Category Archives: Current News

Articles relating to news and events of the day.

Chaos: House Republicans in Complete Disarray, No Easy Fix in Sight – Guy Benson

Source: Chaos: House Republicans in Complete Disarray, No Easy Fix in Sight – Guy Benson Guy makes critical errors in your baseline assumption and that leads his analysis astray. 1. I sense a presumption that a government that isn’t doing something is … Continue reading

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FCC Commissioner: Free Content Might Violate ‘Conduct Standard’ | PJ Media

Internet rules a solution that won’t work for ‘a problem that doesn’t exist.’ Source: FCC Commissioner: Free Content Might Violate ‘Conduct Standard’ | PJ Media Welcome to the FCC regulated internet.  Where free bandwidth is unfair.  Go figure.

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Anatomy of a Failed Liberal State – Stephen Moore

When I grew up in the north suburbs of Chicago in the 1960s and ’70s, Illinois was still a financial and industrial powerhouse. Source: Anatomy of a Failed Liberal State – Stephen Moore I guess I’ll have to be the … Continue reading

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Fox News: Kentucky clerk still won’t issue same-sex marriage licenses

This is going to be important to watch – Kentucky clerk still won’t issue same-sex marriage licenses – Fox News. There is a lot of controversy over the how in the Supreme Court decision.  Couple this with the fact that while the … Continue reading

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Letter to a Friend: ‘Harsh Immigration’ Is Not Why Latinos Hate Republicans – Larry Elder – Page full

Dear Larry: Geez, I cannot fathom the polls that have Donald Trump leading. Either a lot of Republicans are just frustrated or stupid, or both — and they want a bomb-thrower. Or it is pro-Hillary Clinton Democrats voting in those … Continue reading

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How to solve San Francisco’s homeless pooping problem – SFGate

San Francisco is known for its Golden Gate Bridge, world class cuisine, panoply of cultures, striking skyline, frigid fog, and homeless. More specifically, aggressive panhandling and homeless defecating and urinating in public.  Now, there is a solution. Source: How to … Continue reading

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Walmart and guns; Not a big deal

For some bizarre reason, this story has crept to national news: Walmart to stop selling semi-automatic weapons This isn’t a news story.  Nor is Walmart abandoning the AR platform.  It’s not the first time that I’ve seen Walmart not carrying … Continue reading

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Trump migrant proposals could be ‘catastrophic’ to both U.S., Mexico | McClatchy DC

Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s calls to impound the money undocumented workers send home and to jack up fees for Mexicans crossing the border legally each day could prove harmful to the economies of both countries, Mexican experts said Monday. Source: … Continue reading

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The Arrogance of Power: Megyn Kelly’s ‘Good Journalism’ – Breitbart

Was Megyn Kelly’s performance “good journalism”? Here are her questions, evaluated one by one. Source: The Arrogance of Power: Megyn Kelly’s ‘Good Journalism’ – Breitbart This article does a good job of making my (repeated) point that Megyn wasn’t just … Continue reading

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Donald Trump’s Six Stages Of Doom | FiveThirtyEight

The recent polling surge by Donald Trump has launched a thousand stories about Trump’s “unprecedented campaign.” But it’s nothing all that unusual: Similar surges occurred for almost every Republic… Source: Donald Trump’s Six Stages Of Doom | FiveThirtyEight At the … Continue reading

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