According to a CNN analyst, Al Qaeda controls more territory in the Middle East than ever before. They just retook the embattled city of Falluja and have consolidated power in sections of Syria. Al Qaeda has control over more territory than it did before the outbreak of the Iraq War in 2003. CNN reports: In […]
Continue reading →Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is in a uniquely qualified position to assess the current state of American government. He presided over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama. His diagnosis? Washington stinks. Both sides of the aisle. The Wall Street Journal has posted an excerpt from […]
Continue reading →Representative Diana DeGette ((Remember her? She’s the “expert” sponsor of a gun control bill who didn’t realize you could reload a magazine. Perhaps she was stoned at the time?)) of Colorado (D) sent out an email recently praising the rollout of marijuana legalization in Colorado and asking for support to deflect federal tampering with the state’s […]
Continue reading →A group of Satanists have unveiled a design for a statue of Baphomet that they hope will soon sit outside the capitol in Oklahoma City. A Ten Commandments monument was placed at the capitol in 2012, and soon after, Satanists wanted their own monument as a token of the equality of all religions. As they themselves […]
Continue reading →Marlize Munoz has been declared brain-dead in Texas. In her living will, she asked not to be kept alive with machines. Her husband and family want to pull the plug. But there’s one catch—Marlize Munoz was fourteen weeks pregnant when she lost consciousness, so Texas law prohibits the family from pulling the plug, as the […]
Continue reading →Pirates and privateers engage in the exact same kinds of actions. In fact, the only difference between a pirate and a privateer is which side you’re on and which side is defining the law. Wikipedia points out the nice difference between the two: “The actual work of a pirate and a privateer is generally the same (raiding and plundering […]
Continue reading →Remember how Obama summed up his first-term successes with the pithy “Bin Laden’s dead and GM is alive”? Well, I think reports of GM’s life have been greatly exaggerated. ((And for that matter, where’s Osama’s body?)) Fiat just finished buying out Chrysler, propped up by billions of your tax dollars. One of the big three, […]
Continue reading →Under the auspices of “preventing accidents,” federal officials are contemplating a requirement to install vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication devices on all new cars. This would apparently allow cars to avoid colliding with one another. So it’s “for your protection” or “for the children” or whatever. I honestly don’t care what their reasoning is. The move toward […]
Continue reading →You’ve never heard of Yitta Schwartz probably. She died almost four years ago at 93, an unknown member of an obscure sect of Jews—the Satmar Hasidic sect. But she was an extremely important person to thousands. In fact, she is the primary reason they exist. Yitta Schwartz had fifteen children, more than two hundred grandchildren, […]
Continue reading →An article in the Telegraph unpacks a Washington Post Religious Map of the United States. And it comes to this conclusion: atheism is the fastest growing “religion” in the United States. I really don’t doubt it. According to the article, data from the US Religious Census of 2010 indicates that Catholicism and Protestantism, though still […]
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