The Trump Backlash Continues
A $6 billion golf community under construction in Dubai is removing his name from the project. Trump was tossed from a respected business network in Scotland, where the billionaire says he invested more than $300 million in golf courses and other developments. And Lifestyle, a retailer that does business in an enormous marketplace spanning the Middle East, India and Africa, … Read More
Thoughts and Prayers
There seems to be a backlash to this almost reflexive (and increasingly meaningless) response to mass shootings, best exemplified by the cover of today’s New York Daily News: There has also been a backlash to the backlash. Christians got offended at what is being called “thoughts and prayers shaming”. The Weekly Standard offered a headline that blared,“Liberal Outrage Over Prayers … Read More
Nice Vetting, Fox News
CNN reports: Wayne Simmons, a recurring guest on Fox News who claimed to have 27 years of experience with the CIA, was arrested Thursday after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he lied about his service. Simmons is accused of falsely claiming that he worked as an “outside paramilitary special operations officer” for the CIA from … Read More
Fox News Moron Doubles Down With Dr. Carson: Stupid Jews Could Have Taken The Nazis
Yes, the European Jews were just a bunch of pants-wetting pansies back in the thirties: Dr. Ben Carson recently asserted that if guns had not been confiscated from Jews then Hitler would have had more trouble orchestrating the Holocaust. Jonathan Greenblatt, National Director of the Anti-Defamation Leauge, quickly objected, stating that there were few firearms available to Jews in Germany … Read More
Megan McArdle Should Stop Thinking… And Writing
Daily Beast columnist Megan McArdle has figured it out. The mass shooting problem. We don’t have to debate it anymore. In a long screed at the Daily Beast entitled “There’s Little We Can Do to Prevent Another Massacre”, McArdle goes through all the proposals out there — banning certain guns, taxing or banning ammunition, greater checks on the mentally ill, etc. … Read More
Incredible This Woman Was A Senator And Presidential Candidate
Oh, Michele Bachmann, you are so missed. Check out this wonderful Tweet: US turns its back on Israel, disasters following http://t.co/1hYq8GAP7j — Michele Bachmann (@MicheleBachmann) October 4, 2015 That’s right. God is mad at us because we turned our back (somehow) on Israel. That’s why he chose to flood a red state. Or something. I guess.
Chart Of The Day
Grammerly is an app that, well, judges and fixes your grammer (in, say, Word documents). The folks at Grammerly went to 2016 Presidential candidates’ Facebook page, taking comments that were at least 15 words long and expressed either positive or neutral feelings about the candidate. Then, the app selected at least 180 of those comments to analyze for each candidate. Which … Read More
Shorter Ramesh Ponnuru
Shorter Ramesh Ponnuru (ex-convict at National Review Online): “Okay, I admit that the alarming amount of guns is responsible for all these mass shootings. Why can’t the left admit that dead American kids are a small price to pay for the civil liberties of gun owners?”
The Right Wing Welcomes The Pope
The Pope’s message:: In his strongest remarks yet concerning the world’s economic and financial crises, the pope said, “Money has to serve, not to rule. “We have created new idols,” Pope Francis told a group of diplomats gathered at the Vatican on May 16, and the “golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult … Read More
What If They Overthrew Texas And Nobody Came?
Hey! Remember Jade Helm 15? The U.S. Military operation this past summer that was supposed to overthrow the state of Texas and was somehow supposed to keep Obama in office for a third term that 1/3 of all Republicans and 1/2 of all Tea Party members believed to be an actual thing? Yeah… good times.
Why Ben Shapiro Is An Ass (And Peggy Noonan Is A Liar)
This is so unbelievably bizarre. Esquire even calls it “the dumbest response to the Virginia TV shooting”. Shaprio (and Breitbart.com, which posted this — Shapiro is the Editor) argues this: After the Charleston shootings, he says, the “entire political and media establishment” blamed the Confederate flag. So if they were consistent, he goes on, then we should blame Black Lives Matter … Read More
Jorge Ramos Commits A Heinous Act Of Journalism
So Trump gave another news conference last night that was an exercise in rudeness. Basically what happened was this: Jorge Ramos, the Univision anchor and journalist, extensively squabbled with Donald Trump twice in testy exchanges at a news conference before his rally here Tuesday, with a security officer at one point ejecting Ramos from the event. “Go back to Univision,” … Read More
An Observation
Isn’t it amusing that conservatives claim to love America, but want to wave the Confederate flag which was used by several states in its war against America? Isn’t it amusing how conservatives claim to love the Constitution, but when it is explained to them what it says, they want to change it?
The Dishonest Attack On Shaun King
I saw this story bubbling a couple days ago, and even the mainstream media was touching it. Certainly, Fox was. It has to do with the race of a #BlackLivesMatter activist named Shaun King. In the blogosphere, Breitbart “News” seems to have launched a virulent attack Shaun King, alleging that he’s been lying about his heritage like Rachel Dolezal, and is … Read More