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C,mon, you guys! Uncle Joe fought along side of Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama in the 1st Boer War in South Africa!

Cough, cough, bat guano, cough, cough!

Yum!

Fresh “Poop!”

This man is STUPID!

Don’t bend over, Pete!

General Milley frightened me. How can someone this stupid be sitting at the top of the military?

General Milley frightened me. How can someone this stupid be sitting at the top of the military?

Takes “balls” to make the girl’s team!

It’s not just our political leaders who can’t be trusted to represent conservative values.

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LISTEN As a Conservative, I have to confess I see less of a problem in having to deal with Biden, Schumer and Pelosi, than in having to accept that McConnell, McCarthy and Cheney constitute my party’s leadership.

One day, God willing, those Democrats will be gone from the scene. But the fact that our party is being led by three hacks who hate Donald Trump means that even if these three are gone, they will be replaced by like-minded shills for the globalists, and that the likes of Jim Jordan, Devin Nunes, John Kennedy and Josh Hawley, will continue to be voices in the wilderness.

As it happens, it’s not just our political leaders who can’t be trusted to represent conservative values. Consider the important role that pollster Frank Luntz plays in formulating policy for the GOP and providing our puppets with their talking points.

It took Tucker Carlson to confirm what I have long suspected; namely that Luntz is a closet Liberal passing himself off as a Conservative.

It should come as no surprise that that most of his clients are left-wing corporations, including Google, Coca Cola, Walt Disney, Amazon, the Chamber of Commerce, Delta and Facebook. In short, he represents the interests of those who have been punishing the state of Georgia and deplatforming Donald Trump and those who support him.

The GOP is often inviting Luntz to help formulate strategies and talking points. It’s like putting the fox in charge of the farm’s egg production.

What Luntz does for a living is lie and then get a phony “cross section” of the nation that agrees with his lies. That is how he gets away with telling us that Republican voters approve of amnesty for illegal aliens and are in favor of “commonsense” gun control legislation.

Clearly, Mr. Luntz travels in different Republican circles than I do. And, furthermore, my focus group is a lot larger than his.

Finally, the question must be asked if there is any lie that Mr. Luntz won’t tell if there is enough cash on his barrelhead. I ask because he actually pimped on behalf of Perdue Pharmaceutical, the company that turned millions of Americans into drug addicts by pushing Oxycontin until it was coming out of our ears and the number of deaths attributable to overdosing shot through the roof.

As if all that isn’t bad enough, someone should tell Mr. Luntz that when it comes to toupees, you should always go top of the line. It’s the one time you don’t want to go shopping in the trunk of a 2007 Saab.

I never put much stock in UFOs, mainly because they only seem to be sighted by guys named Rufus in the hinterlands who happened to be out late at night looking for roadkill.

I figured if you had just flown a kazillion miles through space, it wouldn’t be to make contact with folks who considered truck-flattened raccoon the epitome of fine dining.

But suddenly, we’re getting reported sightings from Navy pilots and radar operators. They’re all pretty consistent about the unbelievable speeds and maneuvers of the vehicles they’re witnessing.

My question these days is why is it only our pilots and our radar operators who are filing reports? Nothing odd happening in the skies over France, Poland, Russia, China, Australia?

Perhaps we managed to pique their curiosity. I can see where they might want to try to figure out why a nation that could have elected Donald Trump decided to elect Joe Biden? I can understand their curiosity especially if they hadn’t heard about the 100 million phony ballots and the rigged Dominion machines.

The Democrats keep making references to the return of Jim Crow, while, predictably, it is they who are re-introducing the vile practice.

The latest example of it is taking place in New York City where the newly installed Chief Medical Officer, a black woman named Michelle Morse, is promoting race-based medical care, mandating preferential treatment for blacks and Latinos.

Can you imagine the outrage if a white woman pointed out that between the burning and the looting, white people have suffered enough this past year, and would therefore be given preferential medical attention in recompence?

Has anyone else noticed that Mariska Hargitay of “Law & Order” looks exactly like Caitlyn Jenner?

Nobody really expects the propaganda media to be even-handed when it comes to reporting the news, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t mention their duplicity when it’s particularly blatant.

When President Trump banned flights from China, the media pack attacked him as a racist, a bigot and a xenophobe. But not a peep do we hear when Joe Biden bans flights from India, home to 1.2 billion people of color.

I never tuned in when it was still on the schedule, but I have become addicted to the re-runs of “The Big Bang Theory.”

While watching an episode the other evening, I found myself thinking about other sit coms I have enjoyed; specifically, about my favorite characters and the actors who brought them alive.

Near the top of the list was Carl Reiner, who played a multitude of roles on the old Sid Caesar variety shows.

Others on the list would be Phil Silvers as Sgt. Bilko on “You’ll Never Get Rich;” Steve Landesberg as Det. Sgt. Arthur Dietrich on “Barney Miller;” Valerie Harper as “Rhoda Morgenstern on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show;” Danny De Vito as Louie De Palma on “Taxi;” Christopher Lloyd as Rev. Jim Ignatowski on “Taxi;” Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane on “Cheers;” David Hyde Pierce as Nils Crane on “Frasier;” Harriet Sansom Harris as Bebe Glazer on “Frasier;” Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper on “The Big Bang Theory;” Mayim Blalik as Amy Farrah Fowler on “The Big Bang Theory;” and Kathy Cuoco as Penny on “The Big Bang Theory.”

If some of your favorites are missing, it’s very likely it’s because I never tuned in to such fan favorites as “Friends,” “Sex and the City” or “Ally McBeal.”

But while we’re in the neighborhood, I should mention that my three least favorite actors/characters in the history of sit coms were Jeff Conaway as Bobby Wheeler on “Taxi,” Anthony LaPaglia as Simon Moon on “Frasier” and, worst of all, Melissa Rauch as Bernadette Rostenkowski, whose nose is where punchlines went to die.

Apparently, she claims she was doing her mother’s nasal delivery as the character. Too bad she wasn’t channeling her father. I have barely been able to understand two consecutive words coming out of her mouth. Too bad the producers didn’t think to provide subtitles when she was speaking.

It’s bad enough that we are going to have to depend on China to provide our electric cars with lithium batteries. But if they go ahead and invade Taiwan, they will pretty much control the world’s microchip supply.

Isn’t it high time we started manufacturing the necessities of life in the 21st century?

I’m not exactly Nostradamus, but I feel I’m on solid ground when I predict that archaeologists in the 34th century will be exchanging fist bumps and high-fives after uncovering not only the bones of Jimmy Hoffa, but the long-rumored existence of the Durham Report.

Of all the terrible consequences of the Wuhan virus, one of the worst was having Anthony Fauci introduced into our daily lives.

To look at him, you’d think he worked as a mascot for one of the baseball teams. But when he strode to the microphone and saw the red eye of the TV camera pointed in his direction, he suddenly felt himself 10-feet tall and the master of all he surveyed.

He quickly became the media’s darling because they quickly realized that he opposed the President. For the past four years, whether it was someone as repulsive as James Comey, Anthony Scaramucci, James Mattis, Michael Cohen, Rex Tillerson, Michael Avenatti or John Bolton, all a person had to do was fall out of favor with the President and he assumed heroic stature on the Left.

It was the old adage about any friend of my friend is a friend, but the enemy of my enemy is a better friend.

One thing I can say for Fauci is that he didn’t make it easy for his supporters. One day, he was pooh-poohing the virus, the next day he was comparing it to the Black Plague and predicting the deaths of millions of Americans. One day, he was admitting that masks were useless, the next day he was suggesting that people who didn’t wear them should be shot down like rabid dogs in the street.

One day, he was seeing the end of the pandemic on the horizon, the next he was warning it could go on indefinitely and nobody should ever again even think about shaking hands. And the day after that, he gave his blessing to people having sex with strangers they’d meet via a dating app, saying “It’s okay if your are willing to take a risk – and you know, everybody has their own tolerance for risks.”

After first dismissing the risk of contagion from crowds, he became somewhat fanatical when it came to social distancing. Well, maybe not so much fanatical as situational. By now, I suspect most of us saw the little fellow seated between a man and a woman at a Washington Nationals baseball game earlier this year. He was not wearing a mask.

As Selwyn Duke pointed out in an article, “The Many Masks of Anthony Fauci,” in The New American, the man has been sold to us as the world’s foremost authority on viruses, as you might expect of the man who heads up the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, but “he is neither an immunologist, epidemiologist nor virologist.”

He has a degree in internal medicine. But what he really is when you get right down to it is a career bureaucrat. He has had his gig at the NIAID since 1968! One can only imagine how many butts he has kissed in the past 52 years to have hung on that long.

One thing I have come to understand is that when “experts” tell us something that is based on models, we should turn a blind eye and two deaf ears to them. I first became aware of their shortcomings when Al Gore used to refer to models showing that within 10 years rising oceans would turn Topeka, Kansas, into a coastal community.

Next, we heard that models proved that the temperatures would rise high enough to bake us alive.

Then along came Fauci insisting that his models proved that Covid-related deaths in the U.S. would reach millions. But what he hasn’t mentioned is the fact that even the Center for Disease Control admits that only about 6% of Covid fatalities can be attributed to the disease alone; that in 94% of the cases, it merely contributed to the deaths of people suffering from cancer, heart disease, hepatitis, Alzheimer’s and pneumonia.

Fauci showed his true cowardly colors when he was facing a congressional committee in late July and Rep. Jim Jordan asked him if he thought that the government should crack down on Black Lives Matter protests “similar to how the government has banned churches from congregating or businesses from operating.”

After first admitting that crowds of people increased the chances of spreading the disease, Fauci refrained from offering an opinion.

Jordan, who is one of the few members of the House who actually uses committee hearings to solicit facts and not just to get his face on TV, followed up by saying: “Well, you make all kinds of recommendations. You make comments on dating, on baseball, on everything you can imagine. I’m just asking if we should limit the protests.”

“I think,” said our fearless leader, “that I would leave that to people who have more of a position to do that.”

Even if you can decipher what it means to have more of a position to voice an opinion means, it gives us a pretty good idea how a Washington bureaucrat maintains his job through 10 different administrations.

Dr. Knut Wittkowski, an actual expert in the field, who early on warned that lockdowns were a bad idea, claiming that herd immunity and the virus’s eradication could have been achieved within weeks, was asked to explain why he and Fauci, who pushed for a nation-wide lockdown, differed so radically on the issue.

Wittkowski replied: “Well, I’m not paid by the government, so I’m entitled to actually do science.”

If I recall correctly, President Trump officially labeled Antifa a terrorist organization a couple of months ago. So how is it that I don’t see the Justice Department dropping the boom on the thugs?

Have we come to the point where being dubbed terrorists only serves as a recruitment tool?

Speaking of the urban rabble, can it possibly just be a coincidence that every “unarmed black man” (meaning no gun, but very likely a knife, an axe or a club) who is shot by a cop has a rap sheet as long as your arm?

Considering how systemically racist Black Lives Matter and the Obamas insist law enforcement is, branding every police department in the nation with a scarlet R, wouldn’t you think that now and then the cops would gun down some black lawyers, a handful of black doctors, a few black pharmacists and a couple of uppity black accountants?

It’s truly a mystery the way the bigots in blue never seem to shoot a black person who actually has a job.

I’m glad that President Trump found the time in his busy schedule to fire Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.

Normally, it’s not a position to which I pay that much attention. But Esper is the stooge for the defense industry, the man who warned the President about pulling troops out of Afghanistan “too quickly.”

Any bonehead who’d use the words “too quickly” to describe our long-overdue withdrawal from 20 year-long nightmare is someone I wouldn’t trust to empty the wastebaskets at the Pentagon. But then, I don’t trust anyone at the Pentagon, which merely serves as a way station for those moving from the military to cushy high-paying jobs as lobbyists for outfits like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.

My distrust went up a few notches after I heard that the military brass had been lying to President Trump about the number of troops we actually have stationed in Syria.

Clearly, Esper is one of those hawks who longs for the good old days when we had Hundred Year Wars that actually lasted 116 years.

Sometimes, especially during the days when a few studios ran the industry, you would see terrible actresses in movies and you could easily guess they had slept with a mogul or one of the studio’s top-line directors. It was tawdry, but at least it made sense.

But when you see guys like Casey Stegall, who sounds as if he’s addressing four-year-olds, and Griff Jenkins, who seems to be suffering from a case of terminal constipation, reporting the news at Fox, you can’t help wondering who’s doing the hiring at the network.

Over at MSNBC, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jon Meachem, was interviewed after Joe Biden delivered his hopefully-premature acceptance speech. Meachem gave the speech extremely high marks and, for good measure, threw in a comparison to Jefferson.

When it turned out he helped write the speech, it shocked some people. I, however, thought it established a welcome precedent.

So if any of you want to know how great my articles are, don’t be shy. Just ask me.

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If this past year has taught us anything, it’s that even Americans can be so easily manipulated, they will quickly surrender their freedom and liberties, including those enshrined in the Constitution.

All that was required was that those with political authority scared us into acquiescence by pretending that a virus that was far less lethal than the seasonal flu marked the return of the Black Plague.

The people who died were the old and those with decrepit immune systems. To put it crudely, it thinned the herd. But, of course, to increase our terror and dependence, anyone who was suffering from pneumonia, the flu, heart disease, cancer or diabetes, but was also found to test positive for Covid, had his or her death attributed to the virus.

That was how they managed to run up the death toll to over half a million in the U.S. On its own, it’s doubtful if the Wuhan virus killed even a tenth of them.

But if ever a treatment was worse than the disease, this was it. It was when it came to suicides, increased drug addiction and intoxication, domestic violence and childhood depression, that the numbers soared into the stratosphere.

When you also consider the number of businesses that went bust and the number of people suddenly unemployed, you begin to get a true idea of the cost to the nation.

And all along, the mayors and governors were playing us. They proved they didn’t take the threat seriously every time we caught them dining out, having their hair done and getting on a plane to take a vacation. We even saw Dr. Fauci, who should be famous for saying “I’m not really a doctor, I only play one on TV,” at a baseball game, sitting knee-to-knee between two people and not wearing his mask.

Even today, after we’ve been told repeatedly that we all need to get vaccinated and most people have been, Biden and his stooges are telling us we still must don our masks and maintain our distance.

In the meantime, the schools, for the most part, are still shut down, as are the churches and synagogues. Baseball games are taking place, but with attendance capped at about 25% capacity.

It is bewildering trying to figure out what messages Biden is sending us. He made a big deal of getting his two shots, but five months later, he’s still sporting the mask, even when he’s taking part in a ZOOM call. And both he and Kamala Harris are still pretending that social distancing is required on all occasions.

As an American, I found it embarrassing that at his speech to the joint session of Congress, only a fraction of the 535 members were able to attend, even though all of them have been vaccinated. When the dumb affair was over, and Biden had uttered his final trillion-dollar platitude, it was ludicrous seeing him exchanging fist and elbow bumps with Pelosi, Harris and the various politicians in attendance who wanted to get a second of facetime on TV, even if we only got to see half their face.

Which brings us to the one hour, seven minute, address itself.

It was, as expected, boring in the extreme. People, other than I, seemed surprised that Biden could stand and speak that long. I have come to believe that reports of his physical and mental frailty have been widely over-exaggerated.

Maybe because I have had personal experience with people suffering from dementia, I feel safe in assuring you that he may not be sound as a dollar, but he’s as sound as 87 cents.

And with Kamala in the wings, let’s hope he stays that way.

It was a given that he was going to claim that corporations and the very wealthy would pick up the tab for his seven trillion-dollar ($7,000,000,000,000) wish list. But that is bullshit. If you confiscated every last dime from America’s 600-odd billionaires, you’d only come up with about four trillion dollars.

And although corporations make for a handy punching bag, especially now that they’ve all become so damn woke, people never seem to grasp what happens when you increase corporate taxes. If they gave it even a moment’s thought, they would realize that four things occur with the predictability of the sun’s rising in the east.

First, they fire employees.

Next, they cut dividends to all those widows and pensioners who own their stock.

Then they raise the price on their merchandise.

And, finally, if they determine that the tax bite is too severe, they move their factories to other countries, often to China.

When Biden wasn’t promising that his administration was going to spend all that additional revenue providing us with everything we’d need from the cradle to the grave in exchange for depriving us of our freedoms, he reminded us how, as V.P., he had chased Osama bin Laden to the gates of Hell and then ushered him inside. It was a strange boast to make, for, as Bret Baier, pointed out, Joe Biden had opposed the mission. It was probably the one time in eight years that Biden had removed his lips from Obama’s posterior long enough to voice an objection. And, of course, it was the one time that Obama did something right.

In his rebuttal, Tim Scott did himself and the Republicans proud. It helped that because of the Covid restrictions, there was far less pomp and circumstances surrounding the President’s address, so the contrast in venues wasn’t so great. But at least Sen. Scott didn’t appear to be speaking from a closet, so he managed to avoid any of the earlier mishaps by others pressed into rebutting such an address. Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal probably still wake up in a cold sweat, recalling their own misadventures.

But I didn’t intend to dismiss Scott with a left-handed compliment.

He was very effective in relating his own personal story, crediting his mother and his Christian faith for his own success.

Most importantly of all, he made me look good for having recently suggested that the GOP start replacing Mitch McConnell with Scott as the spokesman for the Senate Republicans.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is wasting no time reminding us of Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch as he calls for the Justice Department to begin investigating the nation’s police departments for signs of all that systemic racism we keep hearing about.

That’s bad enough, but if I squint a little bit, I could swear I was looking at Anthony Fauci. Where the heck do they find these pompous pipsqueaks?

How is it that we haven’t heard a word from the black girl whose life was saved when Ohio police officer Nicholas Reardon shot the knife-wielding Ma'Khia Bryant? You would assume that at least Fox would have her on to voice her appreciation to her benefactor, who is currently on suspension for doing his duty.

And how is it that his name has been released, but I am having to trust the rumor that the creep who shot and killed an unarmed woman named Ashli Babbitt on January 6th was a Brazilian immigrant/BLM militant/white-hating member of the Capitol police force named David Bailey?

And how is it that unnamed authorities have declared that his killing of Ms. Babbitt was justified when she was unarmed and was on the other side of a thick Senate chamber door, meaning the officer’s life was no more in danger than my own at the time.

Other lowlights of Biden’s address came when he identified white supremacy as the greatest terrorist threat facing America. I’d agree if he was referring to the triumvirate of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and himself.

I know he was trying to wring a tear or two out of us when he reported visiting George Floyd’s small daughter, six-year-old Gianna, “a mere tyke” in his words, and stooping to look her in the eye as she said “My daddy changed the world.”

I know it’s not the image he meant to convey, but anyone who knows his history couldn’t help chuckling, knowing that creepy Uncle Joe couldn’t get that close to a tyke without sniffing her hair.

The late novelist, Terry Pratchett, got a laugh out of me when he said “There is a rumor going around that I have found God. I think that is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”

Mr. Patchett died in 2015, so at least by now he will have had time to find God and perhaps even his keys.

I always wear my seatbelt even after I’ve left my car! For the good of the galaxy!

...always wear your seatbelt...even after getting out of your car! For the good of the Galaxy!

The old William Wallace Treatment: Draw, quarter, fingers & toes, then his nose. Mount the parts in a cage for all the public to see. (We’ll show you!) After two weeks: Place parts in a deciduous tree for birds to eat! (Yum!)

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LISTEN I believe that Derek Chauvin was guilty of manslaughter, but not murder. The man is obviously a bully, but if he had wanted to kill George Floyd, it wouldn’t have taken him nearly nine minutes to do it.

I suspect he kept his knee on Floyd’s neck because he didn’t like his attitude. After all, lying face down with his hands cuffed behind him, Floyd wasn’t going anywhere. On the other hand, there was no way for the cop to know that the perp had a huge amount of fentanyl and God knows what other crap in his system.

Chauvin probably should not have been trusted with a badge and a gun. But, perhaps, he was pent up with frustration, having seen thousands of people who looked like smaller versions of George Floyd getting away with burning, looting and killing, for months on end. Maybe he was thinking “They won’t let me shoot these people, won’t even let me arrest them, so I’ll pin this punk with my knee. Hell, it won’t kill him, and I’ll feel a little better.”

The verdict will obviously be appealed. How could it not be when even the trial judge suggested that Rep. Maxine Waters, with her calls for violence if the verdict went the wrong way, provided grounds?

But it wasn’t just the fatheaded congresswoman. The fact that Minneapolis had suffered the most damage because of the initial incident would have indicated a change of venue was appropriate. But the trial wasn’t moved. Not even when, as the jury was being empaneled, the city decided it was a good time to announce they were so convinced Chauvin had committed murder, they were writing a check to his lucky survivors for $27 million.

Until the last evening, the jury was never sequestered, so they were only too aware of the intimidating mob surrounding the courthouse, just waiting for an excuse to torch the city again. I’m sure they were also aware that the usual mobs were gathering in cities across the nation, just waiting for the slightest excuse to turn the country into one big tinderbox.

Even if, like me, the jurors thought Chauvin was only guilty of manslaughter, they weren’t taking any chances. They found him guilty of two counts of murder, although how there could be two counts with only one victim, is beyond me.

If they’d had to save their city and themselves from the predictable repercussions of letting the defendant off on any of the charges, I suspect they would have found him guilty of kidnapping the Lindbergh baby and assassinating William McKinley.

Perhaps the single most nauseating thing to come out of all this has been the transfiguration of George Floyd. Here’s a man who had spent his entire life robbing and terrorizing innocent people, once holding a loaded gun against the abdomen of a pregnant woman because he was sure she had drugs or money hidden in her home.

This is the creep about whom Nancy Pelosi eulogized “Thank you, George Floyd, for sacrificing your life for justice. Your name will always be synonymous with justice.”

The Marine who crawls out of his foxhole to rescue a fallen comrade might be sacrificing his life. George Floyd never sacrificed anything for anybody. He wasn’t Jesus Christ, although Pelosi suggested as much, and even though his fellow cretins have painted pictures of him with his head encircled with a halo. You don’t become a saint for trying to pass a bogus twenty.

Claiming that George Floyd’s name will be synonymous with justice is like saying Benedict Arnold’s name will forever be synonymous with patriotism.

After the House Speaker gave her benediction, we all got to hear Joe Biden go on and on about this being a racist country, even though a jury had just found a white cop guilty of killing a black man, even a black man who deserved killing. It was very disheartening. In fact, if you closed your eyes, you could have sworn you were listening to Barack Obama. Speaking of the worst president in American history, it’s not hyperbole to state that between them, Barack Obama and Lyndon Johnson have done much more to keep black men down than all those white supremacist boogeymen the Left keeps yammering about.

Johnson did his part by driving black men out of their homes by declaring that if there was a husband/father in the house, the women and children would not receive welfare checks. It doesn’t say much for black men that they quickly (gratefully?) left home and allowed the American taxpayer to carry the burden of supporting their families.

But Johnson knew that a dependent black community would provide a dependable bloc of voters.

For his part, almost from the day he took office, Obama was siding with blacks, no matter how deplorable their actions, and bad-mouthing the police.

A fair-minded person would have to acknowledge that the first black president did more to create rancor between the two races than anyone in history. Worse yet, he shamelessly continues to do it.

A bit of political trivia. During his 1991 confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Clarence Thomas declared that he was the victim of a public lynching. The chairman of that lynching party was none other than Sen. Joe Biden (D, DE).

In the aftermath of another lynching, this one passed off as a criminal trial, it seems to me that it might have been a good thing for all concerned if Derek Chauvin had died mysteriously while in custody, like Jeffrey Epstein. That holds true even for Chauvin, an ex-cop, if he’s sent to prison anywhere but perhaps Devil’s Island.

We are quickly catching on to the fact that Democrats will say anything if they believe they can profit politically from a lie. So it was that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand felt she could get away with declaring that everything was infrastructure so long as her party was able to shove it into the so-called Infrastructure bill.

And once the bill was passed along strictly party lines, with even the likes of Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski holding fast, we heard Joe Biden insist it was a piece of bi-partisan legislation.

In the president’s case, it’s possible that he, who is easily confused, thinks that if he and his wife Jill Bi-den agree about something that makes it bi-partisan.

When pollsters are asked how many unarmed blacks they believe are killed in a year by cops, the numbers range from several hundred to as high as 10,000. Last year, they will be surprised to learn there were 15. And in just about every case, the victim was resisting legal instructions. On top of that, “unarmed” can be a misleading word when the resistor is someone as huge as Eric Garner (6'4"/235 pounds), Rodney King (6'3"/230 pounds), Michael Brown (6'4"/292 pounds) or George Floyd (6'6"/233 pounds), and, as often as not, on drugs, and it takes several officers to subdue him.

When someone is 6'4" and weighs 292, don’t believe anyone who tells you he’s unarmed. Would you describe a gorilla as unarmed just because it’s not wielding a gun?

So, on the one hand, you have 15 unarmed people dying at the hands of the police, and Democrats and the media insist that proves we have systemic racism and bigoted cops out to commit genocide. But when the same number of black people, including children, are killed by other blacks over a typical weekend in Chicago, all you hear are crickets.

If at this late date, anyone needed to be reminded of the two-faced way that the media reports the news, they need only compare how treporters greeted Donald Trump’s announcement of a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, which would have taken place next month if he were still president, and the way they gushed over Biden’s decision to remove the troops in September.

Trump was crucified for accepting defeat, while Biden is hailed as a hard-nosed realist who has courageously pulled the plug on a seemingly endless war.

If I know the Nobel Prize committee, and I’m afraid I do, expect Biden to receive the Peace Prize next year.

And when he takes the stage in Stockholm, don’t be too surprised if he winds up thanking the members of the Motion Pictures Academy of Arts and Science for his Oscar.

...what kind of migrating birds were visiting?