Saturday, December 31, 2022

Van Morrison - Celtic New Year

On the surface, this shimmering Van Morrison song, "Celtic New Year," is a kinda--sorta Gaelic alternative New Year's Eve song.

But if you listen closely to the lyrics, the Belfast Cowboy is crooning about what we now call Halloween, the end of the old year and the beginning of a new one in accordance with the Celtic religion. Samhain is what they called it. At that time the wall between our world and the mystic world of spirits is the thinnest. 

The references to Indian summer and bonfires are the giveaway, the mention of Bourbon Street notwithstanding.

Happy New Year all the same!


Biden hasn't said a word as Americans grapple with nationwide shortage of kids' meds, antibiotics

If Brandon, or the people who pull his strings, could find a way to blame Donald J. Trump for the medicine shortage, he'd be talking about it.

 

Friday, December 30, 2022

If you think Disney in the happiest place on earth, I feel sorry for you...

It turns out that Disney properties are not the happiest place in the world.

Kat Timpf reviews the misery.


Thursday, December 29, 2022

Virginia school under fire for withholding awards in name of 'equity'

America used to be a place where achievement wasn't only recognized but also celeberated. That was before the woke took over.


Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Russian sausage tycoon and war critic dies in fall in India

As Slade Cantrell, the villain portrayed by Joe Flaherty in the SCTV parody serial "Six Gun Justice" used to say, these Russian war critics seem to die "real accidental like."

Russian sausage tycoon, Pavel Antov, died in a fall from a window at an Indian hotel, two days after a friend died during the same trip.

More from the BBC

They were visiting the eastern state of Odisha and the millionaire, who was also a local politician, had just celebrated his birthday at the hotel. 

Antov was a well known figure in the city of Vladimir, east of Moscow. 

Last summer he denied criticising Russia's war in Ukraine after a message appeared on his WhatsApp account. 

The millionaire's death is the latest in a series of unexplained deaths involving Russian tycoons since the start of the Russian invasion, many of whom have openly criticised the war.

Monday, December 26, 2022

Tucker Carlson: 2022 was the year of lying

From Joe Biden, to Sam Bankman-Fried, to inflation, this year was one for lying.


In Loving Memory of Brian Stelter's Career - The Ultimate Mark Dice Impersonation Compilation!

Mark Dice's tribute to CNN hack Brian Stelter starts off with a bang with Stelter admitting he is afraid of free speech on Twitter.


Carol of the Bells: Happy Holidays from all of us at NATO in Latvia

Here is some Christmas cheer brought to you from NATO soldiers singing in forest in Latvia. 

Merry Christmas, or as it's said in Latvia, Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus.

Singing here are NATO allies from Denmark, Latvia, Spain and the United States.


Hat tip to Fox Chicago's Flannery Fired Up for this clip.

Saturday, December 24, 2022

The Pogues: Fairytale of New York with Kirsty MacColl

Merry Christmas my friends! 

Here's an epic song about a less than happy Christmas. The Pogues, with special guest Kirsty MacColl, bring us "Fairytale of New York."

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Friday, December 23, 2022

But where was the New York Times before the election? MSNBC op-ed blasts local media for missing incoming GOP congressman's alleged fabulism

Let me get this bit out of the way before I attack, once again, the media. 

Republican George Santos is apparently a serial liar about himself. In an upset, Santos was elected to Congress in New York's 3rd congressional district, an area that covers parts of Queens and Long Island. According to a New York Times report, Santos lied about his career and his education. And while he ran as an openly gay man, Santos, according to the Daily Beast, was married to a woman. They divorced in 2019. I'm calling for Santos to not take his seat in Congress or quickly resign after being sworn in. Hey, I'm not familiar with the protocol. Our party needs to hold ourselves to a higher standard than the Democrats. 

Meanwhile, a comedian, attorney, and Sirius XM host, Dean Obeidallah, in a seemingly powerful MSNBC op-ed, blames the current status of local media for missing Santos fish story falling through the cracks.

But Santos slipping through an election with such little scrutiny is also a tale of the gutting of local newsrooms. The result is fewer reporters to investigate candidates in their own backyard. When President Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which significantly raised caps on the number of local newspapers and television stations a single corporation could own, the era of corporate media consolidation took hold. Local news outlets, be they urban or rural, lost resources and laid off reporters. And that was before Covid.

Well, local newspapers might attract more readers if they weren't infected by wokeness and pushing narratives, such as climate change, that the majority of Americans care little about. As former Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass regularly points out in his podcast, his former employer and the Chicago Sun-Times might attract more readers if it covered a topic many more people care about--crime--in a manner that CWB Chicago does.

What Obeidallah didn't mention in his Santos op-ed is that the New York Times didn't report on Santos reputed lies until after his election win. 

The New York Times is based where?

But Obeidallah can't bring himself to condemn the holy book of the left, the New York Times. He's part of the problem. 

Thursday, December 22, 2022

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Kinzinger sells his Channahon home, what's next? CNN? MSNBC?

Where will Adam Kinzinger live now? Despite what the Chicago Tribune says, I believe Kinzinger is headed out of state--probably so he can work as a contributor for CNN or MSNBC.

Fron the Chicago Tribune by way of the Pantagraph:

As U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger prepares to leave Congress after 12 years, just days after casting a historic committee vote recommending criminal charges against former President Donald Trump, the Republican politician from Illinois finds himself literally a man without a home.
Shunned by Republican organizations nationally and in his home state, his district evaporated by Democrats to make him politically unelectable, Kinzinger has sold his family’s Channahon home, though he said he’s inclined to stay in Illinois.
But ask the 44-year-old once-rising star in the GOP about what the future holds for himself and his view of the country, it yields more questions than answers.
Instead Kinzinger — who along with U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming was the most outspoken House GOP critic of Trumpian Republicanism — said he intends to stay involved in politics “but I think definitely there needs to be a little bit of a moment and a break and a reset right now.”

Mark Dice: Schiff For Brains Has Some Explaining To Do!

US Rep Adam Schiff (D-CA), a conspiracy nut, will find himself in the minority soon. Mark Dice has more.


Tuesday, December 20, 2022

FBI conducted 'psychological operation' on Twitter over Hunter Biden: Devine

One of the few honest journalists working today is the New York Post's Miranda Devine. Here she is discussing election interference conducted by the FBI.

John Stossel: DC & Marvel Comic Books Have Gone Woke

And not shockingly, it is hurting sales for the comic book titans.


Monday, December 19, 2022

Chicago removes 'citizen' from municipal code | National Report

Chicago, a city on the precipice, just removed the word "citizen" for its municipal code.


Saturday, December 17, 2022

Ray Charles: 'Merry Christmas Baby' 1979

Ray Charles was one of those performers who could take a familiar song, in this instance "Merry Christmas Baby," and elevate it into the stratosphere. Here he is in 1979 performing in a German monastery.


Tucker: Adam Kinzinger... what a man can be when he stops trying to be a man

One of my great mistakes--breaking news, I am not perfect--was my enthusiastic support of Adam Kinzinger in 2010 and 2012. After his second relection, he turned to the left. Tucker Carlson last night said "Goodbye" to this weasel.


Friday, December 16, 2022

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Karine Jean-Pierre says Biden supports an effort, then asks what that effort is

This video clip is unintentionally hilarious. The worst White House press secretary in history, Karine Jean-Pierre, takes a question, says she supports the "effort" about the question--while combing thru her legendary notebook--then asks what the effort is.


Elon and the suspensions, a much better explanation

This Fox News link give a better explanation of this so-called "attack" on free speech by Elon Musk that you might have seen elsewhere. 

As always, never believe the media hype. The absurdly named email newsletter "Reliable Sources" by CNN's Oliver Darcy gives one of the worst accounts of why the Twitter accounts of the New York Times' Ryan Mac, CNN's Donie O'Sullivan, and the Washington Post's Drew Harwell, leftist journalist Aaron Rupar and longtime blowhard Keith Olbermann. 

What really happened? In short, Musk banned several accounts for sharing a link that posts the location of his private jet on Mastodon. Musk fears that an attempt on his life might be made. 

Did these banned-from-Twitter journalists loudly object, or even object at all, when Twitter suspended the New York Post for breaking the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020? And what happened to the leftist mantra from 2020-2021, "Twitter is a private company, it can do whatever it wants?"

Thursday, December 15, 2022

Mark Dice: Old Joe Does the Unthinkable at the White House

Remember, just a few years ago Joe Biden said, "Marriage is between a man and a woman, what's the game going on here?"


Wednesday, December 14, 2022

‘The Five’: How on earth did Sam Brinton get a security clearance?

Sam Brinton, the Biden administration's former deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy, who allegedly twice stole luggage at airports, received a security clearance. Did Brinton, who identifies as non-binary, just now start his crime spree?

Where does the Biden White House find clowns like Brinton?


Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Mark Dice on the new Twitter: They're Not Taking It Very Well

"Elon Musk's Tweets are the new Donald Trump's Tweets," is how Mark Dice opens his latest video. "Whatever he posts on his new toy Twitter causes the liberal media to completely melt down."


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Monday, December 12, 2022

The left doesn't like an ‘even playing field’ on Twitter

Leftists are only interested in informational fair play if they are always in the advantage.


Six dead and at least 25 wounded over weekend in Chicago, one mass shooting

Over this past weekend six people were shot to death and at least 25 others were wounded. There was a mass shooting outside a bar in Belmont Cragin on the Northwest Side, in which two men and one woman were killed and one woman was wounded. 

Also over the weekend, Joseph Kromelis, 75, a homeless man who was set on fire in May on Lower Wacker Drive downtown, died yesterday afternoon

Also, Mike Flannery, on his Fox Chicago Flannery Fired Up show, said that for the third straight year Chicago may exceed 700 homicides. That's something you can say to apologists who will tell you crime is down in Chicago.

Saturday, December 10, 2022

Paul Revere and The Raiders - The Christmas Song

Here's an old favorite, "The Christmas Song," performed by Paul Revere and the Raiders.


How the IRS is going after working Americans

Like Richard Nixon, the Deep State is using the IRS to attack its enemies.


Friday, December 09, 2022

Illinois named worst state for the middle class

This report is no surprise to me. 

From Just the News:

A new report lists the Land of Lincoln as the least tax-friendly state in the nation for middle-class families. 

The report was done by Kiplinger and ranked the 10 worst states for middle-class families when looking at the state's overall tax burden.

"Sorry, Illinois, but you're the least tax-friendly state in the country for middle-class families," the report said. 

Illinois finished poorly on the list due to the impact on the middle class from the state's flat income tax rate, average combined state and local sales tax and its high property tax burden that ranks second highest in the country.

Inflation remains high, wholesale rate up 7.4 percent on an annual basis in November

As the song says, it will be a Blue Christmas. 

From Fox Business:

Inflation at the wholesale level rose more than expected in November as prices for everyday necessities remain at a multi-decade high.
The Labor Department said Friday that its producer price index, which measures inflation at the wholesale level before it reaches consumers, rose 0.3% in November from the previous month. On an annual basis, prices soared 7.4%.
That is down from the 8% reading recorded in October and marks the lowest reading since May 2021.
Still, those figures were both higher than the 7.2% headline figure and 0.2% monthly gain forecast by Refinitiv economists, a worrisome sign for the Federal Reserve as it seeks to cool price gains and tame consumer demand with the most aggressive interest rate hike campaign since the 1980s.
Excluding food, energy and trade services, inflation at the wholesale level increased 0.3% for the month — up from a 0.2% gain in October. Over the past 12 months, core prices climbed 4.9%.

Thursday, December 08, 2022

Joe Biden tries to tell Arizona crowd about nanochips, but can't get out the right words

Joe Biden needs another lie-down. Nanoo...Nanooo? Robin Williams in "Mork and Mindy?"


Tucker Carlson: Censorship is the actual threat to democracy

Preventing the free flow of information is a threat to our republic. Big Tech colluding the the Biden White House is in the censorship business.


Tuesday, December 06, 2022

Musk fires Twitter deputy general counsel Jim Baker amid Hunter Biden laptop scandal

No one is perfect, including Elon Musk. 

Why didn't he fire Jim Baker earlier?

From Fox Business:

Elon Musk said that Twitter's former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker was "exited" from the company on Tuesday after revelations about his role in the platform's handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Journalist Matt Taibbi published internal communications over the weekend that took place among Twitter's top brass in October 2020 about how to deal with the New York Post's publication of materials on Hunter Biden's laptop. 
Baker was involved in discussions about whether the laptop falls under Twitter's "hacked materials" policy. "I support the conclusion that we need more facts to assess whether the materials were hacked," Baker wrote in one email chain. 

"At this stage, however, it's reasonable for us to assume that they may have been and that caution is warranted."

Chicago can't even properly manage yard waste collection

Axios Chicago offers more proof of the endemic incompetence of Chicago's municipal government by reporting that yard waste collection, including of course fallen autumn leaves, in Chicago has plummeted 60 percent--even though requests to collect yard waste has soared in the last couple of years.

In Illinois, it's illegal to place yard waste in landfills. Chicago residents with yard waste are supposed to bag their yard waste in paper bags and call 311 so the Department of Streets and Sanitation Department for collection and composting. 

Michael Avenatti 'promised' to put Donald Trump in jail and now is 'in jail himself'

Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels former lawyer, was touted as a man who should run for president by Brian "the Potato" Stelter. The Creepy Porn Lawyer said he would send Donald Trump to prison. But it's Avenatti who is doing the "perp walk."


Monday, December 05, 2022

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SNL mocks Joe Biden for having 'full blown' brain damage

Saturday Night Live has finally criticized Joe Biden. 

Even the left-wing media is catching on to Biden's cognitive decline, terming it CTE, short for chronic traumatic encephalopathy. 


Four killed, including local actor, and at least 12 wounded over weekend in Chicago

The first weekend of December saw four deadly shootings in Chicago. 

On Friday, two men were shot another wounded in a drive by shooting in Austin on the West Side. One of the slain was Xavier Lofton of suburban Bellwood, a local actor

On Saturday, in Auburn Gresham on the South Side, two men were discovered shot to death by Chicago Police officers. 

Overall, at least twelve people were wounded in weekend Chicago shootings.

Saturday, December 03, 2022

Eric Clapton - Christmas In My Hometown

The legendary Eric Clapton is of course known as top-tier guitarist in the blues and rock genres. But legends can always do more. Here is his crooning a country song, "Christmas In My Hometown."


Friday, December 02, 2022

Elon Musk drops bombshell about Twitter's censorship of Hunter Biden story

The 2020 presidential election was not, as I mentioned in my prior post, a free and fair election.


Florida takes the axe to BlackRock for its 'woke' agenda, ESG funding

Man, oh man, do I love Florida. Ron DeSantis just attacked BlackRock on its woke investment strategy, ESG, short for "environmental, social, and corporate governance." As the saying goes, once you go woke, you go broke.


Thursday, December 01, 2022

Rand Paul on rail strike: Congress shouldn't be involved with contracts

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is correct. Congress should have no part in labor contracts.


MORE LIES: Karine Jean-Pierre claims Biden has "been to the border," except he has not

As president, Joe Biden has not visited the southern border. Watch as the worst press secretary in history, Karine Jean-Pierre, mocks Fox News' Peter Doocy as she laughingly dismisses his question about whe Biden will visit the southern border, in a sign of disrespect not to Doocy--but to the American people.


Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Biden, who quit freshman football team his FIRST semester, claims he "could've been an All-American"

Joe Biden is at it again with his lies. Now he claims he could have been a football All-American. But Biden quit the freshman football team at Delaware as a freshman.


Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Book review: A San Francisco Conservative, David Parker Essays Volume Two

If you are like me, a conservative trapped in a very blue part of a blue state, then you can relate to what David Parker endures. The author the partially eponymous A San Francisco Conservative David Parker Essays Volume Two, Parker lives in a place that is probably the most liberal city in America.

Parker is a retired public school teacher

About himself, Parker says:

A classical liberal, not socially conservative. Politically conservative, I believe the U.S. Constitution should be interpreted literally--that a nation that can't abide by simple set of rules written on ONE page doesn't deserve to exist. Economically conservative: I believe the market, not government, should solve a nation's economic problems. A classical liberal, I understand that social, political, and economic freedom are so inherently interconnected that society cannot restrict one without restricting the other two. Why restrict any of them?

Those are great points. Parker says he is "a card-carrying member of the ACLU," but he bemoans that this group, far from being one of my favorites by the way, should also fight for economic freedom. 

Parker in his book champions the heroes of Western civilization, men such as F.A. Hayek, John Locke, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Fredrick Douglass. Oh, and of course, the Founding Fathers of the United States. 

Naturally, Parker is an opponent of multiculturism, one of the prominent cards--in my words--in the woke deck. How did our society move away from Western civilization to multiculturism? 

Parker writes:

The shift came about because multiculturalists value individual security more than they value individual freedom--why they abandon principle of individual liberty to achieve (in their minds) a greater collective good: economic and social equality, as if beyond political equality, social and economic equality are possible, as if the U.S. Constitution wasn't designed to prevent such an attempt. Outside socialist totalitarianism, social and economic equality are not possible. 

The first part of that passage reminds me of the story Dan Bongino relates from The Walking Dead television series, when the main characters voluntarily retreat into an old prison. They give up freedom of movement to protect themselves from murderous zombies. The second part of the passage takes me to my wife, who was born in that worker's paradise, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. "We were all equal in the Soviet Union," she always says, "we were all poor."

That is why the left now speaks of "equity" instead of "equality."

Earlier I mentioned de Tocqueville. Parker relates that the author of Democracy in America "praised associational life in America," adding how he "recognized the dark side and how members of a majority with a dominant point of view can exercise great power to intimidate, to curtail liberties, to curtail free speech." Nationally, the left is not the majority, but it is in San Francisco, in the Chicago area, where I live, and of course on college campuses. But nationally, liberalism is the loudest voice--often a shrieking one. 

As the holiday season is upon us, Christmas gifts come to mind. A San Francisco Conservative David Parker Essays Volume Two is an ideal gift for those on-the-fence liberals or moderates on your shopping list who have swallowed the MSNBC lines that modern conservatism is only about social issues, or that reliable canard, white supremacy.

And you can always gift this book to yourself, and yes, to your conservative friends and relatives too. 

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Meet Biden's nuclear energy specialist

Not only does it appear that a Biden administration official, nuclear energy specialist, is unaqualified for his job, he may be a thief. Oh, he's transgendered, which might explain why he was hired.


Monday, November 28, 2022

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Five shot to death in Chicago over Thanksgiving weekend and at least 23 others were wounded, there was one mass shooting

Thanksgiving weekend saw five fatal shootings and 23 others wounded in Chicago. 

All of the deadly shootings occurred on Saturday. Two people were among four shot in a mass shooting in West Pullman on the South Side. Not too far away, Greater Grand Crossing and Auburn Gresham each saw a fatal shooting.

And on the West Side, a 40-year-old man was killed by a gunshot to the head in West Garfield Park.

So far in 2022, there have been 668 homicides in Chicago, according to Hey Jackass.

Saturday, November 26, 2022

Howlin' Wolf - Down In The Bottom (Live)

There are countless songs, particularly in the rock and blues genres, about automobiles. And there are lots of tunes with trains and motorcycles in them. What about running? 

Well, your beloved Marathon Pundit hasn't found any. I am not counting songs about running away.

Here's one about the latter, Howlin' Wolf belting out Willie Dixon's "Down In the Bottom." Amazingly, it mentions running shoes.


Biden ripped as "worst president the country has seen in 100 years"

US Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), a smart man, has this to say about Joe Biden. He is the "worst president the country has seen in 100 years." 

I'll go back further. Senile Joe is the biggest failure to occupy the White House since James Buchanan. He was elected in 1856.


Friday, November 25, 2022

White House sends mixed messages on Biden's involvement in rail strike talks

Do you remember a few months ago when Joe Biden saved our economy from the stress of a rail strike?

Only Biden didn't.


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Thursday, November 24, 2022

Mark Dice: A Woke Thanksgiving! 😂

Wokism never takes a holiday. And Mark Dice talks about notable people who claimed to be a member of a different race.


Johnny Cash - Thanksgiving / I Thank You

Only one performer, Johnny Cash, could have come up with a part-spoken word, part song, Thanksgiving message like this one. 

This is from his ABC television show.


Tucker Carlson: This is a grotesque and filthy lie

Leftist journalists were quick to blame conservatives and specifically, Tucker Carlson, for the Club Q mass shooting in Colorado. But it turns out that a non-binary man (I know what I wrote) was the evil gunman. 

Not surprisingly, MSNBC and NBC propagandists were the worst in regard to the knee-jerk reactions blaming Carlson. They include Chris Hayes, Nicolle Wallace, and Ben Collins.


Happy Thanksgiving

 Have a great Thanksgiving, my fellow patriots!

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Mark Dice: Thanksgiving meltdowns have started by liberals upset about white people

As with so many holidays, Independence Day, Halloween, and Christmas--Thanksgiving is another day for liberals to be enraged about.


Tuesday, November 22, 2022

CBS News verifying Hunter Biden's laptop years later is 'hilarious': Rep. Stewart

More than two years after 60 Minutes propagandist Lesley Stahl refused to discuss the Hunter Biden laptop because "it hasn't been verified," her network, CBS, has done just that. 

Maria Bartiromo and US Rep. Chris Steward (R-UT) discuss.


John Stossel: This Thanksgiving, say thank you to "private property”

There is much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. America, despite the efforts of leftists, is not a socialist nation.


Monday, November 21, 2022

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3 killed, including one teen, and at least 19 others wounded in Chicago over weekend

The coldest weekend in months didn't slow down the violence in Chicago. Over the past weekend three people were shot to death and at least 19 others were wounded.

The fatalities include a 15-year-old girl and a 44-year-old man were shot to death in Austin on the West Side on Sunday night, a third person was wounded.

In another Sunday night West Side triple-shooting, this time in East Garfield Park, a 31-year-old man was killed. 

On the political front, today is the first day where candidates for mayor of Chicago can file petitions to appear on the ballot--the first round of voting takes place in late February. As I've mentioned before, the incumbent, Lori Lightfoot, will run for reelection. As a candidate four years ago, Lightfoot said the level of violence then was "unacceptable." 

Only it's higher now.

Saturday, November 19, 2022

Eric Clapton - This Has Gotta Stop

Eric Clapton, along with Van Morrison, has been at the forefront of opposition of COVID-19 lockdowns. Which means cancel culture is out to crush him.

Earlier this week I saw some internet article about, I think, songs that shouldn't be broadcast on the radio, 

Clapton's "This Has Gotta Stop," which is believed to be about vaccine mandates, was one of them.

Which is why you see it here.

While the London tube graffiti "Clapton is God" is an enormous exaggeration, "Slowhand" is indeed godly


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McEnany: It sounds like the White House is worried

The Biden Administration should be worried. Joe Biden is the boss of an influence-peddling operation--Hunter Biden is just the front man for his father.


Friday, November 18, 2022

FTX ‘scam’ was closely tied to the Democrat Party

Why isn't the mainstream media going with wall-to-wall coverage on the collapse of cryptocurrency FTX? Oh, because its ousted CEO was a yuge donor to Democrats.


This was a massive new bombshell on Hunter Biden: GOP Congressman

Is there more than the push for green energy that has driven up the price of gasoline?


Thursday, November 17, 2022

Joe Biden swoons over biceps of random Russian man in Bali

After showing a bunch of Joe Biden gaffes and other Biden goofiness, Paul Murray tells us about the latest one.


Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Adviser already warns press that Fetterman won't be able to handle 'yelling questions' at him 'will not work' due to stroke

And how will John Fetterman be able to follow discussions in Senate committees and on the floor of the upper chamber?

Pennsylvanians, you made a big mistake.

From Fox News:

Rebecca Kirszner Katz, adviser to Senator-Elect John Fetterman, argued on Twitter that reporters’ traditional method of "yelling questions" at senators in the hallways "will not work" with the Democratic Pennsylvania politician.

Her comment came following a Tuesday tweet from HuffPost senior politics reporter Igor Bobic, who mentioned that Fetterman did not respond to a question as they passed each other. "Spotted in Senate basement: John Fetterman. 

He didn’t answer when I asked if he’ll be able to wear his hoodie on Senate floor." Bobic tweeted. 

Katz later responded to Bobic’s question and also added the act of "yelling questions at Senators" will no longer "work" as Fetterman continues to recover from the stroke that he suffered back in May.

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

LIAR: Biden DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas continues to absurdly claim the border is "secure"

Yes, it's possible for someone to be a bigger liar than a Facebook fact-checker. Joe Biden's Homeland security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, is such a person.

Fact: Our southern border is not secure.


Jesse Jackson's half-brother, Noah Robinson, released from prison, he was serving a life term

Here's a story, from the Chicago Sun-Times, that isn't getting the attention it deserves. Yes, Robinson, 80, was released under a bill, the First Step Act, that was signed into law by Donald Trump. But I believe Robinson should remain locked up--ordering a contract killing is not a crime of passion. 

More from the Sun-Times:

Noah Robinson Jr., an Ivy League-educated millionaire businessman with fast-food restaurants, was convicted of hiring hit men from Chicago’s notorious El Rukn street gang to kill a boyhood friend, Leroy "Hambone" Barber, after they got into a fistfight in South Carolina, where they’d grown up.

A woman who witnessed the killing was wounded in a later hit that Robinson ordered, and he ordered another hit that wasn’t carried out, prosecutors said. Robinson also was accused of helping El Rukn members connect with East Coast cocaine and heroin suppliers. 

Robinson was taken into federal custody in 1989 and sentenced to life in prison, but his 1991 conviction was overturned after prosecutors were accused of misconduct. He was retried in 1996 and sentenced to life in prison — a sentence that has been commuted to time served. 

He was released last month. Robinson had asked in 2020 for a "compassionate release" under the First Step Act signed into law by former President Donald Trump in 2018.
Prosecutors opposed freeing Robinson.

Two other members of Jesse Jackson's family have served time in federal prison. Former US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr was convicted of financial irregularities involving his campaign fund. His then wife, Sandi, was convicted on tax charges. She was a Chicago alderman. Oh, they weren't called alderpersons then. 

Last week Jonathan Jackson, another son of Jesse Sr, was elected to the US House, representing a Chicago district. He'll fill the seat currently held by Bobby Rush.


Monday, November 14, 2022

Six dead and at least 21 others wounded over weekend in Chicago

The first weekend after the midterm elections saw six dead and at least 21 others wounded. Chicago goes from one election to another--as the first round of municipal elections will be in late February. Incumbent Lori Lightfoot is running for reelection. As a candidate in 2019 she said that the current level of violence is too high. 

It's higher now. 

Saturday, November 12, 2022

Van Morrison - Stop Bitching, Do Something

Election Day is in the rear view mirror and now there is a lot of moaning. 

Now what? Take Van Morrison's advice given in his "Stop Bitching, Do Something."


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Fox News reports on skyrocketing Thanksgiving prices

Thanksgiving 2022 will be an expensive one. Brandon sucks.


Friday, November 11, 2022

Gutfeld: Biden's student loan handout is on hold again

On what do possible recipients of Joe Biden's student loan giveaway? According to a poll, nearly three-quarters of them plan to spend it on things like travel or eating out.


Thursday, November 10, 2022

Biden presidency 'is over' and his agenda will be 'done': Megyn Kelly

While the GOP didn't have a spectacular Election Day, we'll win at least the House. The situation is like a NFL game where the heavily favored team wins by one point. A win is a win. 

And it's a loss for Joe Biden, as Megyn Kelly tells us. "The Biden presidency, for all intents and purposes, is over," she tells Sky News' Paul Murray. "He won't be able to get any legislation passed through."


Wednesday, November 09, 2022

From American Spectator: Maybe America Hasn’t Suffered Enough

Election Day wasn't what I was hoping for in regards to results. Here's a piece worth studying, from Scott McKay at the American Spectator: Maybe America Hasn't Suffered Enough.

Mark Dice: Midterm fallout - what now?

Mark Dice gives us analysis of a still developing story, Election Day 2022.


Tuesday, November 08, 2022

Kari Lake tells Arizonans to stay in line: "Don’t let this craziness stop you"

There are numerous problems with voting machines in Arizona's largest county, Maricopa. 

Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has perfect advice for Arizonans--stay in line. And also, "Don't let this craziness stop you."


Gutfeld: Elon Musk is cleansing Twitter of lame comedians

This Gutfeld clip includes the latest on alleged-comedian Kathy Griffin, who briefly returned to Twitter, using her deceased mother's account, after her own account was suspended for impersonating Elon Musk.


Monday, November 07, 2022

5 killed and at least 32 others wounded in Chicago over weekend; one mass shooting

Over the past weekend five people were shot to death at least 32 other people were wounded in Chicago. Five teens were shot--one of them fatally. 

And there was a mass shooting outside a River North night club early Sunday morning where four people were shot--and one of those victims was killed.

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Saturday, November 05, 2022

Squeeze - Cradle to the Grave

Here's a terrific sounding tune from the later part of Squeeze's career, the title track from "Cradle to the Grave."


Friday, November 04, 2022

Mark Dice: CNN is having some MAJOR problems 😂

CNN's problems continue, even after it tossed Brian Stelter and Jeffrey Toobin overboard


Thursday, November 03, 2022

From Doug Ross: Don't Cry For Me, America

Around 100 years ago Argentina and the United States weren't far apart economically. Then came massive government spending on social programs in Argentina. 

Doug Ross explains