When I saw the headline of this LiveWire item I was all prepping to knock Rick Santorum thinking he was living in the past and trying to relitigate how best to exploit “You didn’t build that!” Alas, I ended up kind of agreeing with him because his basic point was ‘Hey Jackasses, Not everyone is a small business owner!’
Fascinating piece on how progressives, in the US and worldwide, are falling in love with Pope Francis.
With full cognizance of the human toll of the Syrian civil war, I just wanted to say that I really wish the White House would not have taken this step. It seems like a small step – basically small arms to a totally disorganized insurgency that now seems to be on the ropes. But these slopes tend to be very slippery. And my gut feel is that this is being driven not by a clear or concerted strategy but rather by being pinned down by earlier statements and slowly giving way to outside analysts, talkative senators and allies who, inevitably, will not share much of any of the burden of an expanding intervention. Read More
Popular Communist party-backed paper on the mainland says Snowden could be useful to China.
So what do you do if you’re saddled with a billion-dollars-a-year gun manufacturer and can’t find any willing buyers?
Not terribly surprising since she’s been heading in this direction for a while. But in discussing why she wasn’t interested in being New Jersey’s interim senate appointment, former New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman basically said no one likes this current GOP.
On why no other viable Republicans seem to want to run, Whitman said, “A lot of them…are saying, ‘this Republican party isn’t really the one that I really believe in, and how well would I do in Washington with a leadership [that’s] looking for, again and again, more party loyalty than necessarily policy changes?’ And so people have said, ‘I’ve got other ways that I can contribute.'”
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Let’s not mince words. It’s hard being a white person in America. I hadn’t noticed this but that’s what everyone seems to say. So I was struck when a group of stories came together today in what seemed like a serendipitous way. Read More
11 year old Sebastien De La Cruz sings Star-Spangled Banner at NBA finals game, gets deluged by racist tweets telling him to go back to Mexico.