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.
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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 decent black people.
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 through such arrogant elitists if we want to cling to our freedom.
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 people especially.
Irresponsible ‘Education’: Ivory Towers of Indoctrination
Nothing is easier than to prove that America, or any other society of human beings, is far from being the perfect gem that any of us can conjure up in our imagination.
Local or National Elections?
What is the overriding national issue that makes this year’s Congressional elections so crucial?
Ebola and Obama
The safety of the American people takes second place to the goal of helping people overseas.
Random Thoughts September 2014
Why Republicans would bring up the subject of immigration during an election year is beyond me. Yet Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner seems drawn to the subject like a moth to a flame.
Who Wants War?
Some pundits are saying that President Obama has been floundering in his response to the ISIS crisis because public opinion polls show most Americans don’t want another war.
Late-Talking Children
A child can be years behind schedule in beginning to speak and yet go on to have a perfectly normal life.
Cheap Politicians
Cheap politicians turn out to be very expensive politicians, in the way they waste money, even if they are not stealing it.
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