I didn’t know until today of a further statement President Obama made in his closing remarks at the Anti-Terrorism summit. This particular remark is simply unbelievable from a historical standpoint. Does the president not care at all to tell the whole truth, or any truth for that matter? Does he, as one writer put it, […]
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“Don’t Know Much About History”
23 Feb 2015
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The “Jobs for Jihadis” Issue, Taken Seriously
20 Feb 2015
I wanted to address the “Jobs for Jihadists” ruckus from the past few days in a bit more detail. The reader may remember I mentioned this in my post of earlier on President Obama’s terrorism summit. Obama and spokespeople had suggested that one major solution to the terrorist problem was the economic situation in Islamic […]
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The Summit That Was Not
19 Feb 2015
I listened to part of President Obama’s closing speech at the “Anti-extremism Summit” today. And I have read what his associates have said about terrorism, particularly in the context of the ISIS threat. I have reached a conclusion about the president, after hearing and reading his words. But first, what did he say today (February […]
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Net Neutrality or Net Inefficiency
14 Feb 2015
It looks like the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) is up to its tricks again, trying for the third time to regulate pretty much every aspect of the internet like an old-style telephone company. Tom Wheeler, the FCC chairman, announced a 322 page set of new rules, but will not release it to the public. Yes […]
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Did He Really Say That?
11 Feb 2015
Have we come to this point in our culture or is this just an “outlier”? Yesterday, Representative Elijah Cummings (D-Md) made the following statement in a speech to Federal union members: “People do not seem to understand that so many people come to government knowing that they are not going to make the kind of […]
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Another Historical Distortion, by Bill Maher
09 Feb 2015
Bill Maher tells authoritatively that capitalism did not produce a middle class. It was actually worse than that. I quote extensively from his statements on “Real Time” on HBO because you have to read it to believe someone said it: “so what’s happening is, the Democrats are proposing to nibble around the edges of our […]
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The President’s History Lecture
06 Feb 2015
On January 5, President Obama, in a speech at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, equated the current jihadist threat with “terrible deeds committed in the name of Christ.” Read the entire speech to get the full context. But if you do, you will find President Obama bending over backward to find some moral equivalency between […]
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Legal Niceties? Or Necessities?
29 Jan 2015
It now seems that in at least a few locations in the United States—not Great Britain—we are seeing “voluntary” Sharia law courts. As one journalist put it, this is how the formal Sharia law courts began in England. First it was simply voluntary. One could opt to have one’s case heard by a group of […]
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SOTU and Inequality (Once Again)
27 Jan 2015
In light of the State of the Union Address by President Obama, I am compelled once again (as if I were a “broken record”) to address the President’s proposals to raise taxes on “the rich” in order to reduce inequality and provide new services to those with lower incomes. Perhaps there are some new readers […]
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The National Labor Relation Board recently made a judicial ruling (yes, it is an administrative agency, but agencies do act like courts frequently) concerning the rights of faculty at private colleges and universities to unionize. The actual decision is somewhat complicated and I have not yet read it in full, but the upshot of it […]
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