ose the “anti” right off the top and go with “fa,” short for fascists, which is what the current rioters across the country really are. For those who may be confused, Edward Gibbon provides some helpful background in his The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Fasces or fascines were bundles […]
peaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) calls it the “HEROES Act,” but $3,000,000,000,000.00 makes it clear that “ZEROES Act” would be more appropriate. Embattled taxpayers might wonder where Pelosi is sending all that money. As CNBC explains, the $3 trillion package “includes funding for state and local governments, additional direct payments to Americans and […]
e have to get the schools open, we have to get our country open, we have to open our country. Now we want to do it safely, but we also want to do it as quickly as possible, we can’t keep going on like this.” That was President Trump in an interview on Thursday. By […]
ichard Wayne Penniman, better known as “Little Richard,” died on Saturday at his Nashville home. He was 87. Millennials and such may be unaware of the man and the great American music he pioneered. As the big-band era of the 1940s began to wane, musicians opted for smaller combos. They pounded out a rollicking sound […]
housands of flag-waving Californians descended upon the State Capitol Friday for a protest of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide stay-at-home lockdown order, which has caused millions of residents to lose their jobs and businesses,” wrote Katy Grimes in the California Globe. Down in Huntington Beach in Orange County, as Fox News explained, protesters were backing up […]
ack in March, as CalMatters noted, California legislators “made $500 million available immediately and allowed [Governor Gavin] Newsom to spend up to $1 billion total,” and passed unanimously two bills “waiving a requirement that legislation must be in print for three days before lawmakers can act.” Legislators also suspended public hearings for at least a […]
he University of California, now with 10 campuses, long has been hailed as one of the world’s greatest research universities. Students, parents, and in particular distinguished UC alumni, might check out what is going now, as UC bosses “relax” admission requirements for fall 2020 “and future years as applicable,” as the office of the UC […]
ouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi turns 80 on Thursday. In the runup to that milestone, Pelosi launched impeachment proceedings against President Trump, who was duly acquitted. By way of follow-up, she decided to block the Senate’s coronavirus response package earlier this week, and on Monday offered a 1,200-page version of her own chock full of goodies […]
Back in the day, “Saturday Night Live” staged a game show posing the question: ¿Quien es mas macho? ¿Ricardo Montalban o Fernando Lamas? If memory serves, Fernando Lamas was un poquito mas macho. Thirty years down the road, SNL might try judging which Trump hater is more loathsome than the others. The field jostles with […]
Despite what she claimed, Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is not of Native American ancestry in general or Cherokee ancestry in particular. In similar style, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) claimed he served in Vietnam but didn’t. As these and other cases confirm—Jussie Smollett also comes to mind—the United States is a leader in fake news […]
A specter is haunting San Francisco, the city by the Bay, also known as “The City.” Call it the “defecation crisis,” or an excess of excrement, but as they say, it is the shit, and lots of it. So much, in fact, that maps mark out favored defecation areas, and we are not talking about […]
“Trump Should Be Removed from Office,” reads a December 19 headline, but it comes not from the Washington Post, New York Times or CNN. The headline is from Christianity Today. As editor Mark Galli writes, “in our founding documents, Billy Graham explains that Christianity Today will help evangelical Christians interpret the news in a manner that […]
Since the election of Donald Trump in 2016, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 79, has spearheaded the Democrats’ surge to impeach the president. As that campaign unfolds, observers of all parties have reason to cast their eyes upon Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). The San Francisco Democrat, 86, has a curious take on recent revelations from Department […]
“Don’t mess with me,” Nancy Pelosi warned reporter James Rosen last week when he asked the House speaker if she hated the president. “I don’t hate anybody,” Pelosi replied, explaining that she was a Catholic who prays for President Trump all the time. The day before, Pelosi mounted the speaker’s balcony and announced: “Sadly, but […]