“Patient Zero: the person identified as the first carrier of a communicable disease in an outbreak of related cases.” It’s sometimes helpful to identify origins of poxes upon the body politic. Here are four personal pox picks to click. 1. RONALD WILSON REAGAN. To keep a campaign promise, he needed a token female to appoint to the US Supreme Court. Alas, conservative babes … [Read more...]
Democrats in Margaritaville
“Some people claim there’s a woman to blame, but I know it’s my own damn fault.” Jimmy Buffett sang those words four decades ago and nothing better describes today’s Donkeykong Party collectively crying in its beer. Desperate liberals are now begging for street demonstrations. A Hollywood outfit called RefuseFascism.org paid for a Jan. 4 full page in The New York Times … [Read more...]
Eye For An Eye: Karma Snaps Back on Harry
We won’t say Harry Reid is dumb as a post. We’d need an official IQ test from the post. What we can say, however, is that what goes around comes around for Reid, and in the case of the so-called “Nuclear Option” for Senate appointees, it’s coming around with a vengeance. Reid changed Senate rules so that presidential confirmations no longer take 60 votes, but only 50+1. That … [Read more...]
The Obama Legacy
President Barack Hussein Obama is famous for stating that his non-accomplishments should be preserved for posterity. During the recent presidential campaign he ranted and raved about Donald Trump and famously stated that Hillary was the most qualified person to ever seek the presidency. He even went so far as to say that if the constituency did not vote for Hillary, he would … [Read more...]
Senate Should Confirm Oklahoma Attorney General to Head EPA
After eight years of Obama appointees trying to grab dominion over every square foot of rural land in Nevada and the West, laying claim to every mud puddle, dictating how clean the air must be and generally trampling states’ rights under a stampede of bureaucrats, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency promises to be an abrupt about-face … [Read more...]
Here’s the Rule: If You Break it You Own It
When the stock market goes up or down, credit and blame accrues to the president. Mostly unfair in a global economy, of course, but that’s how Americans judge it. Call it the “Pottery Barn Rule -- If You Break It, You Own It”. No clearer example of this than the post-Trump election stock market rally. Before the election, Democrats said the robust stock market levels … [Read more...]