One of the most infuriating things about grammar school was when a classmate would stick his fingers in his hears and say, “La la la la la - I can’t hear you!” until the person he didn’t want to hear gave up and went away. Even…

You can’t please everyone, goes the song, and we are being told continuously that the US can’t please anyone. That the entire world now hates us due to —. But in Popularity Contest Why they hate, and like, us, Victor Davis Hanson infoms us that som…

Terrorism is the inevitable result of a belief that might does not make right…….

And promptly inserts that one into his oral orifice, alongside the two already there. In a previous post, I noted how he managed to do a “two step, straight into his own mouth.” Apparently the junior Senator, not content ……

Americans continue to plead.
Our politicians continue to ignore.
And our children continue to pay the price…

What about Dani Countryman?
Portland, OR:
Two suspects charged with aggravated murder in the killing of a Texas teen admitted they c…

You would expect the article, as posted at the LA Times, to be a big call for socialized health care, but, alas, it seems as if they just slapped up the full AP article without injecting their leftist viewpoint

Americans are living longer than ever, b…

I have no opinion whether the flood is real or not. Either way, North Korea is in need of humanitarian assistance….

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Exhibit A in why China has the world’s largest standing army. I’d certainly come to attention for them. So what do you think of that recruitment photo?(Safe for the office or work)Beautiful Chinese women and The Marx Brothers in the same photo. Only …

Time machine inventor Mr. Peabody (left) and his assistant, Sherman.

TORONTO (Toronto Star) - In the United States, the calendar year 1998 ranked as the hottest of them all – until someone checked the math.
After a Toronto skeptic tipped NASA …

I was glad to see this article. Both parties have ignored China long enough. The still oppressive communist nation has used capitalism and MFN status to build up it’s military while continuing it’s human rights abuses and supporting rogue nations…

…The code phrase, said in a breathless whine, of terrorist apologists everywhere, “what has happened to our country in the last six years…”
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Annika Sorenstam gives the finger to this week’s Canadian Open. Why doesn’t it surprise me?…

The DNC would do well to take the advice about people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

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Lives hand in the balance thanks to members of the Church of Global Warming and Pope Al Gore.The screaming left is always going on about the lives that will be lost from the global warming boogeyman, yet I can’t find…

An iconic symbol of the Cold War, the wall divided East and West Berlin for 28 years, from the day construction began on August 13, 1961 until it was dismantled in 1989….

Today’s winner is Hillsborough State Attorney Mark Ober….

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I blogged this not long ago, the tacky book that OJ wrote and the bickering of who gets the money for it if published.  In it I made two observations.

So…let’s suppose OJ does get the book published and the book makes 38 Mi…