The George Washington Bridge connecting New York and New Jersey is a very long and fairly high bridge suspended over the Hudson River. 

At 3500 feet, the GWB is the longest suspension bridge in the world.  At 250 feet above the roiling waters of the Hudson, it’s not even close to being the highest bridge in the world but, like the Golden Gate Bridge, at the equivalent of twenty five stories high it’s more than high enough to attract suicidal individuals intent on ending their lives. 

Rutgers freshman Tyler Clemente, a quiet, talented violinist, posted a notice on his … Read the rest

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Back in the old days, circa 1971 A.D., Don Imus, pre-WFAN and pre- his “nappy-headed ho’s” scandal, had a song-shtick on his morning radio show which featured the “Reverend Billy Saul Hargis,” pastor of the First Church of the Gooey Death and Discount House of Worship.

In part, the lyrics were, “Well, I don’t care if it rains or freezes/Long as I have my plastic Jesus/Riding on the dashboard of my car./  I can go a hundred miles an hour/Long as I got the almighty power/Glued up there by my pair of fuzzy dice.”

As irreverent as those lyrics were, … Read the rest

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The Great Communicator, the nation’s last true conservative president, Ronaldus Magnus, Ronald Wilson Reagan, won the election of 1980 against Jimmy Carter in large part because he asked the nation a probing question in their last televised debate.

Reagan posed the question that cut to the essence of what Carter thought was the electorate’s malaise:   ”Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”

As Kyle-Anne Shiver recounts, ”That simple Reagan question reached right into my heart of hearts and transformed me from a poppycock-believing, hippie liberal to patriotic conservative in one fell swoop.”

Indeed, it was one … Read the rest

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School bullying is as indefensible as school cheating, and as common.

Bullying, especially among boys, (girls usually have more devious methods of harassment), is as much a part of the school experience as that cheating.  It’s always been and probably always will be.

I can visualize young Greek boys sitting on the grass in the Athenian sun as Socrates attempted to share with them, using the Socratic Method, of course, his views of knowledge and virtue as the rambunctious Plato taunted Demetrius because his tunic was torn.

Asher Brown, a student at Hamilton Middle School outside Houston was probably bullied … Read the rest

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The Society of Professional Journalists on Journalistic Integrity: “Members of the Society of Professional Journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. The duty of the journalist is to further those ends by seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues. Conscientious journalists from all media and specialties strive to serve the public with thoroughness and honesty. Professional integrity is the cornerstone of a journalist’s credibility. Members of the Society share a dedication to ethical behavior and adopt this code to declare the Society’s principles and standards of … Read the rest

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  “The United States of America is the only country in history to have defined itself as Judeo-Christian,” according to JewishWorldReview,com, which goes on to say, “That is why American coins feature these two messages: ‘In G-d we trust’ and ‘Liberty.’ “

I think the first statement above is untrue and the second, meant to distinguish us from Christian European nations, is a non-sequitur not logically derived from the first.

The “definition” of America as “Judeo-Christian” has a fairly recent history advanced by those who wish it were so. Trusting in a “Christian God” as well as believing in liberty were … Read the rest

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  My second nominee for last week’s most scary people in the news is Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a brilliant, Lebanese-born scholar, mathematician, epistemologist, and best-selling author who is scary for reasons different from Malik Zulu Shabazz’ scariness. 

Shabazz is scary because he’s a dangerous black supremacist.  Taleb is scary because he validates the opinion of millions of people who believe the President of the United States hasn’t a clue as to what he’s doing.

  Taleb is the author of The Black Swan, the Impact of the Highly Improbable.  The Black Swan Theory” refers “to unexpected events of large magnitude and consequence … Read the rest

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Lots of news is scary nowadays but some news is scarier than other news. My first nominee for last week’s scariest people in the news:

  Malik Zulu Shabazz: Readers of this blog and of other conservative websites should be familiar with Shabazz but few others are, and there’s a reason for that.

The rabid, Jew- hater Shabazz is the notorious national chairman of the radical New Black Panther Party which has been on a few news wires of late because of revelations of black racism in our Justice Department and the attempts to muzzle DoJ attorneys J. Christian Adams and … Read the rest

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Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, and vile slander and vicious bile may be the surest evidence of  fear, at least on the part of leftists.

We saw that trick played out against Sarah Palin in 2008, a tactical pattern which continues to this day demonstrating continued terror  of her presidential candidacy in 2012.  We’re witnessing comparable leftist slander and bile now with respect to the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from the state of Delaware, Christine O’Donnell and, indeed, of the whole Tea Party Movement.

That tactic of marginalization, defamation, and demonization of opponents is excerpted … Read the rest

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“The Common Law is the Will of Mankind Issuing from the Life of the People.”

That quotation tops the new website of the Department of Justice.  Now devoid of the patriotic red, white, and blue colors of the Ashcroft days, the new site is a study in black motifs.  Whether the quotation is intended to be a motto, a slogan, or whether it was simply used to fill up the top of the website, it’s an interesting 15 words coming from the Barack Obama-Eric Holder DOJ. 

As Bruce Cunningham of  AmericanThinker.com points out, the quotation is from C. Wilfred Jenks, … Read the rest

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