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You’ve probably known someone in your life who was simply full of it, right? A friend of a friend or acquaintance who lied constantly, burning a lot of calories trying to convince people to believe people of something that simply wasn’t so. That is how Democrats are on almost every issue, but there’s one in particular they desperately need to fool people on not only so they can use it as a weapon, but also so they can hide the horrors their political philosophy have committed against the people unfortunate enough to live under their absolute reign. The real “big...

A hotel worker in Mexican tourist hotspot Tulum died after cops pinned her to the ground with a knee on her neck in a case being compared to the harrowing death of George Floyd. Victoria Salazar, a 36-year-old mother of two teenage daughters, died March 27 when four officers arrested her for disorderly conduct, with an autopsy showing her neck had been broken.

The Republican National Committee, together with President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, raised more than $53 million in the first quarter of 2017, according to party and campaign officials, fueled by the same class of online donors who flocked to Mr. Trump last year. Of that, the RNC raised $41.3 million in the first three months of the year—more than double what its Democratic counterpart raised in the quarter after former President Barack Obama was elected in 2008—while Mr. Trump’s campaign raised $3.3 million and a joint committee between the two raised more than $9 million. Frequent fundraising emails bearing...

A comparison video between Secretary Hillary Clinton and FBI Director James Comey contrasting the Clinton Message and Comey investigative outcome of Clinton’s private email use...

Comparisons between the Obama White House and the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter are increasingly being made—and by Democrats. Walter Mondale, Mr. Carter's vice president, told The New Yorker this week that anxious and angry voters in the late 1970s "just turned against us—same as with Obama." As the polls turned against his administration, Mr. Mondale recalled that Mr. Carter "began to lose confidence in his ability to move the public." Democrats on Capitol Hill are now saying this is happening to Mr. Obama. Comparisons between the Obama White House and the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter are increasingly being...

Comparisons between the Obama White House and the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter are increasingly being made—and by Democrats. Walter Mondale, Mr. Carter's vice president, told The New Yorker this week that anxious and angry voters in the late 1970s "just turned against us—same as with Obama." As the polls turned against his administration, Mr. Mondale recalled that Mr. Carter "began to lose confidence in his ability to move the public." Democrats on Capitol Hill are now saying this is happening to Mr. Obama. But within a few months, liberals were already finding fault with his rhetoric. "He's the great...

Comparisons between the Obama White House and the failed presidency of Jimmy Carter are increasingly being made—and by Democrats. Walter Mondale, Mr. Carter's vice president, told The New Yorker this week that anxious and angry voters in the late 1970s "just turned against us—same as with Obama." As the polls turned against his administration, Mr. Mondale recalled that Mr. Carter "began to lose confidence in his ability to move the public." Democrats on Capitol Hill are now saying this is happening to Mr. Obama. Mr. Mondale says it's time for the president "to get rid of those teleprompters and connect"...

A Proper Juxtaposition Share on Other Sites J.J Speelman National Politics, Opinion It was a sunny day in Charlotte, NC. President Obama was just sworn in as the nation’s 44th president and there was a sort of happy energy flowing around the streets of an economically challenged area of the city. As I was driving down the long stretch of Beaties Ford Road, I noticed to my left, a shirt vendor selling Barrack Obama tees and hats. A few parking lots up the road, I saw another vendor selling the same products, along with a few that had Obama’s face...

How will the United States compete in the global economy, went the lament, when our students lag behind the likes of Singapore and Hong Kong in math and science? American fourth-graders ranked 12th in the world on one international math test, and eighth-graders were 14th. Is this further evidence of the failure of the nation's schools? Myth 1: U.S. students rate poorly compared with those in the rest of the world. Answer:This is true only if you cherry-pick the results...Americans are above average when compared with 22 other industrialized nations. In civics, no nation scored significantly higher than the United...

DEMOCRATS: Hold anti-war viewsSOVIET: Theory of communism expects there to be no war DEMOCRATS: A liberal newspaper editor refused to print an article endorsing BushSOVIETS: No free press; all opposition to communism was suppressed DEMOCRATS: Liberal philosophy calls for more government controlSOVIETS: Totalitarian regime where the government controls everything and uses the excuse that it's "for the good of the people" to cover it up DEMOCRATS: View their opponents as a danger--i.e. "If you don't vote for John Kerry you won't have health insurance and the draft will come back".SOVIETS: Distortion of truth that tries to lead one to believe...

NBC News : Tutu Much ! It was difficult to say which was the greater display of arrogance:Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s hypocritical condemnation of the United States – or NBC’s broadcast of this condemnation to the American people – at a time when American men and women are risking their lives overseas. Let me address NBC first. What the network did last night was the moral equivalent of interviewing Joseph Goebbels orTokyo Rose or Axis Sally during World War II : slimy beyond belief ! As to the good Archbishop: his nation (South Africa) has , for many years, interfered...

After the 7/7 London bombings many have raced to renounce the phrase “Islamic terrorism.” A London Anglican priest named Paul Hawkins said in a sermon: “We can name the people who did these things as criminals or terrorists. We must not name them as Muslims.” It may seem odd to deny to the likely perpetrators of the bombings the name that they themselves prize above all others, but such are the politically correct dogmas that prevail in most contemporary public discourse. No one is better versed in those dogmas, or more relentless in her pursuit of any dissenters from them...

ALBANY, N.Y. – Republicans took aim at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday for comparing President Bush to Mad magazine's freckle-faced "What, me worry?" kid, Alfred E. Neuman. A Republican National Committee official said the former first lady was "part of today's angry and adrift Democrat Party," while a spokesman for one of her potential 2006 Senate rivals said she was guilty of "insulting the president." "At a time when President Bush and most elected officials are focused on the security of our nation, Mrs. Clinton seems focused on taking partisan jabs and promoting her presidential campaign," added New York's...

The July issue of Time Magazine, a "Special Issue" as they are selling it, has several segments on President Abraham Lincoln one of which is penned by the Junior Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama. In this issue the articles ruminate on how Lincoln has been understood or misunderstood by the "ages" to which Secretary of War and one time Lincoln rival, Edwin M. Stanton, remanded him upon the President's assassination. There are 5 articles on the Civil War leader, one superfluous one on Lincoln impersonators and Obama's piece, which is termed a "viewpoint". Along with an excellent chart called "Slavery...

Okay, a quick show of hands. How many of you bought that “apology” from Dick Durbin? Which one, you ask? Well, let’s forget about the one where he blamed America for not being smart enough to understand his “nuance.” That was pretty much an insult to everyone’s intelligence. For that matter, so was the real apology, where he was sorry for potentially being “misunderstood” by the great unwashed. (That’s us, in case you’re curious). Now, I’m quite sure that all of you heard about Durbin’s little snit on the Senate floor, where he compared Gitmo to the worst depredations of...

You know things aren’t going well for the Democrats when their main fighting issue is what the room temperature is at Guantanamo Bay’s Motel 6. Among the brilliant ideas of the “We Support the Troops” party is to close down the island-resort prison center affectionately referred to as Gitmo. The people most upset about the “torture” are mainly a bunch of leftwing, bed-wetting socialists who have never supported the war in any form or at any stage, but who we are now supposed to take as objective, credible persons. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Idiot) breathlessly announced the extent of the torture...

Powerful lawmaker Charlie Rangel has provoked the ire of the Anti-Defamation League by likening U.S. military action in Iraq to the Holocaust of World War II. The Iraq war "is the biggest fraud ever committed on the people of this country. ... This is just as bad as the 6 million Jews being killed," the 74-year-old Harlem Democrat insisted during a Monday radio appearance on the WWRL-AM morning show with Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter. "The whole world knew and they were quiet about it because it wasn't their ox being gored." When interviewer Malzberg challenged Rangel's analogy, the congressman...

The International Committee of the Red Cross is granted a privileged status to inspect the conditions of prisoners of war and other detainees in return for confidentiality. But in recent years it has demonstrated a habit of selective media leaks damaging to American purposes. This is the backdrop for two recent incidents that make us think the U.S. should reconsider the ICRC's role. The first concerns a story we heard first from a U.S. source that an ICRC representative visiting America's largest detention facility in Iraq last month had compared the U.S. to Nazi Germany. According to a Defense Department...

Watching the recent proceedings of China's National People's Congress — the country's legislature, if you believe China's constitution, which of course you should not — I got that sinking feeling I always get nowadays when I pay attention to Chinese affairs. Hearing the Communist-party hacks droning on about "safeguarding China's sovereignty and territorial integrity" (read: intimidating Taiwan) and "socialist modernization" (read: get rich by all means, citizen, but never forget who's running this show); watching the drilled "representatives" of the people applauding the wise decisions of the party in unison*... Sinking feeling. The words that go with the sinking feeling...

A recent RAND report showing that California’s per-pupil spending lags behind the national average has become a key weapon for education interest groups. But there are problems with the report that warrant caution. First, RAND uses comparative data collected by the National Education Association (NEA) and the National Center for Education Statistics. RAND acknowledges that data collected by these organizations often omit significant spending items: “Comparisons with other states provide a valuable but limited perspective. States may put large investments into activities that are not counted in the NEA data or other data. For example, California has directed substantial funds...