They’re baaack!  No, not the seventeen year locusts but a worse blight, the blight of the anti-Christians which at this time of year takes the form of the annual assault on Christmas.  And they are far more destructive than any locusts.

The first evidence that the annual War on Christmas had resumed was detected at the New Jersey end of the Lincoln Tunnel. 

The obviously well-heeled if not even moderately-healed group, American Atheists, got together some big bucks to erect a billboard on US495 announcing in bold letters that any first grader could read just before Christmas that, “You KNOW … Read the rest

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   There are leaks and there are leaks, there are floods and there are floods, there are tsunamis and there are tsunamis and even though “WikiLeaks” flows from the tongue somewhat more fluidly that “WikiTsunamis,” what happened over the weekend can only be described as a diplomatic tsunami of epic proportions. 

The chief difference between that criminal release of purloined documents and a literal tsunami was that the leak has had precedents and the United States knew it was on the way, even if it acted as if it were impotent to prevent or de-fuse it. 

Without solely assigning responsibility to … Read the rest

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   Late comedian Red Skelton’s recitation and explication of “The Pledge of Allegiance” may be an oldie, but it’s still a goodie, no matter how hokie it seems in today’s jaded age, to today’s jaded youth especially. 

It’s a simple presentation by a simple man, not simple in any pejorative sense, but simple in the sense of a low-key, basic, gentle man, and a gentleman who, at the same time was a complex, troubled, concerned, and very patriotic man.

His video recitation of the “Pledge” may be seen here: http://tiny.cc/r9u48, the complete text here: http://tiny.cc/bmeeg.  The latter website urges … Read the rest

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I felt proud of my older daughter on Thanksgiving Day.  I didn’t especially feel pride in the first things Jennifer did that day, namely arising at 4 a.m., rousing my two granddaughters from their slumber, and taking the Long Island Rail Road into New York City just to see a parade.  That, I felt, bordered on lunacy even if it was Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, but what do I know? 

My younger daughter, Jeannie, got up at the same hour on Black Friday just to go shopping which was certifiable lunacy but, again, what do I know? 

Anyway, Jennifer and … Read the rest

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In terms of sheer revulsion, the actions of some student nitwits attending the taxpayer-supported University of Texas at San Antonio are no match for how some people of the formerly great state of Texas treated the rape of a 16 year old high school student at Silsbee High School. 

In that matter, outlined in “The Formerly Great State of Texas, Part One,” said student, identified only as Hillaire, endured not only the pain and humiliation of being raped by fellow student, Rakheem Jamal Bolton and his cohort in crime, Christian Paul Rountree,   but then was subjected to rejection by her … Read the rest

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    I used to respect, deeply respect and admire, the Lone Star State.   Now I’m beginning to wonder if that respect and admiration are still warranted. 

Two stories out of Texas give pause and cause wonder as to what in the name of Sam Houston is going on down there! 

Pretty, white, 16 year old Texan high school student and cheer leader Hillaire made the news not for being a a pretty, white high school cheer leader but for refusing to cheer for fellow student, black basketball player, Rakheem Jamal Bolton, who had raped her.

Hillaire didn’t rant and rave against … Read the rest

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I don’t read a real daily newspaper.  I have to read Newsday. 

Ever since the old Long Island Press bit the dust and followed the lead of New York City dailies, the Journal-American, the Daily Mirror, the Herald Tribune, et al. and succumbed to corporate mismanagement and exorbitant union demands, all we Long Islanders have left is the pseudo-newspaper, Newsday.  

It’s a sad state of affairs, I tell ya! 

I had high hopes for that liberal rag after its circulation department was caught with very liberally, illegally, inflating its readership numbers and then after conservative … Read the rest

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   If Obama and his henchmen in the media weren’t so goldarn pathethic, they’d be deliriously hilarious.

One website speculated that our president, who also pretends to be our commander-in-chief, “was thinking of recruiting corpses from the cult movie Night of the Living Dead for the military and had walking zombies on his mind” when he invented a neologism at the last National Prayer Breakfast.  Or maybe it was an attack of sheer terror at the thought of the word prayer that inspired him to say “corpseman,” not once but twice in his address, showing it was not a mere slip … Read the rest

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Dirty Dave Letterman is a contemptible creature.  In various posts on this website, I’ve documented the bases for his licentiousness, his twisted, sniping attacks on all things conservative, his partisan, servile worship of all things liberal.  

On Thanksgiving Eve, Letterman didn’t come close to achieving a personal redemption from his demons or compensating for his ”comical” misrepresentations over the years but he did accomplish an admirable feat, largely by keeping his mouth shut. 

        His primary guest that night was 25 year old Hiawatha, Iowa native, Staff Sgt. Salvatore Augustine Giunta, the only living recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, … Read the rest

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Since I’m a tad lazy this time of year, as well as at other times of the year, I’ve trotted out the following, with updates, every Thanksgiving time since, well, what we should be giving thanks for on Thursday are immutable and not subject to the vagaries of new family or national worries.

Most of us have a great deal to give thanks for and those living in America who don’t feel they don’t feel thankful right now should reflect on what their national birthright has afforded them: 

.   We should give thanks that we are alive and, hopefully, healthy.  … Read the rest

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