Category — For The Record

Good old MSNBC. The cable network that manages ratings that are barely above those of the Shoelace Channel, managed to stir up a little noise recently with one of their promotional ads. For those who are unfamiliar with MSNBC’s marketing campaign, “Lean Forward” (and really, who would be?), the ads feature various network hosts talking about something that makes no sense (much like regular MSNBC programming). For example, one ad features host Rachel Maddow standing on top of the Hoover Dam talking about how America doesn’t have small things in its future, it has big things. Clearly she was talking about food stamp enrollment (big and getting way bigger), the White House entertainment budget (Sequester? What sequester?), or the national debt (much too large to fit inside the Hoover Dam). She couldn’t have been talking about things like dams. There isn’t a liberal this side of Martha’s Vineyard that wouldn’t be lining up to sue everybody at the slightest hint of a Hoover Dam-sized project. And Rachel, you’re on top of the Hoover Dam, don’t lean forward too much, it’s a long way down.   Read the rest of this entry »

Margaret Thatcher’s death has particular poignancy for America today. She not only understood the socialist mentality, she articulated it in terms accessible to everyone. Would that members of the Republican Party had her acuity and clarity.   Read the rest of this entry »

Many scribes already have or soon will incorporate the oft repeated phrase “Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it." Yet, I don’t think that applies here. The economic crisis isn’t history, it’s an hour ago. It’s not like being an adult and not placing your hand on a hot stove because you recall doing that as a very young child. It hurt and you burned your hand. Rather, it’s putting your hand on a hot stove, realizing that it hurt and you burned your hand, yet immediately telling yourself, “That stove is really hot, I think I burned my hand so I’d better touch it again.”   Read the rest of this entry »

To all the mindless sheeple who traipse around self-righteous and self-glorified, eager to embrace the next perversion d’ jour? To the ones who “care” Eric has only one non-accepting thing to say.   Read the rest of this entry »

In his new book, Delbanco traces the development of colleges in the American colonies. He begins in1636 when Puritan emigrants established a New England college and named it after its benefactor, John Harvard. A fund appeal to prospective donors in England said the college would “advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity.”   Read the rest of this entry »

These are exciting times for the European country of Cyprus; the country is broke, its banks have no money and many depositors will have less money when the banks reopen – whenever that is. The tiny island of Cyprus is about the size of the Kennedy compound but, we understand, with much better manners. European officials agreed over the weekend to a bailout deal that would keep the Cyprus financial system afloat, kind of, and the country in the Eurozone, sort of. That bailout and a 32 ounce soda will get you a visit from Mayor Bloomberg’s calorie cops, but that’s another story entirely.   Read the rest of this entry »

Here's a bit of cheer. Victor Davis Hanson is a smart guy. Here's hoping he's correct in this analysis.   Read the rest of this entry »

Unaware of the wiles of the snake-in-the-grass 
And the fate of the maiden who topes, 
She lowered her standards by raising her glass, 
 Her courage, her eyes and his hopes. 
She sipped it, she drank it, she drained it, she did! 
 He promptly refilled it again, 
 And he said as he secretly carved one more notch 
 On the butt of his gold-headed cane, Have some Madeira, m'dear. This administration and its minions have been caught in so many distortions, exaggerations and just plain lies that keeping track is becoming a full time job. Here are a few more to add to the ever-growing list.   Read the rest of this entry »

Our very own Curtice Mang will be on with the good folks at The Right War on FTR Radio on Wednesday, 3/13, at 11:00 pm EST, 8:00 pm PST (that’s 8:00 pm Arizona too) talking about his book.   Read the rest of this entry »

In a story that broke on Tuesday, the legal standard known as "arbitrary and capricious" was used to describe the nanny impulses of New York's Mayor in his recent campaign to protect New Yorker's from their own inclinations, by banning large sodas.   Read the rest of this entry »