Can anti-Semitic attacks in New York be traced to the Nation of Islam?
The media finally seems to be paying attention to the wave of anti-Semitic attacks in the New York area, after the sheer number and violence of those attacks peaked last month. But while the media is...
View ArticleGood news: Lori Loughlin learning martial arts, "prison lingo" to prepare for...
To cleanse the palate, I have no deep thoughts here. I just wanted you to know that the woman you remember from the most wholesome sitcom on 80s television, who went on to star in soap operas for the...
View ArticleThere needs to be a new AUMF over Iraq
The new military action in Iraq is why Congress needs to vote on a new Authorization to Use Military Force in Iraq. It's constitutional, after all, since Congress is the only branch of the United...
View ArticleRetired general on Soleimani strike: This would be an excellent time for...
James "Spider" Marks has a few words for Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) -- use fewer yourself. In the immediate aftermath of the attack on the embassy in Baghdad, Murphy accused Trump of being "impotent,"...
View ArticleAre you ready for environmental reparations to fund the Green New Deal?
The leftists participating in the weekly Fire Drill Fridays want to eliminate the fossil fuel industry and take all the money from the energy industry companies. They tout wealth redistribution from...
View ArticleNYT reporter: Sources tell me the intelligence suggesting Soleimani was...
It's ironic that political considerations suddenly now require Trump and the GOP to place their faith in the good judgment of the intelligence community after deriding them as deep-state liars for the...
View ArticleNFL wildcard round 1 open thread
Jazz: Well, that was certainly an exciting end to the regular season. After an up and down series of performances leading to Ed and I being tied in weeks 15 and 16, it all came down to the last...
View ArticleUK court extends new legal protection to "ethical veganism"
A ruling was handed down on Friday by a U.K. employment tribunal allowing ethical vegans to be protected from discrimination by law. With this ruling, ethical veganism now has the same legal...
View ArticleThe "God is on our side" concern in politics
The entire notion of a political leader saying "God is on our side," tends to rub me the wrong way. I grew up at a Southern Baptist high school where the notion of God and politics crossed paths...
View ArticleWhy Rose Tico deserved to be written out of Rise of Skywalker
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.As I said last month, I wasn't really interested in seeing Rise of Skywalker and I haven't. I assumed it would be bad and that it would make a lot of...
View ArticleSunday morning talking heads
A long string of Sunday programming devoted to impeachment and the 2020 race is broken today by this week's news out of Baghdad, with the morning shows turning their attention to the killing of Qassem...
View ArticleThe assassination debate and implications
One of the bigger questions for observers since the killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Major General Qasem Soleimani is whether the United States carried out its first blatant act of assassination...
View ArticleCruz trolls Democrats with Senate resolution praising Soleimani mission
Senator Ted Cruz is promoting a resolution commending the Trump administration for its mission to take out Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. In doing so he is daring the Senate Democrats to oppose it....
View ArticleDo you know what I know? Sunday reflection
This morning’s Gospel reading is Matthew 2:1–12:When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is the newborn king...
View ArticleNFL wild-card playoffs Sunday thread, the Pats Go Marching Out edition
Ed: I may have lost the regular-season contest, but at least I got off to a good start in the playoffs ... barely, at 1-1. Houston staged a comeback from a sixteen-point deficit to beat Buffalo in OT,...
View ArticleIraqi parliament votes to end U.S. troop presence after Soleimani killing....
Imagine trying to punish Donald Trump by making it easier for him to withdraw American troops from a Middle Eastern country.Next they'll penalize him by greenlighting construction of a new Trump hotel...
View ArticleNY police chief: rapper who was no-billed by grand jury still guilty
A couple of years ago, a rapper in Greece, New York decided to make a music video called "School Shooter." The video itself features school property but the content and the lyrics do not reference any...
View ArticleJane Fonda, Daniel Ellsberg join with Code Pink's anti-war protest
It's enough to bring on flashbacks to the early 1970s - Jane Fonda and Daniel Ellsberg joined in with others in Washington, D.C. to protest the attack that killed Iranian General Qassem Suleimani. The...
View ArticleKaepernick: Soleimani death is American Imperialism against black and brown...
Colin Kaepernick has some thoughts about the death of Iranian General Soleimani, and it's quite the hot take, really. Instead of noting that the evilest man alive is no longer plotting the deaths of...
View ArticleIran: we're completely done with the nuclear agreement
You had to know this was coming. Iran is done with the nuclear agreement it negotiated with the Obama Administration and the European Union. Via Islamic Republic News Agency aka the official Iran news...
View Article