When Alfred E. Neuman said “What me worry?” on the cover of Mad magazine, it was funny. But this message was not nearly as funny coming from President Barack Obama and his National Security Advisor, Susan Rice.
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Measles, Vaccines and Autism
The claim that the vaccine for measles causes autism has been discredited by evidence.
Stormy Weather and Politics
The ultimate test of any theoretical model is not how loudly it is proclaimed but how well it fits the facts.
Obama Versus America
The biggest advantage that the children of low-income immigrants have over the children of native-born, low-income families is that low-income immigrants have not been saturated for generations with the rhetoric of victimhood and hopelessness, spread by people like Obam…
Random Thoughts for January 2015
Demographic “diversity” is a notion often defended with fervor but seldom with facts.
Early Presidential Prospects
Everyone knows what the Democrats stand for, but even some Republicans in Congress seem to have only a hazy idea of what principles Republicans stand for.
‘Diversity’ in Action
Europe is currently in the process of paying the price for years of importing millions of people from a culture hostile to the fundamental values of Western culture.
New Year’s Irresolution
Obama is for redistribution, even at the expense of his own country — if someone with such a “citizen of the world” viewpoint really thinks of America as his country, rather than a staging area for his world-changing, ideologically-driven crusades.
The ‘Equality’ Racket
What may be a spontaneous confusion among the public at large about the very different meanings of the word “equality” can be a carefully cultivated confusion by politicians, lawyers and others skilled in rhetoric, who can exploit that confusion for their own bene…
Are Facts Obsolete?
Reasoned thoughts on Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Rodney King.
A Year of Anniversaries
Anniversaries are opportunities to look back at historic turning points, compare the rhetoric of the time with the reality that we now know unfolded — and to learn hard lessons about the difference between rhetoric and reality for our own time.
Random Thoughts December 2014
When the political left wants to help the black community, they usually want to help the worst elements in that community — thugs they portray as martyrs, for example — without the slightest regard for the negative effect this can have on the lives of the majority of …
Who’s Responsible?
The race card is nothing to play with. It can ruin us all.
The Legacy of Liberalism
If we are to go by evidence of social retrogression, liberals have wreaked more havoc on blacks than the supposed “legacy of slavery” they talk about.
Tortured Reasoning: Attacking Those Who Defend Us
Some thoughts about those who safeguard our lives: the CIA, police and military.
Is Law Optional?
If grand juries are supposed to vote on the basis of what mobs want, instead of on the basis of the evidence that they see — and which the mob doesn’t even want to see — then we forfeit the rule of law and our freedom that depends on it.
Opinions Versus Facts: Michael Brown, Officer Wilson and The Ferguson Riots
Who benefits from the Ferguson riots?
Beware of Our Betters
Jonathan Gruber’s notion that the people are “stupid” is not fundamentally different from what Obama said to his fellow elite leftists in San Francisco, when he derided ordinary Americans as petty people who want to cling to their guns and their religion. We need to see…
Racial Quota Punishment
Letting kids who are behavior problems in schools grow up to become hoodlums and then criminals is no favor to them or to the black community.
A Legacy of Liberalism
we could compare hard evidence on “the legacy of slavery” with hard evidence on the legacy of liberals.
What Happened?
Pundits who depict Obama as a weak, lame duck president may be greatly misjudging him, as they have so often in the past.
Voter Fraud and Voter I.D.
The Real Fraud is The Racial Hysteria and Cynicism Promoted By The Democrats to The Detriment of Blacks
Random Thoughts For October 2014
Never take other people for granted. There is a point of no return in all relationships.
Predatory Journalism Against The Freedom To Price
Editorial demagoguery against “predatory” lending might well be called predatory journalism — taking advantage of other people’s ignorance of economics to score ideological points, and promote still more expansion of government powers that limit the options of poor peo…
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