“Keep an open mind; but not so open your brains fall out.”  No one is quite sure who first said that but, hoo-boy, it’s the perfect admonition these days. Consider what the Hollywood elite plan to do to the Oscars. To get consideration for “Best Picture,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will mandate minimum standards for diversity and equity. By 2024, those … [Read more...]

There’s a garden-variety gaff and then there’s a world-class blunder. Addressing a crowd in Reno and telling them that it’s good to be in Bakersfield is a gaff. Calling for regime change in a nuclear-armed Russia in front of an enthusiastic NATO crowd is a blunder. Unforced mistakes of substantial consequence have become a trademark for President Joe Biden.  As a … [Read more...]

We have much to worry about these days.  The worldwide pandemic featuring a bat virus developed in a shadowy Chinese lab with the possibility of U.S. money involved certainly moved to the top of my “OMG” list in 2022. And, while it is early, another worry comes in the specter of nuclear war in Ukraine. It channels a deep-seated fear for those of us who were told to hide … [Read more...]

Joe Biden’s the most snake-bit president in two centuries. In little over a year in office, he’s faced a worldwide pandemic, scary inflation followed by a botched Afghanistan withdrawal and now the potential start of World War III in Ukraine. If Americans could magically start all over again, I have no doubt they’d pick someone else – anyone else – to lead us through these … [Read more...]

Main topic of conversation at last week’s coffee klatch was President Biden’s State of the Union address. The general consensus of the group, both left and right, was that it was a complete dud. What Biden sought to do was to say that by working together we could solve all of America’s current problems. This after over a year of doing everything wrong, he is proposing a … [Read more...]

After decades, and hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain, our touchy-feely neighbors in California are now talking about a “new” solution to chronic homelessness. Although leaders there shroud the concept in euphemistic language, it is actually a very old idea: Incarceration. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week that he is calling for the mentally ill and drug … [Read more...]

While the world watched the war in Ukraine, President Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court.  As with all appointments to SCOTUS, Judge Jackson was a purely political appointment. But President Biden took it a step further, putting qualifications secondary to the right gender plumbing and skin color. This appointment had to be a Black … [Read more...]