Hollywood Face-slaps Conservatives
Goodness! What a night. During the live broadcast of the Academy Awards, actor Will Smith walked up to the stage and face-slapped comedian Chris Rock. When Smith returned to...
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California Gov. Newsom’s Firewall: Republican-hating Voters
I arrived early for my dinner with a friend at a restaurant on the Westside of Los Angeles. At the table to my right sat two women. We started...
GOP “Gerrymandering” Is “Racist” — Obama-mandering Is Just Politics
The term “gerrymander” derives from Elbridge Gerry, a Founding Father and vice president who, as governor of Massachusetts, approved an oddly drawn state senate district to benefit his Democratic-Republican...
The Great Joe Rogan N-Word Controversy
White popular podcaster Joe Rogan apologized after someone posted a 30-second compilation clip on YouTube of Rogan repeatedly saying the N-word. Rogan described his uses of the word, culled...
A Tale of Top IS Leaders Killed Under Two Administrations
When President Donald Trump, in October 2019, ordered a successful takedown of top Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Democrats and even the anti-Trump media celebrated the death...
Los Angeles Times Slams “Vitriol in Politics” — After Hiring Vitriolic Columnists
There’s an old joke about the convicted defendant who, after killing his parents, asked the judge for leniency because, after all, the murderer is now an orphan. A recent...
Biden Preemptively Questions 2022 — But Trump’s a “Big Liar” About 2020
Former President Donald Trump questions the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election. For half the country, this makes him a “sore loser” who promotes “conspiracy theories” and pushes “The...
MLK Day: Equal Rights Versus Equal Results
On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it becomes necessary to again remind us all of the distinction between equal rights, deserved by all, and equal results, deserve by...
Big Tech Thugs and Their Allies
In an article last February headlined “Do Facebook, Twitter and YouTube censor conservatives? Claims ‘not supported by the facts,’ new research says,” USA Today’s Jessica Guynn wrote, “Despite repeated...
Harry Reid, Death of a “Statesman”? Cue the Laughter
No, calling Reid a "statesman" is not the same as calling O.J. Simpson, a double murderer who attended the funeral of his butchered-to-death wife, a "grief counselor." But it's...
No Wonder Why People and Businesses Are Dumping California
For the first time, California's population decreased last year, resulting in the loss of a congressional seat. In the third quarter of this year, 150,000 more people on average...
Why Hasn’t Jussie Smollett Been Charged with Perjury?
This did not wear well. On February 22, 2019, a story posted on Gentleman’s Quarterly website was headlined: “The Racist, Homophobic Attack on Jussie Smollett Is America’s Endgame. When...
The Kamala Conundrum — Why Dems Are Stuck With Her
The only possible way out is for Biden and the party to swap Kamala Harris out for another black female. But the bench is shallow. ...
The Kyle Rittenhouse Case — Send in the Clowns
During and after the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the white 18-year-old accused of murdering two white men and injuring another, one could hardly keep track of the insanity based...
“Infrastructure” Bill — Does Anyone Still Believe in the Constitution?
It's no surprise that Democrats want an "infrastructure" bill. The depressing part is that the supposedly limited government/federalist Republicans are prepared to comply. ...