Category: General News

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans was a disaster area. Despite the fact that the dangers of a large hurricane scenario were well-known to everyone from inhabitants to government officials, nothing seemed to go right in the response to the severe flooding that, as predicted, followed landfall. Now residents of Haiti are hurting…

Let me begin by saying that the Houston Chronicle is a good newspaper. It does suffer from the problem of excessive political correctness, however, when it comes to crime reporting. The editors policy decision to not report the race/ethnicity of criminal offenders has for many years been a poor one that does not meet the…

In the U.S. we are bombarded by incorrect and even foolish definitions and examples of something called “hate speech”. Certainly hateful speech exists, as I am about to demonstrate.  Unfortunately too many Americans, lacking anything like a common sense litmus test, really don’t know what it is. Here is an example of actual hate speech…

Original here  h/t Fake Steve Jobs

17-year-old Rifqa Bary should be a household name after her recent attempt to break free of her Muslim parents and live her own life as a Christian. Sadly that dream came to an end today after a judge ruled that she must return to Ohio and go into foster care rather than stay in Florida…

Jane Hamsher says that the Obama administration has come out with the obvious statement that gay rights is a fringe issue. Needless to say, Janie’s not happy about it. Unfortunately, that’s true by definition: Gays make up less than 10% of the population – any initiative focused particularly in their direction is inherently fring-ish. That…

Despite Democrats’ attempts to block him from traveling to Honduras, Jim DeMint went anyway and came back with this report detailing how the Obama administration’s refusal to accept the removal of that country’s former leader, Manuel Zelaya, is utterly wrong. After visiting Tegucigalpa last week and meeting with a cross section of leaders from Honduras’s…

Paul Krugman says United States economy lost 273,000 jobs last month. Of those lost jobs, 29,000 were in state and local education, bringing the total losses in that category over the past five months to 143,000. Obviously this is a mid-to-long-term negative and in general a stupid idea. A country does not get out of…

The Democratic party is in such a state of denial that they surely can’t believe their own spin: The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists – the Taliban and Hamas this morning – in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,” DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse told POLITICO… But…

Just so I’m clear on this point, nothing Barack Obama has done during his 8 months in office is deserving of what is supposed to be the world’s most profound award for service to mankind. Clear enough?