If the Biden Administration’s obituary were written today, it might start like this: “He played with fire.” It’s not that the politics of Joe Biden came as any big surprise. He was not Donald Trump, so check Box No. 1. And, although Biden used the COVID pandemic to avoid scrutiny from the media (this problem -- now evident  with fumbling and bumbling -- is a topic for … [Read more...]

(Update: Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he will resign.) New York Attorney General Letitia James released a report last week finding that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women. President Joe Biden urged Coumo to resign.  Who knows how this soap opera ends. But, there’s two things I think we can deduce at this point: 1) Andrew Cuomo is, indeed, a total arse, … [Read more...]

The CDC has done it again. It reversed itself on masks for the vaccinated. Remember, it was only 30 days ago that President Joe Biden declared victory over COVID-19. We were supposed to be free of masks. The president even said so -- twice -- on national teevee. The vaccinated no longer need to wear a mask, he said. Well, like the president himself, that statement didn’t age … [Read more...]

It wasn’t quite the memorable moment when in 1969 Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon and said "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." But it was pretty damn cool nonetheless. Richard Branson, a billionaire thrill seeker who never lost the dream of space travel, did just that  last weekend in his own winged rocket ship. He had a crew of four with … [Read more...]

Regular readers know how I love a good joke. Some will say that I also love a bad joke, which I suppose is fair enough. Nevertheless, I was interested to read recently a disturbing trend of killing American satire websites on the grounds that it is political “misinformation.”  Babylon Bee is a website with a conservative bent. Apparently it’s been hitting too close to … [Read more...]

Californians will tell you that it comes as no surprise to them that Kamala Harris is coming apart at the seams on the world stage. Even her biggest fans privately say she needs a lot of polishing outside her bubble of sycophants. So, when she fell into becoming Joe Biden’s running mate and then the vice presidency, most political watchers wondered how long it would take for … [Read more...]

Sherman R. Frederick/Publisher The strange state on the other side of the Sierras is looking to compensate African Americans enslaved during the Gold Rush..  Yes, slavery existed then in California (and Nevada, too). You can read more about that at the California Historical Society blog. Google it. You’ll find enslavement of African Americans was not the … [Read more...]

G.K. Chesterton once said that “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” That pretty much sums up the new tactic in the debate between the COVID-19 vaccinated and the unvaccinated.  First, let me declare that I have been vaccinated. I think people should get vaccinated, but I understand people who don’t want to get vaccinated. Fine. Let ‘em do … [Read more...]