The Psychological Causes of Political Madness
Crime (and Plagiarism) Pays—in Speakers’ Fees-
“What Difference…Does It Make?!!”
This week, the Knight Foundation, a nonprofit promoting “quality journalism,” forked out a $20,000 speaking fee for disgraced science writer and author Jonah Lehrer to discuss his plagiarism and other journalistic indiscretions.
Dr. Ben Carson
With Barack & Michelle Obama sitting by, taking it manfully: “PC is dangerous,” he says, “it muffles people.
Obama’s “Forward!”
Progressive “Progress” back to the Dark Ages
BenghaziGate: a textbook example of how the progressives work their sort of Orwellian “progress.”
Gobs of GloBaloney: The Something-For-Nothing World of Green Energy
While dodging the issue of his own ten thousand dollar speaking fees this past week, Mike Mann thinks its all a big hugely funded conspiracy….
Political Immune Deficiency Syndrome
The HIV virus which causes AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) does not kill people directly. It destroys their immune systems, allowing a waiting disease that would otherwise be fought off by the body to kill them.
Three in the Head
I carried a gun in New York City for more than a decade — back when there were thousands of murders a year and the Bronx led the nation in killings. On at least four occasions, that gun saved my life, and in a couple of instances, the lives of people who were with me at the time.
Charles Durning, (1923- 2012), R.I.P., Dances Out Doin’ The Sidestep
Before he began his acting career, Durning served with distinction during WWII. He was amongst the first wave of American soldiers to storm Omaha Beach on D-Day. Durning also fought in the Battle of the Bulge in which he was one of only three American soldiers to survive the Malmedy massacre. Durning earned three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star for his service.