majority of Americans thought Mitt Romney more competent on every tangible quality needed in a president, beginning with ability to guide the economy.
Yet he lost on the basis of one judgment call by a majority of voters: "He understands and/or 'cares about' people like me."
Yes. A majority of Americans found a greater self-identity with a man born in Hawaii (?) ... raised partly in Indonesia by an Indonesian stepfather ... mentored by communist grandparents and a shadowy father-figure who was a diehard communist … and advanced in politics by the infamous Daley machine in Chicago.
A man whose personal life revolves around lavish living financed by the taxpayers on a level that far surpasses the budget of the entire British royal family.
As compared to a man of impeccable moral credentials, successful in the world of business and generous in charitable giving and generous with his own time devoted to helping people in need and serving as a governor without salary.
We truly do live in a sick, sick, sick country.
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I can't prove it, but I deeply suspect that most Obama supporters agree with Harry Belafonte's expressed view that the president -- THIS president, that is -- should imprison anyone who disagrees with him.
They are, after all, "liberals."
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The people who crank out the White Plains, New York, newspaper that published the names and addresses of all registered gun owners in two counties are getting a taste of their own medicine.
A Second-Amendment advocate with computer smarts has assembled an interactive map showing the names and addresses of every employee of the paper, presumably for the benefit ofsupporters of gun ownership rights who might have something to say to them.
Let's see how employees of that rag like THAT. Perfect.
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Burt Prelutsky reflects on the Connecticut killer …
“Unlike some, I don’t blame society because Americans love their guns and, as a result, there are millions and millions of guns running around loose. I fault society because there are so many evil lunatics like Mr. Lanza being allowed to run around loose.
“Every time I hear about a person who requires meds in order to achieve something resembling mental stability, lest he lapse back into schizophrenia or paranoia, I say to myself, that person should be institutionalized because crazy people can’t be depended upon to faithfully take their medications. And anyone who thinks it’s a good idea to let them roam free is crazier than they are.”
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After episodes of mass murder, both Britain and Australia went into spasms of anti-gun fever and passed very rigid laws against gun ownership, including confiscation. The result: Those criminally-inclined still kept or obtained firearms … and the crime rate went up. But, of course, American liberals are incapable of absorbing the lessons of real-world experience.
Further … the nationwide murder rate in the U.S. last year was the lowest since 1961. Don't expect the manic media to report that.
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How hard is this to figure out? The real motivation for requiring firearms to be registered is ... if/when the anti-gun fanatics achieve their goals, it makes confiscation easier.
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Best line of the month on the Great Gun Control debate comes from Kurt Schlichter at Townhall.com …
“Let’s start with the most obvious omen that this tsunami has peaked. President Obama thrilled his base by grandstanding at the memorial, and then promptly washed his hands of it by handing it over to a 'blue ribbon commission.' Making Joe Biden its chairman was like staking a vampire through the heart, then hosing him down with holy water before burying his body beneath the Gilroy Garlic Festival.”
Five stars.
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While Democrat liars persist in telling their gullible dupes that “Social Security is financially secure for years to come,” here's a reality check: The Social Security program ran a $47.8 billion deficit in fiscal 2012. SS brought in $725.429 billion in cash and paid $773.247 billion or benefits and overhead expenses. Source: Official date from the Social Security Administration.
Clear enough? Social Security is already running in the red.
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Prof. Walter Williams with a reality check for disillusioned goo-goos who expected the “Arab spring” to bring more freedom and human rights to the oppressed …
“The human experience should have taught us that just getting rid of a particular dictatorship is only half the struggle. We must always ask what's going to replace it. The 1917 Russian revolution got rid of the Czars only to be replaced by the far greater brutality of the Bolsheviks under Joseph Stalin and his successors. In China, Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorial rule was replaced by Mao Tse-tung's unprecedented barbarity, which became responsible for the deaths of 76 million Chinese. Cuba's Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship was replaced with that of Fidel Castro. The injustices of Western colonialism in Africa were replaced with homegrown brutal dictators who murdered their citizens.
“What should the West do about the gross violations of human rights so prevalent in North Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere? My short answer is: mind our own business and only intervene when there are direct threats to our national defense or economic interests. Otherwise, what they want to do to one another is none of our business.”
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Here's what new instructions from above tell American troops in Afghanistan not to even mention to our "allied" Afghan forces ...
Anything related to Islam
Mention of any other religion and/or spirituality
Debating the war
Making derogatory comments about the Taliban
Advocating women’s rights and equality
Directing any criticism towards Afghans
Mentioning homosexuality and homosexual conduct
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Thomas Sowell's invaluable observations ...
Some people seem to think that, if life is not fair, then the answer is to turn more of the nation's resources over to politicians -- who will, of course, then spend these resources in ways that increase the politicians' chances of getting reelected.
The annual outbursts of intolerance toward any display of traditional Christmas scenes, or even daring to call a Christmas tree by its name, show that today's liberals are by no means liberal. Behind the mist of their lofty words, the totalitarian mindset shows through.
If you don't want to have a gun in your home or in your school, that's your choice. But don't be such a damn fool as to advertise to the whole world that you are in "a gun-free environment" where you are a helpless target for any homicidal fiend who is armed. Is it worth a human life to be a politically correct moral exhibitionist?
The more I study the history of intellectuals, the more they seem like a wrecking crew, dismantling civilization bit by bit -- replacing what works with what sounds good.
If someone wrote a novel about a man who was raised from childhood to resent the successful and despise the basic values of America -- and who then went on to become President of the United States -- that novel would be considered too unbelievable, even for a work of fiction. Yet that is what has happened in real life.
Many people say, "War should be a last resort." Of course it should be a last resort. So should heart surgery, divorce and many other things. But that does not mean that we should just continue to hope against hope indefinitely that things will work out, somehow, until catastrophe suddenly overtakes us.
After watching a documentary about the tragic story of Jonestown, I was struck by the utterly unthinking way that so many people put themselves completely at the mercy of a glib and warped man, who led them to degradation and destruction. And I could not help thinking of the parallel with the way we put a glib and warped man in the White House.
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Reader Margaret says her son created this season haiku …
Lovely Christmas day,
Family, food and fellowship.
Remembrances, too.
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Argus Hamilton --
"The Drug Enforcement Agency reports that Mexican drug cartels have mounted cannons near the U.S. border. They're are shooting bales of marijuana over the border into the U.S. This explains why Willie Nelson just bought a house in Arizona in the shape of a catcher's mitt."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."