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...Let’s look at guns. After a recent spate of violent crime in downtown Baltimore, much of it caught on video, a crime reporter lamented at the over reaction, saying “crime statistics are down” but people just don’t know it. To quote the poet: Something is happening here and you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones. The “something” here is crime. There’s a lot more of it happening than reporters know or write about. Occasionally this information escapes through the politically correct veil: The New York Times is just one of several large papers in the country to...

...Let’s look at guns. After a recent spate of violent crime in downtown Baltimore, much of it caught on video, a crime reporter lamented at the over reaction, saying “crime statistics are down” but people just don’t know it. To quote the poet: Something is happening here and you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones. The “something” here is crime. There’s a lot more of it happening than reporters know or write about. Occasionally this information escapes through the politically correct veil: The New York Times is just one of several large papers in the country to...

For their next exploding cigar, the Democrats chose polygamy... Just for the record, Romney's father was not a polygamist; Romney's grandfather was not a polygamist; his great-grandfather was a polygamist... Meanwhile, back in the female-friendly party, Obama's father was a polygamist; his grandfather was a polygamist; and his great-grandfather was a polygamist who had one more wife (five in total) than Romney's great-grandfather. Obama is the first male in his line not to be a polygamist...

For their next exploding cigar, the Democrats chose polygamy... Just for the record, Romney's father was not a polygamist; Romney's grandfather was not a polygamist; his great-grandfather was a polygamist... Meanwhile, back in the female-friendly party, Obama's father was a polygamist; his grandfather was a polygamist; and his great-grandfather was a polygamist who had one more wife (five in total) than Romney's great-grandfather. Obama is the first male in his line not to be a polygamist...

NEW YORK, NY — Hundreds of members of a militant splinter group called the Rebel WASPS descended upon Wall Street yesterday, signaling the emergence of a powerful new faction in the protests and a formidable opponent to the Occupy movement. Arriving en masse in vintage Saabs and old station wagons that their parents keep as “second home” cars, the WASPS drunkenly stormed lower Manhattan Tuesday, carrying signs with slogans reading “We Are The 0.0001%,” and “Privilege is a Right”. Five of the Rebels were arrested for open container, but were immediately released by orders of Mayor Michael Bloomberg. “The WASPS...

REBEL WASPS SEIZE KENNEDY COMPOUND by Matt Brand Hyannis Port, MA – Backed by private-jet airstrikes and seasoned reinforcements from Nantucket, a team of rebel White Anglo Saxon Protestants stormed the dunes of the historic Kennedy Compound yesterday, running drunkenly across its sprawling lawns, ransacking its barracks and carting off mementos of its 60-year rule of this charming Cape Cod summer town...

Should the American Flag be Banned -- in America? No. This is a lame decision. Teach the kids what the flag means, instead of banning it. Yes. The safety of students comes first. Not sure, but of all things to ban, the American flag would seem the least 'incendiary.' Other (post a comment)

The way TSA is "handling" things, I think they should be referred to as T&A, which, as some of you might know, refers to two parts of the female anatomy. Apologies in advance for my first vanity post - I know it's sophomoric, but the shoe fits...

A Stranger in Our Midst The following essay by Robert Weissberg, Professor of Political Science - Emeritus at the University of Illinois , Urbana , offers a description of what most Americans are feeling about our government, but haven't been able to articulate. Every once in awhile, someone comes along and uses just the right words to describe a situation. This is it. April 29, 2010 - A Stranger in Our Midst, by Robert Weissberg, Professor of Political Science - Emeritus at the University of Illinois , Urbana As the Obama administration enters its second year, I -- and undoubtedly...

For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp...I even have a slogan for the campaign: "Tune in, turn on, drop dead." A fantasy, I suppose. But, beneath the furious roil of the economic crisis, a national conversation has quietly begun about the irrationality of our drug laws. It is going on in state legislatures, like New York's, where the draconian Rockefeller...

By any chance did anyone else see the Drudge headline tonight about a high ranking CIA official (who was appointed by Clinton) being named as a leaker of secret info to the press. I saw it one minute and then it was gone without a trace. Strange...

The Next Nuclear Wave Council of Foreign Affairs | Jon B. Wolfsthal Summary: Renewed anxiety over a nuclear attack has prompted three new books on the threat and how to confront it. On one key point they all agree: the need to ensure that "peaceful" nuclear programs do not serve as a guise for less-than-peaceful intentions. Not since the early days of the Cold War have proliferation experts and the general public been so attuned to the threat of nuclear weapons--and with good reason. There are more than 28,000 nuclear devices in existence today, more and more countries are acquiring...

<p>Please be seated. Thank you.</p> <p>Thank you very much, Mr. Vice President, for your remarks and your leadership. Thank you, Secretary Cohen, for the superb job you have done here at the Pentagon and on this most recent very difficult problem. Thank you, General Shelton, for being the right person at the right time.</p>

Retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, a 1964 U.S. Military Academy graduate, and the academy's Olin Distinguished Professor of National Security Studies, provided an interesting answer to a Social Sciences Cadet at the academy who had asked a question on what the General considered the "endstate" to be in dealing with terrorists. The General has given permission for distribution of his answer. Question from Cadet: Sir, I was hoping you could describe what you think the United States should consider as an "endstate" on the matter of dealing with terrorists? Eradication, containment, or some other option? And what would the United ...

The situation: we were attacked by foreign nationals without warning or declaration of war. To date over 5400 people are missing with monetary losses expected to be in the $50-100 billion range. The attack struck at the center of our national being, the heart of our way of life. In their favor, some of these nationals have reason to hate us, however, most of the world seems to believe that the attack was far in excess of any crimes which the attackers may believe we have committed. We wish to retaliate against any and all persons and/or states that have ...

I know you may think he is evil...because he goes to church regularly, apparently has a happy marriage, delegates well, doesn't rule by polls, and brought home 24 Americans from a very dangerous predicament in China. I know that you think he is savagely anti-environment, whereas Clinton was an environmental activist.....but why then in 8 years of the Clinton-Gore administration did all of those great and sweeping environmental initiatives that Clinton ordered into law never see the light of day until the last weeks of his administration, when there could be no debate about them???? That was the height of ...

Prompted by Dem Dirty Trick, Gore Witness Blows Lid Off Wild Night A Tennessee minister outraged by the 11th hour release by Democrats of Texas Governor George Bush's 1976 DUI arrest record, has come forward with his firsthand account of a wild night in 1971 that featured sex, booze, guns, drugs and presidential candidate Al Gore. In an e-mail to Nashville talk radio host Phil Valentine Thursday night, Pastor Ray Hudson cited an episode where Gore, while a reporter for the city's Tennessean newspaper, was assigned to do a story on the Death Angels, a notorious local motorcyle gang. Pastor ...