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Koch Brothers: Please Buy the L.A. Times!
16 May 2013 12:04 am

Hearing rumors that the billionaire, libertarian Koch brothers might buy the Los Angeles Times, the L.A. City Council sprung into action. Three members proposed a motion to oppose the sale of the Times to any owner seeking to turn “L.A.’s metropolitan daily into an ideological mouthpiece.” Cue the laugh track.

UCLA professor Tim Groseclose wrote “Left Turns: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind.” Of 20 major news outlets, he found 18 were left-wing. Only two tilted to the right — The Washington Times and “Fox News Special Report.” Groseclose …

Hero Charles Ramsey — Media Delete His ‘Pretty White Girl’ Comment
9 May 2013 12:04 am

Three young Cleveland girls missing and presumed dead turned up alive and in good health. A hero of the story is a neighbor, Charles Ramsey, a black man who helped free the girls from the home in which they were apparently imprisoned for some 10 years.

Among other things, Ramsey said: “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway. Dead giveaway. Dead giveaway. Either she homeless, or she got problems. That’s the only reason she run …

NBA Player ‘Comes Out’ — but Tolerance Cuts Both Ways
2 May 2013 12:04 am

Compared to the hell Jackie Robinson went through, Jason Collins is getting a ticker tape parade.

Collins, a 12-year National Basketball Association player, recently wrote a column in which he announced that he is gay: “I didn’t set out to be the first openly gay (male) athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I’m happy to start the conversation.”
When comedian Ellen DeGeneres came out in 1997, she appeared on the cover of Time magazine with the earth-shattering headline, ‘Yep, I’m Gay.’ With a general population that …

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: A Product of an All-American Left-wing Education?
25 Apr 2013 12:04 am

That the older Boston bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, became a terrorist strikes one as disturbing. That younger brother Dzhokhar also became a terrorist strikes one as frightening.

Adjusting to new country can be trying and stressful. The brothers’ parents came to America, only to return to Russia. Tamerlan came at age 16. A widely reported quote attributed to Tamerlan from 2010 says: “I don’t have one American friend. I don’t understand them.” According to his aunt, Tamerlan became a devout Muslim. He reportedly once stood up and shouted down his imam …

America’s Enemies Are Colorblind
18 Apr 2013 12:04 am

Investigators cannot yet tell whether the bombings at the Boston marathon, which so far have killed three and wounded more than 170, are the product of domestic or foreign terrorist(s).
But whether foreign or domestic, America’s enemies are colorblind.
In supporting President Barack Obama’s re-election, The New York Times editorialized about how his smarter, more respectful foreign policy helped to re-brand America in the eyes of the world: “(Obama) introduced a measure of military restraint after the Bush years and helped repair America’s badly damaged reputation in many countries from the low …

Five Decades of Lies Help Dems Create Monolithic Black Vote
11 Apr 2013 12:14 am

As recently as 1956, nearly 39 percent of blacks voted Republican in that year’s presidential election. After the Civil War, Abe Lincoln’s Republican Party easily carried the black vote — where blacks were allowed to vote. Unwelcome in the Democratic Party, most blacks voted Republican and continued to do so through the early part of the 20th century. It wasn’t until 1948, when 77 percent of the black vote went to Harry Truman, who had desegregated the military, that a majority of blacks identified themselves as Democrats.
Yet, as a percentage …

Fox’s Juan Williams Gets It Half Right on Guns
4 Apr 2013 12:04 am

My latest book, “Dear Father, Dear Son,” focuses on the importance of fathers — and the increasing number of children who grow up in homes without one. Fox’s Juan Williams understands this — sort of. He gets the “what,” but not the “why.”
Williams, in a Wall Street Journal piece called “Race and the Gun Debate,” writes: “Gun-related violence and murders are concentrated among blacks and Latinos in big cities. Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34. But …

Jim Carrey — Not ‘Dumb & Dumber,’ Just Ignorant
28 Mar 2013 12:04 am

Gun control advocate comedian/actor Jim Carrey becomes the latest Hollywood leftie to trash legendary actor and former NRA head Charlton Heston. About his new anti-Heston parody song, Carrey tweeted: “‘Cold Dead Hand’ is abt u heartless motherf — kers unwilling 2 bend 4 the safety of our kids. Sorry if you’re offended by the word safety.”
Lyrics include: “Charlton Heston movies are no longer in demand, and his immortal soul may lay forever in the sand. The angels wouldn’t take him up to heaven like he’d planned, ’cause they couldn’t pry …

Bill Maher Discovers His Inner Grover Norquist
21 Mar 2013 12:04 am

To the list of liberals who vote for higher taxes — and then proceed to complain about them — add comedian Bill Maher.
Incredibly, the caustic, left-wing Maher recently warned, “ln California, I just want to say: Liberals — you could actually lose me.” As a resident of California, a state with high income taxes, Maher complained that his taxes are “over 50 percent.” What’s more, Maher made a point seldom heard except on Fox News or by a rich Parisian. Maher said, “Rich people … actually do pay the freight …

Women in Corporate America: Is this 2013 or 1953?
14 Mar 2013 12:04 am

Is Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg really complaining — in 2013 — that “only” 14 percent of executive officers are female, that women earn 77 cents compared to a dollar earned by men, and that women hurt their own advancement by failing to “lean in” and become more assertive?
Is this 2013 or 1953?
In her new book, “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,” Sandberg writes that “while women continue to outpace men in educational achievement,” women over the last 10 years have “ceased making real progress” in the top …

Dennis Rodman Hammered — Sean Penn, Michael Moore Get a Pass
7 Mar 2013 12:04 am

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman traveled to communist North Korea, a trip financed by a documentary filmmaker. Rodman appeared neither officially nor unofficially as part of the U.S. government.
An incredulous George Stephanopoulos of ABC subjected Rodman to a grilling more suitable for a corrupt, double-dealing politician: “When you said you love Kim (Jong Un) and think he’s awesome, were you aware of his threats to destroy the United States and his regime’s horrendous record on human rights? … Do you think you have a responsibility to ask him about it …

The Borking of ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
28 Feb 2013 12:04 am

Weeks before the Oscars, Sony Pictures, the studio behind “Zero Dark Thirty,” put out this statement: “We are outraged that any responsible member of the Academy would use their voting status in (the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences) as a platform to advance their own political agenda. The film should be judged free of partisanship. To punish an artist’s right of expression is abhorrent. This community, more than any other, should know how reprehensible that is.”
To what was Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal referring?
“Zero Dark Thirty,” directed by …

On Guns, Obama Finally Talks About the Culture of Fatherlessness
21 Feb 2013 12:04 am

Dads matter.
President Barack Obama said it recently in Chicago, a city on track for 600 murders this year, the equivalent of two Sandy Hooks per month. Too bad he still does not understand that his left-wing ideology is the problem.
After the Sandy Hook tragedy, Obama, much of his party and much of the media have been calling for further gun control and advocating “common sense” measures such as limiting the number of rounds in a magazine, “universal” background checks and restrictions on “assault weapons.”
But there is an 800-pound politically incorrect …

Dorner — Another Angry Fatherless Black Man With a Gun
14 Feb 2013 12:04 am

My new book, “Dear Father, Dear Son,” talks about the No. 1 social problem in America — children growing up without fathers.
In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote “The Negro Family: A Case for National Action.” At the time, 25 percent of blacks were born outside of wedlock, a number that the future Democratic senator from New York said was catastrophic to the black community.
Moynihan wrote: “A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken homes, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to …

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Threatens the ‘Bush-the-Incompetent’ Narrative
7 Feb 2013 12:04 am

In “Zero Dark Thirty,” the movie about the killing of Osama bin Laden, one of the first scenes shows a terrorist being waterboarded, where useful information gets extracted. The movie thus asserts the controversial practice leads to actionable intelligence.
Not only was former President George W. Bush criticized for “authorizing torture,” his critics argued that “torture doesn’t work.” During the 2008 presidential campaign, then-Sen. Barack Obama said: “Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. … No more secret authorization of methods like simulated drowning. When I am President, …

History Lesson: Under “Fascist” Bush, Democrats Feared Tyranny
31 Jan 2013 12:04 am

Once upon a time, a group of people known as the “Democrats” expressed great fear of tyranny by government.
This was a time long, long ago, when a man from a place called Texas, representing a people known as the Republicans, occupied the White House. Leaders of the Democrats feared tyranny by the Republicans and called the man from Texas racist, oppressive and tyrannical.
To refresh your recollection, we offer a few examples from the distant past:
Billionaire Democratic contributor George Soros. He said the George W. Bush White House displayed the “supremacist …

Why the ‘Disrespect’ for President Obama?
21 Jun 2012 12:03 am

Last week, a “right-wing activist” (according to Michael Eric Dyson, guest-hosting for Ed Schultz on MSNBC) interrupted President Barack Obama as he explained his executive order that bars deportation for at least 800,000 illegal aliens who came to America — “brought to this country by their parents” — before the age of 16.
As Obama stood in the White House Rose Garden and outlined the plan, Neil Munro, a reporter with a conservative website, shouted, “Why do you favor foreigners over American workers?” Based on his colleagues’ reaction, one would have …

Economy: Obama Brags About Treading Water
14 Jun 2012 12:03 am

After President Barack Obama said, “The private sector is doing fine,” he later quickly regrouped. “The economy is not doing fine (emphasis added). That’s the reason I had the press conference.” But Obama said he was particularly concerned about losses in the public sector. The cluelessness is absolutely stunning. Obama is wrong about both the private and public sector.
Obama’s assessment of the economy reminds many of 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s characterization of the economy. In September 2008, the investment firm Lehman Brothers was collapsing. Wall Street was shaking as the …

The Four Lies About the Economy That Obama Needs Voters to Believe
7 Jun 2012 12:03 am

President Barack Obama’s re-election turns on his ability to convince voters that 1) Obama inherited a “Great Recession,” 2) every “independent” economist supported the “stimulus,” 3) “bipartisan” economists agree that Obama’s stimulus worked, and 4) as actor Morgan Freeman puts it, racist Republicans say, “Screw the country … we’re going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here” — nothing to do with deeply held policy differences.
That’s a lot of merchandise to push.
1) Take this “Great Recession” business.
Remember the “misery index”? The term, popularized by former …

Why Jeremiah Wright Matters — Still, Part II
31 May 2012 12:03 am

Once upon a time, analysts, pundits and historians explored the relationship between a given subject and his father. We do so for possible insight into the subject’s values, character, decision-making process, biases, interests, fears, etc. You know — acorn, tree.
But the standard intellectual inquiry, for some reason, does not apply to the long, intimate relationship between Barack Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who called himself a “second father” to young Barack.
Sen. Obama described his 20-year relationship with his pastor this way: “What I value most about Pastor Wright is …

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