Busy day
I’ve got a very busy day today. I was just working on a long post and ran out of time. Gotta go! So, probably this evening I’ll grind out some more. Till then, enjoy the weekend, and talk amongst yourselves.
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In the great “migrant” crisis, what are liberals thinking?
The following is a quote from Evan Sayet. It was written in 2007 and is not specifically about immigration, it is simply about the worldview and motivation of liberals today. But it strikes me that it certainly applies to the … Continue reading →
Rick, we hardly knew ye
He’s out of the race. I liked Rick Perry. But he never really caught on, for whatever reasons. I think there just wasn’t anything that special about him compared to the many others, plus there were some lingering memories of … Continue reading →
Some blunt talk on “migrants” to Europe from a French ex-minister
Which he then tried to walk back. Here’s how it went: A former French minister stirred up controversy Friday after saying Germany “took our Jews and gave us Arabs” as France began taking some of the thousands of refugees arriving … Continue reading →
The House rejects the Iran deal with bipartisan support
Twenty-five House Democrats joined all the House Republicans (save Massie of Kentucky, who voted “present”) in voting “no” to approval of Obama’s Iran deal. So once again, a bill has bipartisan support—and that support goes against the president. And once … Continue reading →
9/11: fourteen years
On 9/11’s 10th anniversary I wrote a post that contained this observation: For those of us who were grownups when 9/11 happened, it’s also been transmuted””not to something that was always there, but to something that’s been incorporated into our … Continue reading →
House passes resolution saying Obama didn’t comply with the law
The House is able to do what the Senate cannot, because the House has no filibuster or cloture to allow the minority to block a vote even if the majority wants one. And so we have this: The House on … Continue reading →
Iran deal disapproval vote is blocked by Democrats in Senate: this is what they call a “victory”
As completely expected, the Iran deal disapproval measure failed to win the requisite 60+ votes to invoke cloture in the Senate and allow a vote on the merits. We’ve known for quite some time that this would happen. But this … Continue reading →
The mysterious Homo naledi
A new human fossil has been found, and it has some intriguing and unusual characteristics: The researchers suggest that the fossils represent a previously unknown species in our genus, Homo, one that had a peculiar mix of physical traits and … Continue reading →
Trump the loose cannon
Trump’s Carly Fiorina “face” remark has highlighted and accentuated something about him that was already clear: he is a loose cannon, and he gets off on that and thinks many of his followers will get off on it, as well. … Continue reading →
Donald Trump: at face value
Is it really such a good idea to make fun of a rival candidate’s looks? It doesn’t matter if it’s a man or a woman being mocked, or a man or a woman doing the mocking. It’s always an extremely … Continue reading →
“Interesting” times
There has been so much news lately that it’s hard to keep up with it, much less write about every topic that I consider vitally important and/or entertaining and/or amusing and/or inspiring and on which I have something to say. … Continue reading →