Yesterday, Matthew Romney (the second eldest son of Mitt Romney) had to apologize yesterday after telling an audience in Concord, New Hampshire on Thursday that his father would release his tax returns "as soon as President Obama releases his grades and his birth certificate."
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Suppose Santorum Wins Iowa
For the sake of argument, let's suppose Rick Santorum shocks the world and wins the Iowa Caucus next Tuesday.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Bailey of Boston (Or is Michael Lewis Planning to Write Moneyball II?)
Yesterday, the Boston Red Sox acquired closer Andrew Bailey along with outfielder Ryan Sweeney from the Oakland Athletics for outfielder Josh Reddick and minor league prospects Miles Head and Raul Alcantara.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
What's Not in CBS News' Political Gaffes of 2011 List
With 2011 drawing to a close, people are writing up year end lists. I am no exception to this and have just finished up a year end list of my own concerning the worst of President Obama in 2011 which I hope will be up on the main ite either tomorrow or Thursday.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Zany Might Not Be That Bad After All
Romney insists in regards to Gingrich that "zany is not what we need in a President".
By that, one must assume Romney considers as "zany" a willingness to at least consider approaches to issues outside of the box and observing where our time fits with the overall flow of history.
To Romney, it seems how things are going now are, to use vocabulary fitting with his own patterns of speech, "just peachy".
But one supposes there really isn't anyway of ascertaining such since Romney also informed us that we really didn't need an historian either.
And just think, he could have likely gotten by with it if it weren't for those pesky kids.
Thought I would toss that in if candidates are going to start sounding like they are doing voiceovers for Scooby-do episodes from the mid 70's.
by Frederick Meekins
By that, one must assume Romney considers as "zany" a willingness to at least consider approaches to issues outside of the box and observing where our time fits with the overall flow of history.
To Romney, it seems how things are going now are, to use vocabulary fitting with his own patterns of speech, "just peachy".
But one supposes there really isn't anyway of ascertaining such since Romney also informed us that we really didn't need an historian either.
And just think, he could have likely gotten by with it if it weren't for those pesky kids.
Thought I would toss that in if candidates are going to start sounding like they are doing voiceovers for Scooby-do episodes from the mid 70's.
by Frederick Meekins
Monday, December 26, 2011
More Terrorism in Nigeria on Christmas
For the second Christmas in a row, Boko Harum, an Islamic terrorist group, has committed multiple terrorist attacks against churches in Nigeria.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Gorby Calls on Putin to Quit
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has called upon Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to resign.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Friday, December 23, 2011
GOP Debates Then & Now
So let me see if I have this straight. Quin Hillyer is now claiming that Newt Gingrich is arrogant and committing an act of "bad karma" because he challenged Mitt Romney to a one on one debate.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
New Yorker Cartoon Exposes Bias & Not Historical Realities
It has been observed that often a picture is worth a thousand words. By this, it is meant that often a witty image can more quickly convey an idea than a written exposition.
Another truism nearly as classic insists that the only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn anything from history.
A prime example of these working in tandem could be found on the cover of a late 2011 edition of the New Yorker Magazine. Depicted violating the U.S. southern border were migrants adorned not in sombreros but rather in what would be considered traditional Thanksgiving pilgrim garb.
Such doodling, though admittedly humorous, displays a number of questionable assumptions.
For starters, the cartoon assumes that the illegal aliens of today are the equivalent of the Pilgrim settlers.
In addressing this issue, emphasis must be placed upon ILLEGAL.
The migrants coming here today are doing so in violation of the agreed upon governing authorities of the territorial United States.
The English Separatists voyaging here aboard the Mayflower committed no such transgression. In fact, the pioneers making that trek were so eager to see law and order established that among their first acts was to promulgate the Mayflower Compact. They are not to blame if the Indians did not have an as developed sense of property as we have in our own Western tradition or that there was not as much of a need to enforce borders back then as there is today.
The naive will likely respond but, if our Founders were all immigrants, who are we to forbid entrance to those that come here after us?
If that is the case, should those making such a case (especially if they are White) be forced to not only provide shelter to any minority squatter that crawls in through an open window but also cook daily meals and provide laundered sheets for the uninvited house guests? If not, how is amnesty and assorted social welfare benefits going to those that have not earned them any different?
Those fawning all over the border violators of today will gush incessantly how moral and family oriented these blatant criminals are just like the Pilgrim settlers coming here to start a new life. Even the likes of alleged conservatives such as Dr. Dobson of Focus on the Family have at times been duped by this as evidenced by the time he got atop his Colorado high horse and proceeded to castigate Pat Buchanan regarding the syndicated columnist's classic "The Death Of The West".
However, just how moral are these new arrivals when one of their foremost weekend activities is bawdy drunkenness that often results in public urination? It's doubtful many Pilgrims blared music until 3 AM given the solemnity and austerity for which the rigorous Protestants of that era were renowned.
Often leftists like to harp on the decline that befell the American Indians once the historical paths of these people groups intersected with those of the Europeans. Then let's draw on some lessons from that episode as to why the United States of today must curtail the numbers crossing over the nation's frontiers.
If the migrants of today are to be construed through the prism that they are the equivalent of the Pilgrim "foreparnets" (no need to set off radical feminists among fanatic grammarians), it must be pointed out that their famed work ethic wasn't the only thing the early Puritans brought with them. They also brought a number of diseases against which the population already residing here had little immunity.
Sadly, little can be done to prevent the suffering and death from the epidemics that swept across the New World centuries ago. But with the germ theory of disease that has developed since that time, shouldn't we honor those passing in that tragedy by clamping down on our own borders by only granting admittance to those from beyond our borders that adhere to the most rigorous of health standards?
Don't think this is a valid concern? Then why are not only diseases once thought conquered or at least under control such as tuberculosis but even bedbugs as well making a resurgence?
Nation-states exist primarily for the benefit of those already living within the boundaries of a particular delineated territory that have a proper legal basis for being there. Once a culture loses its wherewithal to defend this particular principle, it won't be long until it is swept into the dung heap of history.
by Frederick Meekins
Another truism nearly as classic insists that the only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn anything from history.
A prime example of these working in tandem could be found on the cover of a late 2011 edition of the New Yorker Magazine. Depicted violating the U.S. southern border were migrants adorned not in sombreros but rather in what would be considered traditional Thanksgiving pilgrim garb.
Such doodling, though admittedly humorous, displays a number of questionable assumptions.
For starters, the cartoon assumes that the illegal aliens of today are the equivalent of the Pilgrim settlers.
In addressing this issue, emphasis must be placed upon ILLEGAL.
The migrants coming here today are doing so in violation of the agreed upon governing authorities of the territorial United States.
The English Separatists voyaging here aboard the Mayflower committed no such transgression. In fact, the pioneers making that trek were so eager to see law and order established that among their first acts was to promulgate the Mayflower Compact. They are not to blame if the Indians did not have an as developed sense of property as we have in our own Western tradition or that there was not as much of a need to enforce borders back then as there is today.
The naive will likely respond but, if our Founders were all immigrants, who are we to forbid entrance to those that come here after us?
If that is the case, should those making such a case (especially if they are White) be forced to not only provide shelter to any minority squatter that crawls in through an open window but also cook daily meals and provide laundered sheets for the uninvited house guests? If not, how is amnesty and assorted social welfare benefits going to those that have not earned them any different?
Those fawning all over the border violators of today will gush incessantly how moral and family oriented these blatant criminals are just like the Pilgrim settlers coming here to start a new life. Even the likes of alleged conservatives such as Dr. Dobson of Focus on the Family have at times been duped by this as evidenced by the time he got atop his Colorado high horse and proceeded to castigate Pat Buchanan regarding the syndicated columnist's classic "The Death Of The West".
However, just how moral are these new arrivals when one of their foremost weekend activities is bawdy drunkenness that often results in public urination? It's doubtful many Pilgrims blared music until 3 AM given the solemnity and austerity for which the rigorous Protestants of that era were renowned.
Often leftists like to harp on the decline that befell the American Indians once the historical paths of these people groups intersected with those of the Europeans. Then let's draw on some lessons from that episode as to why the United States of today must curtail the numbers crossing over the nation's frontiers.
If the migrants of today are to be construed through the prism that they are the equivalent of the Pilgrim "foreparnets" (no need to set off radical feminists among fanatic grammarians), it must be pointed out that their famed work ethic wasn't the only thing the early Puritans brought with them. They also brought a number of diseases against which the population already residing here had little immunity.
Sadly, little can be done to prevent the suffering and death from the epidemics that swept across the New World centuries ago. But with the germ theory of disease that has developed since that time, shouldn't we honor those passing in that tragedy by clamping down on our own borders by only granting admittance to those from beyond our borders that adhere to the most rigorous of health standards?
Don't think this is a valid concern? Then why are not only diseases once thought conquered or at least under control such as tuberculosis but even bedbugs as well making a resurgence?
Nation-states exist primarily for the benefit of those already living within the boundaries of a particular delineated territory that have a proper legal basis for being there. Once a culture loses its wherewithal to defend this particular principle, it won't be long until it is swept into the dung heap of history.
by Frederick Meekins
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Ron Paul Still Needs to Seriously Answer Newsletter Questions
On December 15th, Jeff Lord predicted that Ron Paul would have to "seriously answer" for his newsletters as he ascended in the polls in Iowa.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
UN Holds Moment of Silence for Kim Jong-Il
Here's yet another reason why I don't care for the UN.
Today, the UN General Assembly held a moment of silence for Kim Jong-Il.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Today, the UN General Assembly held a moment of silence for Kim Jong-Il.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Mitt Fears Newt
In an interview with the AP while campaigning in New Hampshire today, Mitt Romney said he would not meet Newt Gingrich in a one on one debate "out of respect" for the other candidates in the GOP race.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Abbas Meets with "Terrorist Temptress" in Turkey
Yesterday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas travelled to Turkey where he met with 11 Palestinians who had been freed from Israeli jails as part of the deal which saw the release of Corporal Gilad Schalit back in October.
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To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
No Room for Civil Disobedience in The Military
I know Reid Smith is playing devil's advocate but there is no room for civil disobedience (whether it be from the shoreline of Walden Pond or not) when it comes to Pvc. Bradley Manning or any other member of the U.S. military.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Did Carter Wish Kim Jong-Un "Every Success"?
We know likes of Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega and Robert Mugabe are grieving over the loss of their fellow tyrant Kim Jong-Il.
Well, North Korea's state run news agency is claiming that former President Jimmy Carter expressed his condolences on the passing of Kim Jong-Il and wished his youngest son Kim Jong-Un "every success."
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Well, North Korea's state run news agency is claiming that former President Jimmy Carter expressed his condolences on the passing of Kim Jong-Il and wished his youngest son Kim Jong-Un "every success."
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Congratulations Rachel!!!
My congratulations to Rachel for making RightWing News 50 Best Political Quotes for 2011 list.
I should note that my American Spectator colleague Robert Stacy McCain also made the list at #44.
I should note that my American Spectator colleague Robert Stacy McCain also made the list at #44.
Obama: There He Goes Again
You probably know by now that President Obama told Steve Kroft in an unaired portion of his 60 Minutes interview earlier this month that he had accomplished more in his first two years in office than any other President "with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln."
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
The World's Tyrants Mourn Kim Jong-Il
If a man can be judged by the company he keeps while he lives then I would add that a man can also be judged by those who weep when he dies.
In the case of the recently departed Kim Jong-Il the only people shedding tears for him (apart from the North Koreans forced into publicly outgrieving their neighbors) are the world's tyrants.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
In the case of the recently departed Kim Jong-Il the only people shedding tears for him (apart from the North Koreans forced into publicly outgrieving their neighbors) are the world's tyrants.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Right Wing News releases Third Annual 50 Best Political Quotes of 2011
One of my quotes made #41
“Sexual harassment” is an amorphous word that can be manipulated to infer guilt onto anyone. At some point society has to say enough is enough, this is overkill. Most men are friendly in the workplace and when their friendliness rises to the level of flirting it is all too frequently welcomed and encouraged. The rare incidents where a clueless man does not realize his flirting is not welcome should not be punished by destroying his career. The punishment is overkill and does not fit the behavior. Feminists want to have it both ways which is impossible. They have made the workplace politically correct, imposing laws against sexual harassment, while at the same time permitting flirting in the workplace to continue, letting office romances flourish.
The entire list is here.
“Sexual harassment” is an amorphous word that can be manipulated to infer guilt onto anyone. At some point society has to say enough is enough, this is overkill. Most men are friendly in the workplace and when their friendliness rises to the level of flirting it is all too frequently welcomed and encouraged. The rare incidents where a clueless man does not realize his flirting is not welcome should not be punished by destroying his career. The punishment is overkill and does not fit the behavior. Feminists want to have it both ways which is impossible. They have made the workplace politically correct, imposing laws against sexual harassment, while at the same time permitting flirting in the workplace to continue, letting office romances flourish.
The entire list is here.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Ralph MacDonald, 1944-2011. R.I.P.
Songwriter, producer and percussionist Ralph MacDonald passed away on Sunday of lung cancer. He was 67.
To read the rest of this obituary, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
To read the rest of this obituary, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Thoughts on Chanukah: No Maccabees, No Miracle
In light of the fact that I have just written an article about my twelve favorite Christmas songs, I would be remiss if I didn't write something about Chanukah as it begins tonight at sundown.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
No Lament for Kim Jong-Il
I share John Tabin's sentiments regarding the passing of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011. R.I.P.
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel died yesterday at the age of 75 after a lengthy illness.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog.
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