Mary Landrieu just lost her Senate seat. Big time. She was the last of the white Democrats in the Deep South. And white Democrats are complaining that this is a racial issue. But that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Let’s just look at some demographics: Of all the people who reported as Black […]
Continue reading →That’s comforting. Chris Rock, the famous comedian, has given white America a small pat on the back. We’re apparently not as racist as we used to be, and this is not due to black progress he says, but white progress: So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that […]
Continue reading →24/7 Wall Street just released its report on the best and worst-run states in the US. They determined this, as you would imagine, based mostly on economics. Their methodology, in a nutshell: To determine the best- and worst-run states, 24/7 Wall St. collected data in three major categories: financial position, economic outcomes, and social outcomes. […]
Continue reading →The fight between Congress and the President is heating up. Ranging from mild political correctives to insults of almost no political import, Republicans in Congress are cooking up a battle plan for fighting Obama: Late Tuesday, Rep. Paul C. Broun (R-Ga.) called for Boehner to not invite Obama to deliver the State of the Union […]
Continue reading →Another grand jury decided not to indict a police officer in the death of an unarmed black man. This time, there was actually video evidence of what went down, and it isn’t pretty. Eric Garner, an asthmatic black man harassed by too many police for selling single cigarettes, was put in a chokehold for “resisting […]
Continue reading →We’re not number one anymore. The International Monetary Fund just released this year’s economic production numbers and China has officially overtaken the US as the world’s largest economy: The International Monetary Fund recently released the latest numbers for the world economy. And when you measure national economic output in “real” terms of goods and services, China will […]
Continue reading →I’m still laughing. And crying. Apparently a homosexual couple married in Iowa is being refused a same-sex divorce in Missouri. And they are bringing the case to the MO Supreme Court. Classic: The men were married in Iowa two years ago and tried to divorce in St. Louis County, but were told the court didn’t […]
Continue reading →In a recent article by the humorously named Scientific American, Joshua Krisch delivered a dire warning on what could happen to “science” if Congress should “shut down” the government again. Apparently, the two weeks of civil government shutdown in 2013 had dire and lasting effects on the scientific community. Lab rats died (from euthanasia to […]
Continue reading →The total US debt has just jumped over the $18 trillion mark for the first time ever. With all of the other major problems we are facing as a country, this one might be the crow bar that finally shatters the camel’s back: It also means that total US debt to nominal GDP as of […]
Continue reading →The American Atheists organization is trying to convert Christians this holiday season with an Anti-Christian Christmas billboard campaign: The giant advertising hoardings in the Tennessee cities of Memphis, Nashville, St. Louis and Fort Smith, Arkansas show a mischievous-looking young girl writing her letter to Father Christmas: “Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas is to […]
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